Tag: Astronomy
If you get up early tomorrow/stay up really late tonight, you can catch the shortest total lunar eclipse of the century. The Earth’s shadow will create the “blood moon” effect, where atmospheric distortion causes the moon to appear red and eerie. The total eclipse will last only four minutes and forty-three seconds and won’t be […]
On Friday, people in the Arctic’s Faroe Islands and Svalbard witnessed the special celestial event known as a total solar eclipse, in which the moon completely blocked out the sun for a few hours in the middle of the day. Large parts of Europe, northern Africa and northern Asia also enjoyed a partial eclipse, providing […]
Astronomers are hyped after finding that there may up to nine dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy. A dwarf galaxy, the smallest type of galaxy, is a cluster of at least 5,000 stars. Though scientists predict that there are a lot of dwarf galaxies around our own massive galaxy, they are notoriously hard to […]
Business Insider reports that amateur astronomers digging through thousands of web-based Milky Way Project noticed yellow clusters in some images taken from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers believe that the yellow balls are an early part of the evolution of massive star formations. “The yellow balls are a missing link between the very young embryonic […]
