A partial solar eclipse began at 10:08 BST in London, with the maximum eclipse at 10:59 was seen across the UK about midday. Solar eclipses occur when Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth casting a shadow. The eclipse was first visible in Iceland at 9:58BST before it passed over the northern hemisphere. We…
The Arctic Circle spanning the border of Canada, Alaska, and Russia, where the above amazing video was shot which lasts only a few seconds, revealing spectacular views. This phenomenon can be seen only for 36 seconds once a year when the moon appears in all its splendor and then does a disappearing act. It is…
TIM PEAKE – BRITISH ASTRONAUT DOING A TOUR ABOUT LIFE IN SPACE AND ITS PREPARATIONS. Tim Peake’s touring talks on space travel go on into April 2023. In a two-hour talk with an interval, he was at The London Palladium on Sunday 4th September where – with videos, photographs, and a memorable accompaniment of top…
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the World’s largest and most powerful space telescope took infrared images of the Solar System’s biggest planet, Jupiter, in July 2022. The images revealed auroras, giant storms, moons, and rings surrounding Jupiter in detail that astronomers have described as “incredible”. Planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of…
A European Space Agency mission’s Mars Express has captured rare images from the Valles Marineris, which is ten times longer, twenty times wider, and five times deeper than the Grand Canyon in the US, deep inside the largest known Canyon in the Solar System. The photos were taken in April by the Mars Express’…
The gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our galaxy known as Sagittarius A, the object is a staggering four million times the mass of our Sun. The hole resides in the central dark region, circled by the light coming from super-heated gas accelerated by immense gravitational forces. The ring is roughly the…
The Longest partial lunar eclipse of the century when the Earth lies directly between the Sun and the Moon and the Moon lies in the shadow of the Earth. People in the UK are not able to see every part of the eclipse but will still be able to see lunar eclipse at totality when the…
NASA has released a stunning video of its Perseverance rover landing on Mars, with seven cameras dedicated to recording the landing. The Imagery represents vital feedback for engineers as they look to improve still further the technologies used to put probes on the surface of the Red planet. https://youtu.be/HS1CWAkbRu0
Perseverance rover lands on Mars and sends new images of Mars released by NASA. NASA’ Perseverance rover two meters above the surface of Mars as it gave more details of the mission. The US S4ace agency’s robot successfully landed on Mars just before 1pm local time on Thursday.e
IN 2020, 28 fastest days were recorded, with Earth completing its rotations around its axis milliseconds quicker than average, according to scientists. The shortest day was July 19, when the earth completed on spin 1. 4602 milliseconds faster than 86, 400 seconds. Before 2020, the shortest day was noted on July 5, 2005, when the…