https://youtu.be/yvQgisEBql0 NASA’s official account about Earth’s Moon shared a picture of the “Great Conjunction of planets Jupiter and Saturn as seen from the Moon. “Unlike Sun, that’s no star, It’s two planets! #The Great Conjuntion looks great from the Moon”. Saturn and Jupiter were the closest in the sky in nearly 400 years.
December 21, marks the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and in 2020 the longest night of the year and the shortest day and also when the sun is at its lowest daily extreme elevation, is also going to be a witness to “ Great Conjunction “ an incredible astronomic event, the rare aligning of…
https://youtu.be/vmVLIDq9wok Scientists and astronomists gathered at Argentina’s Neuquen province to watch a total solar eclipse. The eclipse was visible from a 90km corridor spanning across the Andean mountain range in Argentina to Chile’s southern pacific coast. This is the second eclipse to be visible in South America in the last 18 months, though poor weather…
The Great Conjunction: Jupiter and Saturn are moving from one zodiac sign to another simultaneously on December 21 the longest night of the year, which happens once in 800 years, and the last time such an event happened Henry IV was on the English Throne. For astrologers like Dawn Anne of Astrology answers, the next…
Zhou Chengyu, a 24-year-old female space commander and in charge of the rocket connector system has become a viral sensation on Weibo, social media in China for her work on the Chang’e-5, China’s third successful Moon landing in seven years. China would be the first in more than 40 years to bring lunar samples back…
China’s Chang’e-5 lander captured a panoramic colour photographic view that stretches from the lunar soil directly under its legs all the way out to the horizon. The mission which touched down on Tuesday instantly began gathering samples of rock and dust to send back to Earth dispatched up to an orbiting spacecraft which arri8ve home…
Puerto Rico’s huge telescope at the Arecibo Observatory, suffered a 1000 ft gash to its dish when cable snapped in August and has totally collapsed. The observatory was built in the 1960s, was once the largest of its kind in the world. The National Science Foundation’s Arceibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, known for its studies…
ISRO on Saturday launched EOS-1 , an earth observation satellite, and nine other satellites of international customers onboard the carrier vehicle PSLV-C launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The EOS-01 will be providing agriculture, forestry and disaster management support. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is an medium-lift launch vehicle…
NASA confirmed it found traces of water on a sunlit surface of the Moon for the first time. The discovery made using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Centre. Jim Bridenstine, NASA administrator tweeted “ We confirmed water on the sunlit surface of the Moon…
As Mars lines up with Earth on the same side of the Sun, it is at its biggest and brightest. Every 26 months the pair take up this line up, moving close together before then diverging again on their separate orbit around our star. Tuesday night 13th October sees the actual moment of what astronomers…