Astronomy is an engrossing and fulfilling hobby that can bestow you, your family, and friends loads of fun. It’s for everyone who yearns to feed their wonder about the night sky, gaze upon beautiful sights high above, or witness spectacular events like eclipses or meteor showers that will provide a new sense … Read more
Its name came from a Latin word meaning mist, fog, or a cloud, but a nebula isn’t just a cloud but an enormous cloud of dust and gas in space between stars that sometimes acts as a nursery for new stars. Some nebulae (plural of nebula) are from gas and dust thrown … Read more
The Milky Way galaxy and the entire Universe have billions and trillions of celestial objects, some are identified, and some are yet unknown to humans. With the help of Science and the love of astronomical studies of some researchers and scientists, we have unfolded the existing objects millions of light-years away in … Read more
While a famed French astronomer Charles Messier was hunting for celestial objects during the 18th century, he noticed several “nebulous objects” while surveying the night sky. He decided to catalog those commonly mistaken objects as comets so others would not make the same mistake. The resulting list, known as Messier Catalog, now … Read more
When you came across an “alien planet” on reading material, the first thing that would probably come into your mind is a literal world full of aliens or an alien habitat. However, the “alien planet” is not what you think it is. Alien planets or exoplanets that are excluded from the solar … Read more
On October 13, 1773, while Charles Messier was hunting for celestial objects, he found this spiral galaxy full of beauty with its graceful and winding arms appearing like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. It was called M51 or known as Whirlpool galaxy. Its arms are actually stars and gas laced … Read more
At the beginning of our solar system’s creation, a massive billowing cloud of dust and gas circled around the Sun, and dust particles collided with each other and formed into a rock until they ultimately reached the size of a boulder. This process formed the planets of our solar system and tens … Read more
Large Magellanic Cloud Named after the explorer, and Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, whose crew discovered these companion galaxies to the Milky Way during the first voyage worldwide (1519–22). It is called the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC for short. It is not a cloud but a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way … Read more
With over 200 billion galaxies in the whole Universe, the Milky Way is the most famous of all galaxies as it comprises our Solar System. It is the most significant to humans and all living organisms as it is the home sweet home. Let’s take a look at the Milky Way. How … Read more
The Earth’s Moon is probably one of the biggest and brightest celestial objects that our naked eye can see. The bright and round Moon itself could already capture everyone’s attention, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Our Moon consists of many things like mountains, craters, seas of lava, … Read more