Astronomy and astrology are often confused due to their similar-sounding names and connection to the study of celestial bodies. However, these two fields are fundamentally different in many areas: approach, methodology, and goals. Although the practices of astrology and astronomy have common roots, today, there is an essential difference between astrology and … Read more
Have you ever looked at the boundless night sky and felt the overwhelming power of nature? The universe is composed of vast space with puzzling beauty and mystery. Its composition created by celestial bodies surpasses the limits of human understanding. It is indeed a limitless unthinkable mystery. Among these mysterious wonders, pulsars, … Read more
The fundamental background energy that permeates all of the space in the universe is known as vacuum energy. It is the zero-point energy that is related to the quantum vacuum and whose effects are believed to have an impact on the behavior of the universe on cosmological scales and have been empirically … Read more
Scientists have been trying to explore the universe and beyond for decades. With the advancement of technology came our ability to probe the fringes of the massive universe and discover many interesting components we may have never even heard of before. In the past three decades, we have found a wide variety … Read more
Some of the oddest and most interesting objects in space are black holes. Because of their enormous density and powerful gravitational pull, not even light can elude them. Scientists believe that there may be well over 100 million black holes in the Milky Way. While black holes also differ in size, scientists … Read more
The universe is indeed home to a lot of mysteries that await to be uncovered. Only 5% of the universe is something we are aware of. An unknown world of new particles and forces lie within the remaining 95%, waiting to be discovered. The cosmos as we know it now has been … Read more
The “fourth state of matter,” following the well-known solid, liquid, and gas phases, is plasma. A plasma is a gas that has reached such a high temperature that some or all of its atoms have been divided into independent moving electrons and ions or both. Ions and/or electrons, which are charged particles, … Read more
In 2009, a team of Japanese researchers reported that a newly discovered primordial blob could be the most enormous object yet identified in the early universe. The gas cloud, which was discovered from a distance of 12.9 billion light-years, could indicate the early phases of galaxy formation when the universe was only … Read more
The Earth’s magnetic field is never completely silent. Satellite data is supporting an explanation for the explosive nature of magnetic storms which are called magnetic explosions. The swirling motion of ionized gases in a mechanism known as a dynamo generates magnetic energy across the Universe – the twisting and folding of the … Read more
As early as 2003, astronomers have presented early evidence of “galactic cannibalism” or a cosmologic phenomenon where a larger galaxy eats one of its smaller neighbors which results in its growth. Recent observations point to the early instances of this merging and cannibalizing phenomenon in the Tucana II ultra-dwarf galaxy. This galactic … Read more