On the 8th of December provided that you are blessed with clear skies, don’t hesitate to go out and enjoy a beautiful conjunction between the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. If you turn towards the southwest after sunset, you’ll see the three bodies beautifully aligned…
Lunar eclipses happen on Full Moons, when the Earth stands between the Moon and the Sun and when the Moon enters into the cone of shadow cast by our planet. When the three bodies align in such a way, our natural satellite receives less or…
Radio astronomy is the discipline in astronomy that uses radio waves instead of light to observe and study the sky. Many objects and phenomena in space emit light, visible or invisible, such as infrared and radio signals. ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder) is a…
Urban heavily light-polluted skies are not the ideal for stargazing with a telescope. There are, however, things like the Moon, the planets and even the Sun that can be observed from a city (observing the Sun requires specially designed filters, otherwise serious injuries and permanent…
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral…