For anything to work in the Universe, energy is required. It lights up our homes, powers our electronics, powers our vehicles, etc. We can get it in lots of ways: By burning fossil fuels, by sunlight hitting Solar Panels, by splitting atoms, etc. But there is a downside to each…

Exoplanets: All About them When you look up at the sky, you can see thousands of stars lighting up the night sky. The stars that we see in the night sky make up only an extremely small fraction of the stars our galaxy contains, hundreds of billions of more stars…

Light is a form of energy. It travels in waves, similar to waves of water in oceans. Except that with light, the waves are made up of electric and magnetic fields. Light is basically a wave of electric and magnetic fields, intertwined. Hence, light is also known as Electromagnetic Radiation. …

Sirius is one of the most famous known stars in the night sky. It lies in the constellation of Canis Major. It is designated as Alpha Canis Majoris, which means that it is the brightest star in the constellation of Canis Major. Sirius is not only the brightest star in…

Like a ball of bright sparkling stars, the Hercules Globular Cluster is one of our night sky’s marvels. It contains over 100,000 stars in it and is located about 25,000 light-years away from Earth. Even at that distance, the globular cluster shines in the sky with an apparent magnitude of…

If you know about the Hubble Space Telescope, you might have heard about the Pillars of Creation. In late 2014, the Hubble Space Telescope scanned an iconic emission nebula known as Messier 16 or the Eagle Nebula. At the heart of the nebula lie 3 pillars of gas and dust…

The Extremely Large Telescope or the ELT is an astronomical project by ESO or the European Southern Observatory. It is a ground-based observatory that aims to improve our understanding of our universe. The ELT will mainly be looking visible and the near-infrared spectrum of light. …

The Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) is an emission nebula located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation of Scorpius. Measuring 80–90 light-years across, the Cat’s Paw Nebula is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way. Hot, young blue stars that are more than 10 times as massive as the Sun are born here. Altogether, the Cat’s Paw Nebula contains approximately tens of thousands of stars. The Cat’s Paw intersects another similarly-sized star-forming region known as NGC 6357 or the Lobster Nebula.

The Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of all the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. It is around 158,200 light-years from Earth and is around 14,000 light-years in diameter. It is the third closest orbiting galaxy to the Milky Way galaxy. It contains 60 Globular Star Clusters, 700 Open…