By: Camille M. Carlisle | March 24, 2015 NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has detected dust high in Mars’s atmosphere and auroras across the planet’s northern hemisphere. The bat-winged MAVEN spacecraft has now been in orbit for six months, dipping in and out of the Red Planet’s atmosphere in a looping orbit that slowly shifts around the …
The attached photo was taken by Johan Retief on Monday 15 December 2014, at approximately 22h36. The comet is currently in the constellation Puppis. It is in an attitude where the head of the comet points towards earth and the tails stretches out away from the Earth, click on the following website to view the …
This artist’s impression shows schematically the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures that they inhabit that observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed. These alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the universe. The large-scale structure is shown in blue and quasars are …
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Here’s what an eclipse would look like if you could see it up close. The main eclipse (at right) occurs when the larger but dimmer companion star, a K2 orange subgiant, partially eclipses Algol A, a more massive but smaller main sequence star. A small secondary eclipse (left) is observed when the B star passes around …
