08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
...of their brightness and easy visibility in the night sky the Magellanic Clouds were discovered in antiquity, astronomers... "Having marked the locations of the Gaia RR Lyrae on the sky, we were surprised to see a narrow bridge-like structure connecting ...
19 July 2017
Mayak satellite set to shine the brightest
... for the project. But aside from lighting up the night-sky, the people behind Mayak say that the satellite is not just...Mayak will only remain visible for about a month in the night sky, however there is a chance it could shine brighter for longer...
20 July 2018
Made-to-order meteor showers available soon say Japanese company
... 2020 the company want to showcase their “Sky Canvas” by lighting up the skies over the western Japanese city of Hiroshima; a... good weather, landscape and cultural assets. After that, the sky is the limit, apparently. "We are targeting the whole world...
03 May 2019
Debris from India's ASAT test worse than predicted
... re-entered the atmosphere, but debris at much higher altitudes will take substantially longer to be removed from the skies - possibly up to ten times as long. And that's not the worst of it; some of that debris is now suspected to be in an orbit...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...of dark energy by collecting high-precision images of the southern sky. January marked the sixth year that DES has been collecting ...new Vera C. Rubin Observatory, will survey the entire southern sky and will be able to detect even fainter and more ...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
...treated to spectacular shows of luminescence that light up the night sky predominantly at mid to high latitudes. We know them as ...and from sodium (Na) and oxygen (O) atoms in Earth’s skies and it is this latter atom, oxygen, that gives terrestrial...
