Tag: astronomers

In February 2018, SpaceX launched the first two test satellites from the Starlink project. The delivery to orbit was successfully carried out on February 22, 2018, using a Falcon 9 rocket. The first batch of sixty satellites was launched on May 23, 2019. The satellites successfully reached an orbit ...

Perhaps the biggest question in all of the cosmos is that of life beyond Earth. With so many stars and planets, and with the raw ingredients for life found strewn all about the Universe, there are enormous numbers of proverbial lottery tickets out there: chances for life to arise, survive, persist, ...

If you were to look at the Universe on the absolute largest of cosmic scales, you’d find that galaxies clustered together in an enormous web of structure. Individual galaxies form along the threads of the web, with rich groups and clusters of galaxies forming at the nexuses where the threads m...

Perhaps the biggest question in all of the cosmos is that of life beyond Earth. With so many stars and planets, and with the raw ingredients for life found strewn all about the Universe, there are enormous numbers of proverbial lottery tickets out there: chances for life to arise, survive, persist, ...

Over time, greater numbers, types, and varieties of these phenomena were seen: transient events, where objects in the night sky are seen to change over time. One type of transient event that must occur would be when a Sun-like star begins to run out of its core fuel, expanding and swelling to man...

Ever since I gazed at the stars as a kid, I’ve been hooked on the wonders of space. From black holes swallowing stars to explosions that light up the universe, it’s all mind-blowing! My childhood fascination led me to study physics and later specialize in astronomy. Now, as a full...