When you see that first grey hair or start noticing some small crows feet, you’ll do anything to slow down the aging process. Anti-wrinkle cream, healthy eating, exercise, these are all well and good. But what if there was a simpler option, like space travel? This isn’t as impossible as it seems, take astronaut Scott …
Polaris, Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Vega – these are just some of the most famous stars in our sky, but how exactly did they get these names? And how exactly are stars named? According to astronomers, there are around 200 billion trillion stars in the universe – that’s a lot of stars! Is it actually possible …
The sun is situated at the center of the solar system and whilst it may share many similar characteristics with other stars, it is far brighter when we view it from Earth due to its close proximity, comparatively. The sun is primarily formed from hydrogen and helium plasma with matter that has been constructed from …
The moon has just exploded. What happens next? Are there going to be huge tidal waves that wipe out coastal cities? Are there going to be huge chunks of the moon that fly towards us and collide with the earth? Are we all going to die? Luckily we won’t even know the moon has exploded …
Stars are incredible things. Our own Sun is perhaps one of the most famous stars on our planet; without it, we would quite literally not exist. Stars shine up our sky; they give us a chance to make wishes on them as they shoot across the sky, and they make our world far more interesting. …
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the known universe. Their existence was first discussed and debated by Albert Einstein and Schwarzschild during the desolation of World War 1. Since then, the concept of black holes has transformed from an idea to something we have detected in reality, with the first real …
Stars are some of the most impressive and gorgeous objects within the universe. From our vantage point, looking up at the cosmos from the earth, we can see more stars than we can count, but that’s not even a fraction of how many stars there are in the universe. With so many stars, you may …
At night, when the sun goes down, it is very common to see stars in the night sky. However, you may have wondered why we don’t see any stars during the day. The answer is very simple. In this article, we will be uncovering the answer to why stars are only visible at night and …
As we know, stars – like our Sun – are burning balls of gas. They burn as a result of thermonuclear reactions which occur deep in their cores. There are theories that Jovian-class planets – large planets also referred to as gas giants – could be turned into a star. In our solar system alone …
Supernova explosions are some of the most impressive celestial phenomena that we have ever witnessed from our place in the Universe. Through a telescope, Supernova look like gorgeous explosions of light across stars, among the prettiest and most colorful things an astronomer can go looking for. Upon learning that a Supernova is the massive explosive …
