Earth’s Twin Planet
In March 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope launched in order to hunt exoplanets, or planets that orbit around distant stars. Till now, Kepler has found about a thousand planets and 21 planets that resemble...
Category: Our Universe
Eagle Nebula: Amazing Pillars of Creation
The Hubble Space Telescope has revisited its most famous image, The Eagle Nebula. In this video, we can see the pictures of Eagle Nebula, or Pillars of Creation, made by using infrared light and...
The New Dwarf Galaxy Has Been Discovered
By using Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, astronomers have found a new galaxy in our closest neighborhood. This galaxy is one-thousandth of the Milky Way galaxy’s mass that has no shape and...
New Secrets of the Most Massive Star, Eta Carinae – NASA
Eta Carinae is the binary star system that represents the most massive stellar system 10.000 light-years away from Earth. In the XIX century, Eta Carinae generated an out of proportion eruption that creates huge...
The 5 Intriguing Space Events in the Coming Year
In the following video, Dr. Ian O’Neil from DNews explores the new space events that will happen in this year. The space exploration in 2015 begins with the New Horizons mission to Pluto and...
Top 10 Pictures of Cosmos in 2014.
This video is a collection of the 10 most beautiful space photographies captured in 2014.
The Night Sky Compilation by Mark Gee
Mark Gee, an astrophotographer, shares with us the highlights of his year. The video is a compilation of his best photography of the night sky taken from different places during 2014.
A Planet with Two Sunsets
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered many exoplanets candidates, and is technically equipped to find the planets as small as our Earth, orbiting around the star the size of our Sun. Throughout this mission, astronomers...
Collision of Galaxies Has Been Often Inevitable
This video represents a collection of images that show galaxies engaged in collisions, or are about to collide. Because of the pull of gravity, the expansion of the Universe is not helping them; gravity...
The List of the 10 Most Incredible Space Discoveries in Our Universe
The following video shows the 10 most fascinating space objects found in the cosmos. The list starts with an Earth-like planet, Gliese 581c, and finishes with the large quasar group found in our Milky...
Mind Blowing Speeds of Space Objects
In our Universe, everything is moving – our planet, our Solar System, our galaxy. The speeds they are moving we can hardly imagine. Compared to them, we are living in a slow-motion world.
Stars and Their Variety: Red Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs, Binary Stars and Triple Star Systems
The years of exploration of the Milky Way have discovered that many stars are not a single star like our Sun, but binary or triple star system, red dwarfs or brown dwarfs. Even the...
Two Closest Potentially Supernovas Are about to Die
In our closest neighborhood, there are two potentially supernovas nearing to its end: Betelgeuse in Orion constellation and a binary star HR8210 in Pegasus constellation. While Betelgeuse is far away from us (about 500...
Exploration of the Glowing Band of the Milky Way
This video shows us how our galaxy looks like through the lens of a telescope. It enables us to travel to the center of the Milky Way, where the mysterious black hole is hiding.
How Large Is Our Universe
The following video demonstrates distances between galaxies and stars in practice. We all know that these distances are huge and are measured in light years, but to gain a perspective on how enormous are...
Can Black Holes Be Used for Space Travel?
The following video explores the possibilities of interstellar travel through the black holes. The key for this is the existence of the wormhole that has the black hole on one end and the white...
Highlights of the December Sky 2014
The following video lists the most important events and highlights for December 2014. The month starts with Mars as a morning star, and Venus will join him later in the month.
How Huge Is the Most Massive Star in Our Universe
This video explains the term “mass” in our Universe. We can easily grasp how massive are the objects in our Solar System only by comparison. If we take Jupiter, as the biggest and most...
