Jakarta – The electrical effects of thunderstorms are not limited to the upper atmosphere. Near the ground, the Earth’s atmosphere comes alive with powerful electric fields that accelerate particles, spinning electrons in a way that makes atoms glow with gamma rays. From a mountaintop in Armenia, scientists have seen this mysterious meteorological phenomenon up close. … Read more
The North American space agency NASA sent the probe this Monday The Clipper of Europewill study Europa, a moon of Jupiter that has an ocean under its icy surface with conditions that could be favorable for ocean life as known. The space probe was launched from the NASA center in Florida at 5:06 pm (Lisbon … Read more
A comet can be seen with the naked eye on Sunday in Portugal, in a short window of opportunity that opens at 7:35pm (Lisbon time). This is comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, discovered in January 2023 by telescopes at the Tsuchinshan Observatory, in China, and confirmed by the ATLAS telescope in South Africa. Speaking to Lusa, … Read more
Jakarta – The James Webb Space Telescope managed to find a planet that is in the habitable zone. Astronomers say that there is likely water flowing on the planet. The planet is the exoplanet K2-18b. Based on research results from space observatories and astronomical instruments, this planet has several features that support human life, one … Read more
2. Voyager 2 The Voyager 2 spacecraft is the twin of Voyager 1 and was launched just 16 days apart. Both of these probes fly past planets outside the solar system. Until, finally, it passes the farthest limit of the heliosphere, which is the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere that separates the solar system … Read more
Launching a NASA page on Wednesday (02/10/2024), the sun is a medium-sized star formed by very hot gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. Stars shine by burning hydrogen into helium in their cores. When its hydrogen fuel runs out, the star begins to burn helium. This causes the amount of energy released by the sun to … Read more
Liputan6.com, Jakarta – New research from the Caltech team to be published provides additional evidence to support its existence ninth planet. In an issue published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, Michael Brown, said that it is highly unlikely that there is no planet nine. Announced … Read more
The engineer Khalfan bin Sultan Al Nuaimi revealed: The head of the International Astronomical Center in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, announced that one of the center’s directors was able to find an asteroid that was located in the asteroid belt of the solar system.
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — After being a puzzle for 843 years, the explosion of a star no supernova in 1181 that left a trail of light for months to come sky the night was finally resolved. At that time, this amazing object looked as bright as Saturn in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese history … Read more
Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — Researchers found a comet that walked out or was ejected Solar system after passing The planet Saturn at close range. Referring from Space.com, on Friday (2/8), the speed of the comet that threw Saturn out of the solar system reached more than 10,800 kilometers per hour. The celestial body was named … Read more