Mystery of Binary Star System

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Binary Star Sirius A and B

Binary Star: Sirius A and B
( Credit : NASA, Hubble )

Whenever we hear the word ‘binary star’, the picture of the mysterious world comes into mind where two suns are rising from two opposite directions. These types of scenes are amazing and can be seen in movies and acts. Do you know that this type of phenomenon may be possible in the real world? Our universe is full of stars which move around each other and appearing as binary stars.

Binary star systems are the stars which move around their common center of mass. The brighter star is called primary star and dimmer one is called secondary or Continue reading →

Amazing Outer Planets with no Surface

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Mars

Mars. (Credit: NASA)

Earth is a beautiful planet which has beautiful mountains, valley, rivers, lands, lake and plants etc. All these things are present on the surface of Earth. Just imagine the Earth without any surface; you can’t imagine life on Earth if the surface is not present.

The inner planets of outer solar system have rocky surface like Earth means, Mercury, Venus and Mars have surfaces with mountains and valleys. But do you know that outer Continue reading →

Herschel Space Telescope Closes its Eye due to Heat

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Andromeda Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy By Hershel space Observatory

Europe’s Herschel Space Observatory which was the largest infrared telescope has stopped working due to exhaustion of its supply of liquid helium which was acting as coolant. With the ending of Helium, it’s more than three years of pioneering observations also come to end.

Herschel was launched in May 2009 by Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana and it’s detectors were designed to pick up the light from celestial objects like stars, planets, comets, galaxies, moons etc. with infrared wavelength as Continue reading →

Location of Famous Nebulae in Night Sky

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Night sky is the place where lots of amazing and unbelievable object can be seen. You must have seen the images of beautiful nebulae which appears so much attractive. These images are captured by large telescope. Do you know that you can locate these nebulae in your night sky? I know that you will not find it so amazing by naked eyes. It is also interesting to identify the location of these nebulae which are present in our night sky during these days. Continue reading →

Exploring Night Sky with Stellarium

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Sky with Constellations

Sky with Constellations
Credit: Stellarium.

Do you like stargazing? Our sky which is full of various colorful and twinkling stars, fascinate nearly everybody. Some people are able to recognize its beauty while some do not. It is not because they don’t like stars perhaps their questions remains unanswered which turn up into frustration or sometimes they do not get proper guidance.

You also must have felt the problems while stargazing and got stuck up in following questions: