Get over with New Year celebrations as harvest festivals Makar Sankranti, Lohri, Pongal, Bihu, Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti and a row of festivals are upon us. Marking the end of the winter solstice, Makar Sankranti, the harvest festival of Hindus, is celebrated by a pooja followed by flying kites, engaging[Read More…]
Tag: Solar system
Farout, most distant object in solar system
Washington: Astronomers have discovered the most distant object in the solar system, a dwarf planet about 120 astronomical units from the sun. Its distance is 120 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun — so far away that its discoverers called it “Farout” though its official name is[Read More…]
Astronomers find a treasure trove of planets hiding in dust
Bejing: “Super-Earths” and Neptune-sized planets could be forming around young stars in much greater numbers than scientists thought, a new research by an international team of astronomers suggests. The findings, based on a survey of young stars in a star-forming region in the constellation Taurus, showed many of them to[Read More…]
NASA’s next planet-hunting mission starts next week
Washington: NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess aimed at detecting planets outside our solar system, is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on April 16. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier around 4.02 a.m. on April 17 (India time) from Cape Canaveral Air[Read More…]
Jupiter is not just the biggest planet in the solar system; its the oldest too!
In a recent discovery, researchers have found out that Jupiter is the oldest planet in the universe, besides being the biggest. Researcher, Thomas S. Kruijer, says “this is the first time that we can say something about Jupiter based on measurements done in the lab.” Similar work was done on[Read More…]
