What is IAAC? The International Astronomy and Astrophysics Competition is a global competition for science and astronomy enthusiasts. Online Submission: The competition uses the possibilities of the modern world to allow […]
Star Birth Star birth is, as the physicist Heinz R. Pagels (1939–1988) wrote in 1985, a “veiled and secret event.” Today, it’s well known that star formation takes place deep […]
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at least some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with […]
The first scientifically minded celestial observers included people such as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Johannes Kepler, and Galileo Galilei, who began looking at the sky through telescopes they built. Galileo’s view […]
Many Stars in the milky way spend at least part of their lives in clusters. Clusters are scientifically interesting because all their stars formed around the same time and generally […]
These days, the possibility of finding life “out there” is an integral part of astronomy. The exploration of mars has been spurred in large part by the search for life […]
Ever heard of the Big Bang? No, not the TV show. The beginning of the Universe as we know it. The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model explaining […]
A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias , literally “milky”, a reference […]
Astronomy is the branch of science dealing with the study of celestial objects. It requires various scientific terminologies. Here are a few important ones: Asterism: Any pattern of stars recognizable […]
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one’s expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to […]
A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived outline or pattern, typically representing an animal, mythological person or creature, […]
Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The current known asteroid count is: 1,100,048. Most […]
Meteors, Meteor showers, Meteoroids and Meteorites, sounds very confusing right? They all sound similar but have different meanings. A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. […]
Ever heard of eclipses? I am sure you must have. Ever seen one? If you have then you are very lucky, and if you have observed a total or annular […]
Neptune is the eighth and farthest-known Solar planet from the Sun. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. […]
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