by Team Spectrum Books | Aug 14, 2021 | Astronomy and Space Research
Researchers from the University of Maryland and Tohoku University have identified that Mercury has a large and solid-iron inner core than its mantle, measuring some 2,000 kilometres almost as large as that of Earth. The study reveals that Sun’s magnetism is the...
by Team Spectrum Books | Apr 15, 2021 | Astronomy and Space Research
On March 18, 2021, a scientific study, tilled ‘the MUSE Extremely Deep Field: The cosmic web in emission at high redshift’, was published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. As per the study, scientists have captured images of ‘cosmic web’ for the first time...
by Team Spectrum Books | Mar 7, 2021 | Astronomy and Space Research
When a dying star collapses inward into an infinitely small point under the pressure of its own weight, it forms a black hole. The gravitational field of black holes are so powerful that even light cannot escape its pull. Black holes that have masses more than...
by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 8, 2021 | Astronomy and Space Research
The Geminids meteor shower, believed to be the strongest of the year 2020, was active from December 4 to 20, 2020, with December 13 and 14 considered to be the best nights for viewing them (some meteor activity could still be visible in the days before and after this...
by Team Spectrum Books | Jan 10, 2021 | Astronomy and Space Research
On November 16, 2020, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, namely, Resilience lifted off from NASA’s ‘Launch Complex 39A’, Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying a crew of the four astronauts, Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker (USA), and Soichi Noguchi (Japan)...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 26, 2020 | Astronomy and Space Research
On December 1, 2020, Australia’s national science agency informed that a new telescope located in outback Australia, i.e., a has mapped three million galaxies in a record breaking time of just 300 hours. This type of surveys of the sky earlier took 10 years to...
