MessageToEagle.com – One of the most recognizable constellations in the sky is Orion, the Hunter. Among Orion’s best-known features is the “belt,” consisting of three bright stars in a
MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers used the LCOGT (Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope network) to detect light scattered by tiny particles (called Rayleigh scattering), through the atmosphere of an exoplanet, called GJ
MessageToEagle.com – Mercury can experience meteor showers as Comet Encke periodically peppers the planet’s tenuous atmosphere with dust, new research suggests. Earth has several meteor showers every year, generally
MessageToEagle.com – A team of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured the most detailed images ever of the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. These observations
MessageToEagle.com – Built about 2,000 years ago by people of the Hopewell culture, the Newark Earthworks served as been some kind of astronomical observatory designed to align with
MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astrophysicists led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist has for the first time witnessed a black hole swallowing a star and ejecting a
MessageToEagle.com – Can you guess the subject of each of these pictures? How many will you get right? Test your friends and family to see who knows their space
MessageToEagle.com – The mysterious tilt of the moon’s orbit is due to gravitational tugs it received from giant, close-passing rocks that eventually slammed into the Earth, new research suggests.
MessageToEagle.com – The hottest white dwarf ever discovered in our Galaxy has been identified by astronomers at the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, Germany. With a temperature of 250,000
MessageToEagle.com – A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behavior. NASA’s Kepler mission had monitored the star for four years, observing
MessageToEagle.com – Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn’s famous halo, new research suggests. In a few tens of millions of years, the Red Planet may completely
MessageToEagle.com – Long filaments of dark matter, or the so-called “hairs” exist and the solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought, according to a new study conducted
MessageToEagle.com – This week, between 11 p.m. and midnight local time, the constellation immortalizing one of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology — Perseus — will pass directly overhead.
MessageToEagle.com – One hundred years ago this month, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, one of the most important scientific achievements in the last century. A
MessageToEagle.com – Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long. The images were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera as the distance
MessageToEagle.com – Thousands of planetary nebulae are continuously observed and studied, but astronomers have long struggled to measure one of their key properties – their distance. Now, astronomers, based
MessageToEagle.com – Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids. However, in the
MessageToEagle.com – Expedition 46/47 prime crew members Timothy Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and
MessageToEagle.com – The greatest secrets of the Universe are usually revealed when astronomers use the combined power of multiple telescopes to reveal the secrets of the Universe – and this image
MessageToEagle.com – Abraham Lincoln is best known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific
MessageToEagle.com – University of Arizona researchers captured the first photo of a planet in the making, a planet residing in a gap in LkCa15’s disk – located in the Taurus
MessageToEagle.com – Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now. Researchers are developing an “electric sail” (e-sail) propulsion
MessageToEagle.com – Take a look at a photo captured by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The instrument captured this scene on November 5, 2015. We see cloudy
MessageToEagle.com – A horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy has been discovered by astronomers using ESO’s VISTA survey telescope. By discovering
MessageToEagle.com – Solar flares are massive explosions of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere. Experts have warned that even a single ‘monster’ solar flare could cause up to $2 trillion
