A moonbow (also known as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow produced by moonlight. Other than the difference in the light source, its formation is the same as for a solar rainbow. It is caused by the refraction of light in many water droplets, such as a rain shower or a waterfall, and is always positioned in…
This Strawberry Moon is a special treat because it isn’t an ordinary full moon. It is more of a supermoon, appearing larger and brighter. WHAT IS A ‘STRAWBERRY’ MOON? June’s full moon is commonly known as the strawberry moon. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that each Full Moon of the year goes by several names. In…
Venus takes about 243 Earth days to spin around just once. Because it’s so close to the Sun, a year goes by fast. It takes 225 Earth days for Venus to go all the way around the Sun. That means that a day on Venus is a little longer than a year on Venus. It…
Discovery of water on the Moon In September this year, the Chandrayaan-2 mission made for an international spectacle for its technological leap — before losing its Vikram lander. But its success came on the back of India’s first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, which entered the lunar orbit exactly 11 years ago.For most of the 20th century, scientists thought the…
Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens? On October 19, 2017, a Canadian astronomer named Robert Weryk was reviewing images captured by a telescope known as Pan-starrs1 when he noticed something strange, an aliens. The telescope is situated atop Haleakalā, a ten-thousand-foot volcanic peak on the island of Maui. It scans the sky each night, recording…
10 surprises about our solar system Remember those Styrofoam models of the solar system we made in elementary school? The solar system is even cooler than that! Here are 10 things you might not know. 1. The hottest planet isn’t closest to the sun. Many people know that Mercury is the closest planet to the…
What Are Meteor Showers? Meteor showers are events seen from a planet’s surface, where numerous meteors are seen within a short period of time radiating from roughly the same area of sky. Like most typical meteors streaking through the night sky. Those which are part of a meteor shower tend to consist of small pieces of…
Meteorites that helped form Earth may have formed in the outer solar system Earth is believed to have formed partly from carbonaceous meteorites, which are thought to come from outer main-belt asteroids. Telescopic observations of outer main-belt asteroids suggest that they formed with ammonia ice which is only stable at very low temperatures. A new…
Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens? On October 19, 2017, a Canadian astronomer named Robert Weryk was reviewing images captured by a telescope known as Pan-starrs1 when he noticed something strange, an aliens. The telescope is situated atop Haleakalā, a ten-thousand-foot volcanic peak on the island of Maui. It scans the sky each night,…
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is. Three of our fundamental forces of nature — the electromagnetic and strong and weak nuclear forces — known to be quantum in nature. However, the oldest known fundamental force, gravity, has only been shown…
