Cosmic Thinker

The International Space Station (ISS) is a spacecraft that orbits around Earth. It's anything but a place where astronauts live. The space station is additionally a science lab.  Numerous nations cooperated to make it. They additionally cooperate to utilize it. Credit: Wikipedia It is the third brightest object in the sky and can easily be spotted. It looks like a bright fast-moving star like an airplane but it does not blink. It disappears as it enters the earth's shadow. Usually, ISS can be seen in the morning before sunrise or in the evening after sunset. NASA also has a tool: Spot the Station  to find ISS. You can likewise sign up for notifications through email or message. Normally, notifications are conveyed a couple of times every month when the station's orbit is close to your area. There are also other apps to spot ISS like Heavens Above ISS Live Now: link for Android and link for IOS  Both the apps are available in free versions. Credit: Euronews By using a t...

At some point around the year 1837, an abnormal object passed at 1,000 AU from the Sun. (One Astronomical Unit, or AU, is the normal Earth-Sun distance.) For over a century, it proceeded undetected towards the Sun. At last, on October 19, 2017, we saw the guest.   Illustration of Oumuamua Credit: Nasa Oumuamua is nothing like anything else in the solar system. Leaving to the side the properties of its orbit, which solidly nails it down as the interstellar invader it genuinely is, the thing is only an abnormal object. Oumuamua is a few hundred feet in length, yet exceptionally thin, shaped like a huge cigar. The item has a dull red tone to it, alike to the objects found in the far-off edges of our solar system, similar to Pluto . Study Done by Astronomers Astronomers expected the first interstellar guest would be a comet because they are brighter than space rocks, which makes them simpler to spot. In our nearby planet solar system — and probable others — approaching comets begin a l...

At the point when a monstrous star disappeared, cosmologists expected to discover a supernova in its place. However, there wasn't one. photo credit:  Clipart Library I n a system 75 light-years from Earth, there was a big star called PHL-293B. The star was blistering to such an extent that it sparkles precious stone blue and it sparkles 2.5 multiple times more splendidly than our Sun! It was in the last phases of its life and had utilized the majority of its fuel. Researchers were reading it for quite a long time, yet in 2019 when they attempted to consider it, It was not long at its place. The star vanished!  Stars like this one should flicker out suddenly and completely. They normally finish their life in an incredible, brilliant blast— a supernova —leaving behind a recently framed Black Hole . A few researchers accept that PHL-293B became unnova . It implies that the star fell into itself and turned into a black hole without turning into a supernova Check my previous post:...

On the night of 4 July, I was watching the full moon through my binoculars. While I was focusing to witness the beauty of the full moon I saw the transient lunar phenomenon (TLP) It was a red flicker spot just for a second and it was stationary.  The area I saw TLP. What is TLP TLP represents Transient Lunar Phenomenon. It is exceptionally uncommon. They are surprising blazes and different lights on the Moon. Nobody realizes what precisely purposes these blazes. Alongside streaks, TLP has been accounted for as vaporous fogs, ruddy, green, blue, or violet hues, another lighting up, and even darkenings.