Cosmic Thinker

2020 was a great year to see Mars. The red planet showed up like a bursting red dot of fire in our night sky. In any case, despite the fact that Mars began 2021 sparkling brilliantly, it immediately fainted. Furthermore, it proceeded to show up very faint consistently. In August, Mars vanished toward the distant horizon. Presently, Mars is at the solar conjunction, or behind the sun from Earth. Credits : NASA The Solar Conjunction Mars will be closest to the Sun on 8 October 2021 (at about 9:30 IST). At the nearest approach, Mars will show up at a partition of just 0°39' from the Sun, making it absolutely imperceptible for a very long time while it is lost in the Sun's glare.  At around a similar time, Mars will likewise be at its generally far off from the Earth – subsiding to a distance of 2.63 AU – since the two planets will lie on inverse sides of the Solar System.  On the off chance that Mars could be seen as of now, apparently at its littlest and faintest because of its ...

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...