Tag: Space

In Context Recently, NASA has launched a satellite called Landsat 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.  About Landsat 9 It is an Earth monitoring satellite. Landsat-9 is the continuation of a series of Earth-observing spacecraft stretching back almost 50 years. The first Landsat satellite was launched in 1972. The satellite is referred to […]

In News  Recently, two astronomers at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, have plotted the probability distribution function of the orbit of Planet Nine.  Background In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union announced that it had reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.  The decision was based on Pluto’s size and the fact […]

In News  Recently, the Inspiration4 Mission was launched by SpaceX. About Inspiration4 Mission  It was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and crew aboard a Crew Dragon capsule and SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for an Earth-orbiting mission.  It is the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit.  It is largely made up of civilians with no […]

In News  Recently, Indian researchers found that half of the blue stragglers in their sample are formed through mass transfer from a close binary companion star. One third are likely formed through collisions of 2 stars, and the remaining are formed through interactions of more than 2 stars. This was the first-ever comprehensive analysis of […]

In News Moon-forming region seen around exoplanet for the first time. About The researchers used the ALMA observatory in Chile’s Atacama desert to detect the disc of swirling material accumulating around one of two newborn planets seen orbiting a young star called PDS 70, located a relatively close 370 light years from Earth. Discovery Scientists […]

In News Recently, the Hope spacecraft, sent by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to orbit Mars, has captured images of discrete auroras on Mars. Discrete Auroras The data gathered by the oribter include far and extreme ultraviolet auroral emissions which have never been imaged before at Mars. The beacons of light that stand out against […]