Tag: space exploration
Hawking Radiation – Can Light Escape Black Holes?
Black holes have been among the most discussed topic in the scientific research community for a long time now. If black holes are, by...
Does the Universe Have a Destiny?
Some ponder, why do we exist? Some, use the tools and knowledge available to mankind to inquire? Imagination and Inquiry both have made available...
Why Habitability on Mars is Nasa’s Primary Objective?
One of the primary goals of NASA scientists is to research on the habitability, finding fossils and organic carbon on planet Mars. Both the...
Diamond in the Sky – Earth-size White Dwarf Star Found in...
We all can recollect the famous nursery rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star which portrayed stars as shining diamonds. Now this seems to be a...
Can Asteroids and Comets Really Cause an Apocalypse?
Near-Earth objects and Earth-grazers have been much in the talks between the astronomy community especially after last year’s Chelyabinsk incident. We are just a...
Life on Mars, Titan, or Europa – A Genuine Possibility?
The rise of the discovery of exoplanets in recent times has only led to more possibilities of finding earth-like planets. In our Solar System,...
The Invisible Yet Strongly Evident Space-time Continuum – Part III
We have seen in our previous posts how string theory and the observations made by MAGIC are helping scientists to really understand the space-time...
The Invisible Yet Strongly Evident Space-time Continuum – Part II
Space-time continuum has been baffling the scientists since the days of Einstein and Newton. We continue from the previous post which talked about the...
The Invisible Yet Strongly Evident Space-time Continuum – Part I
We live in an invisible landscape: a landscape that, although we cannot perceive it directly, determines everything that we see and do. Every object...
Gamma-Ray Bursts – The Most Powerful Blasts in the Universe
One of the greatest mysteries of observational astronomy during the past 3 decades has been the nature of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The most powerful...