Fun Facts About Asteroids
Written by Aindrila Jana, a third-year undergraduate student
Rocky objects orbiting the Sun that are too minute to be considered planets are asteroids. They are mostly made of rocks and metals.
Written by Aindrila Jana, a third-year undergraduate student
Rocky objects orbiting the Sun that are too minute to be considered planets are asteroids. They are mostly made of rocks and metals.
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Fruit flies went to space before any other humans – they were actually the first living things in space!
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Mars faces some big storms each year but once every 3 years, a monstrous planet-sized storm rises up. This one can cover the entire Martian surface with dust and even block out the Sun!
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Voyagers are a set of space probes – Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 that were launched into space by NASA in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere
Written by Madhav, a grade 10 student
A solar flare is an intense burst of radioactive energy coming from the release of magnetic energy, which is present in the sunspots.
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
This happens during the last stage of a really massive star, which is about to die. The explosions are very bright and super powerful.
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Do you ever feel the moon appears bigger sometimes?
Written by Prakriti Panwar, a first-year undergraduate student
The James Webb telescope, which is the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope ever built, recently captured the first full-color image of the cosmos (the universe)
A scientist from the University of Waterloo, Qing-Bin Lu, recently discovered a massive hole over the tropics, which, it seems, has been there for 30 years and is only just discovered!
Written by Manya Pandey, a first-year undergraduate student.
Named after Edwin Hubble, it’s a really big observatory in space that has a super clear view of the universe. It is used by scientists to observe distant stars, galaxies planets etc, in our solar system.