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From Leonid Meteor Showers to partial lunar eclipse: Here a list of celestial events in November to look out for
Trendingdesk • 3 years agoOn 18 November, one will have an excellent chance to spot planet Uranus, if one looks north of the nearly Full Moon.
Hubble celebrates 31st anniversary with image of one of the largest stars in the Milky Way
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoAG Carinae is a few million years old and has been existing some 20,000 light-years away inside the Milky Way.
Rare glimpse of Venus in a new light captured by WISPR camera on NASA's Parker probe
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoExperts are still looking into the cause and origin of the streaks in the ethereal photograph, taken from 12,380 kilometres away.
Astronomers observe magnetar J1818 that is exhibiting very unusual activity
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoJ1818 was emitting unusual pulsar-like radio waves in May but by June, it had started flickering between magnetar and pulsar-like properties.
Scientists use New Horizon to find number of galaxies from glow of the universe
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoThe ‘leftover glow’ is coming from some dwarf galaxies that are present in the nearby universe “just beyond detectability”
Star sisters: Around 500 stars born together in Theia 456 are now moving together
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoAll the stars streams in the Milky Way have been conveniently named Theia for the Greek Titan goddess of sight and heavenly light.
Scientists witness the death of a galaxy 9 million light-years away unfold, in a remarkable first
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoThe rare and recent discovery also shows that galaxies could shut down as a result of mergers.
NASA shares Hubble image of dazzling supernova-prone 'fireworks galaxy' NGC 6946
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoStargazers are able to marvel at NGC 6946 with a telescope since it is a face-on galaxy, that observers see it facing them at all times.
Researchers measure and confirm the distance to oldest, farthest galaxy GN-z11 in the universe
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoThe team of researchers measured the redshift of GN-z11, which is the light stretches out, becomes redder, the farther it travels.
Fast radio burst detected in the Milky Way is repeating, scientists confirm
Trendingdesk • 4 years agoIn April this year, a weaker burst was detected and astronomers tracked it to a unique kind of star called a magnetar some 30,000 light-years away from us.