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July 2026 night sky guide: When to see the Buck Moon, Milky Way and Venus?

July 2026 offers one of the year's best stargazing windows, featuring the Full Buck Moon, Venus, Mars, the Milky Way and the start of meteor season. (Representational)

Published 27 days ago

Mangalore photographer captures Milky Way after his village had no electricity

Photographer Brijesh Naik, from Kepu, Mangalore, took to Instagram to share his story of capturing the Milky Way.

Updated 361 days ago

Most breathtaking Astro Tourism spots in Saudi for Feb 2025 planetary event

Saudi’s dark sky wonders: Where to see the Milky Way like never before

Updated 545 days ago

GMRT helps discover biggest pair of black hole jets from galaxy 7.5 billion light-years from Earth

The jet megastructure has been nicknamed ‘Porphyrion’ after a giant in Greek mythology and dates back to a time when our universe was 6.3 billion years’ old. (REPRESENTATIVE PIC)

Updated 661 days ago

BH3: Milky Way's biggest stellar black hole is 2000 light years way from Earth

The Milky Way's Galactic Centre and Jupiter (brightest spot at centre top) are seen from the countryside near the small town in Florida.

Published 835 days ago

A black hole, 33 times the mass of the Sun, found hiding in Milky Way Galaxy

ESA Gaia mission has found a black hole that defies explanation.

Updated 836 days ago

From Chandrayaan 3 to Milky Way: The Shiva and Shakti connection

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced 'Shiv Shakti' as the name for the site where the Vikram lander had made the touchdown

Updated 859 days ago

Scientists identify Milky Way's ancient building blocks Shakti and Shiva

Astronomers have identified two ancient streams of stars - named after the Hindu deities Shakti and Shiva - that appear to be among the Milky Way's earliest building blocks, offering new insight into how our galaxy came together long ago. (Representational picture)

Published 860 days ago

Gaia telescope reveals insights into Milky Way's history

Astronomers believe Shakti and Shiva are so old they likely formed before the oldest parts of our galaxy's spiral arms and disc.

Published 861 days ago

Indian researchers detect X-Ray Polarization in Extragalactic black hole

In a first, IIT Guwahati, ISRO researchers detect X-Ray Polarization in Extragalactic black hole

Published 988 days ago

When a camera takes a selfie, and reveals a star

Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex taken by the NIRCam, which was released on the first anniversary of the James Webb Telescope on July 12, 2023.

Updated 701 days ago

Watch: ‘Giant mirror’-like alien planet that ‘shouldn't exist’, discovered

An artist's impression of the exoplanet LTT9779b orbiting its host star, located 264 light years from Earth.

Published 1116 days ago

Ningaloo Eclipse 2023: Top places in Australia for best dark sky experiences

The Ningaloo hybrid solar eclipse will be visible on April 20.

Published 1202 days ago

Object near supermassive black hole at Milky Way's centre intrigues scientists

The Milky Way's Galactic Centre and Jupiter (brightest spot at centre top) are seen from the countryside near the small town in Florida.

Published 1251 days ago

Mysterious ripples in milky way due to a dwarf galaxy: Study

By measuring how strong the ripples are in different parts of the disc, the researchers have begun to piece together a complex puzzle.

Published 1405 days ago

Milky Way’s black hole comes to light: How astronomers captured first image

This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy..

Updated 1540 days ago

Astronomers find ‘spooky’ object in the Milky Way unlike anything seen before

This undated handout image by astrophysicist Natasha Hurley-Walker from the Curtin University node of the ICRAR shows the Milky Way as viewed from Earth, with a star icon (at R-placed by source) marking the position of a mysterious repeating transient in space.

Published 1646 days ago

Astronomers spot giant 'blinking' star near Milky way

Since the star is located in a dense region of the Milky Way, the researchers considered whether some unknown dark object could have simply drifted in front of the giant star by chance.

Published 1874 days ago

‘Cosmic masterpiece’: Nasa image shows ‘violent energy’ of Milky Way ‘downtown

Threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields are weaving a tapestry of energy at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Published 1888 days ago

'The Unicorn', closest known black hole to Earth, may be galaxy's smallest

Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects that possess gravitational pulls so strong that not even light can escape. 'The Unicorn' falls into what the researchers called a "mass gap" between the largest-known neutron stars - objects similarly formed by a large star's collapse.

Published 1925 days ago

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