An international team of astronomers has observed part of the final death throes of the largest known star in the Universe as it throws off its outer layers. The discovery, by a collaboration of scientists from the UK, Chile, Germany, and the US, is a vital step in understanding how massive stars return enriched material to the interstellar medium — the space between stars — which is necessary for forming planetary systems.
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago—a newborn in planet lifetimes.
We here at SAAB would like to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous Eid-ul-Adha.
Though there was very few of us, though the sky was partial cloudy with low visibility but guess what? We managed to observe the “ISS” from this very city of Dhaka. This evening just after our evening prayer there were few of us on rooftop of a thirteen storied building in old part of Dhaka.
Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office
On the exoplanet Kepler 7b, the weather is highly predictable, an international team of scientists has found: On any given day, the exoplanet, which orbits a star nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth, is heavily overcast on one side, while the other side likely enjoys clear, cloudless weather.
An ambitious one-day mission to observe the potentially dazzling Comet ISON with a telescope dangling from a colossal NASA balloon this weekend has failed due to a mechanical glitch, NASA officials say.
September 12, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.
We the team SAAB, would like to welcome every astronomy enthusiast of Bangladesh in this very joyous moment where we launch our comprehensive website for astronomy.
In this very auspicious moment we the members of SAAB would like to express our heartfelt gratitude towards two short-lived yet special individuals who were on the way of becoming pioneers in astronomy arena of Bangladesh.
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By NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico — Published: September 5, 2013
Astronomers using a worldwide network of radio telescopes have found strong evidence that a powerful jet of material propelled to nearly light speed by a galaxy’s central black hole is blowing massive amounts of gas out of the galaxy. This process, they said, is limiting the growth of the black hole and the rate of star formation in the galaxy, and thus is a key to understanding how galaxies develop.
By NASA/JPL — Published: September 5, 2013
NASA has narrowed to four the number of potential landing sites for the agency’s next mission to the surface of Mars, a 2016 lander to study the planet’s interior.
The stationary Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (InSight) lander is scheduled to launch in March 2016 and land on Mars six months later. It will touch down at one of four sites selected in August from a field of 22 candidates. All four semifinalist spots lie near each other on an equatorial plain in an area of Mars called Elysium Planitia.
BY KEITH COOPER
“The possible new nova is located in Delphinus alongside the familiar Summer Triangle outlined by Deneb, Vega and Altair. This may shows the sky looking high in the south for mid-northern latitudes around 10 p.m. in mid-August.”
A new nova has appeared in the constellation Delphinus. Currently estimated to be at magnitude +6, it is possible that the nova could brighten even further to become visible to the naked eye in dark skies.