All About Space

What is phantom energy? You'd be correct in thinking that its cousin is the mysterious dark energy. And just like it, cosmologists are scratching their heads on its true identity. We have a rough idea that dark energy exists in the universe due to co

For a decade astronomers have been looking to the sky and sighing with frustration as the Milky Way spews giant plumes of high-energy particles with no firm explanation as to what is behind them. They were first discovered in 2010 using NASA's Fermi

What would happen if the Fermi Bubbles were close to Earth? The bubbles are manifested perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way, so if we were closer to the bubbles, we would still not be inside the bubbles. But since we would be close to the bub

Transits of Mercury and Venus are fascinating to watch, but potentially extremely dangerous too: you’re trying to see a small black dot moving across the brilliant solar disc, so you can’t just swing your binoculars or telescope around to the Sun and

A conjunction is an alignment of objects at the same celestial longitude. The conjunction of the Moon and the planets is determined with reference to the Sun. A planet is in conjunction with the Sun when it and Earth are aligned on opposite sides of

Constellation: Libra Magnitude: 2.8 to -0.4 AM/PM: PM Although it is usually so hard to see, this is a very big month for the closest planet to the Sun and for those who like to observe it. As far as observing is concerned, Mercury is one of the ‘