Little is known about the outer planets in our solar system, but astronomers have been able to classify them as gas giants or ice giants. While both gas and ice giants are large planets containing the dominant elements of helium and hydrogen, they differ in atmospheric composition. Ice giants also have ammonia, water, and methane … Read more
Black holes are one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, sucking anything close by into their massive gravitational pull. But nothing lasts forever, and even black holes die one day. As Hawking radiation escapes the event horizon of these entities, they evaporate a little bit, and so begins a prolonged death. Black holes are … Read more
Jupiter and brown dwarfs have a lot more in common than most celestial entities would, so much so some continue to believe that Jupiter was once a brown dwarf star in the past. Reality is obviously far different from this as the two operate distinctly from one another. In regards to the similarities, both can … Read more
The event horizon of a black hole – otherwise known as its surface – is the boundary where the escape velocity is higher than the speed of light. As this represents the universe’s speed limit, matter falls into the black hole but fails to escape back out of it. Continue reading to discover why we … Read more
The death of a star can form a variety of unique entities, whether a white dwarf, black hole or in this case the different types of neutron stars. Pulsars and neutrons stars are one in the same as all pulsars are neutron stars but, not all neutron stars can be classified as pulsars. This is … Read more
Sony is one of the biggest players in the photography industry therefore, it only makes sense that they’d also be producing maongst the best lenses for a number of unique image taking scenarios, astrophotography included. In this article, I’ll be going over 7 of the best Sony lenses for astrophotographyavailable in the market that will … Read more
Neutron stars and black holes are both the by product of products of dead stars, specifically those that die in a violent supernova explosion. Neutron stars form when a star lower than 3 M in mass or above 1.44 solar masse dies whilst black holes form when larger stars that are 4 solar masses large … Read more
White dwarfs have been observed continuously for multiple decades, from the matter that’s used to produce them, the speed at which they spin, how they’re made so on and so forth. In essence we actually know that they exist and aren’t just some fantasy thought up by some nut job. The same can’t quite be … Read more
A white dwarf is the final visible stage of a star’s life cycle when the outer materials escape, and the core compresses into a super-dense mass. A brown dwarf is a star that failed to ignite due to insufficient mass. While it can carry out some level of fusion with a material such as deuterium, it … Read more
A red giant is the stellar body created once a star runs out of hydrogen and begins to burn through the helium at its core. The white dwarf is a star that has exhausted all fusion materials and is now starting to cool. Both bodies are among the final stages in the life cycle of … Read more