Cassini is now burning its way through Saturn’s atmosphere As most of you know, this Friday, September the 15th early morning Cassini spacecraft plunged itself to Saturn and ended its life. The Saturn exploration that has been touring the planet for 13 years has come to an end – mixed feelings. It has given, sent, help us learn so much about that planet. Scientists and engineers gathered at NASA’s JPL in California to wave goodbye to the spacecraft that has taught them so much about Saturn and its moons. Here is a short video highlights from NASA JPL: One of the Cassini’s project scientist at the NASA JPL commented that,…
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When the two worlds collide
Image Source Milky Way and Andromeda will merge and tie the knot as destined. Four billions from now, our galaxy and our neighboring spiral galaxy will collide as destined. This event will be the largest galactic event in our planet’s history. Andromeda Galaxy also known as M31, our neighbor which is located 2.5 million light years away (each light year is about 6 trillion mileS) from the Earth is the closest to our galaxy. It is also the only galaxy that’s visible to the naked eye – only when the sky is clear, dark (appears as a smudge ) and it’s headed our way. It’s not a…