• Seriously Sirius

    Would you possibly imagine the brightest object in the night sky is actually a star? A blue star. Yes, not the planets nearby or not even the moon but a long star called Sirius with visual apparent magnitude of −1.46. Located in the constellation Canis Major, it is 8.6 light years away from Earth, one of our nearest neighbors. Interestingly this star is moving closer to Earth so its brightness is going to increase slightly over the next 60,000 years. And then, its going to start moving farther and will become fainter but still will remain the brightest object in the Earth’s night sky for the next 210,000 years. Oh,…

  • Scientist invented a shrinking ray?

    Yeah you read the title right… It maybe not be exactly as it sounds but it sure is cool. Read ahead to find out. It wont be disappointing, i promise. People who read and gets fascinated about astronomy sure will feel the same about the famous “Large Hadron Collider“. For those who doesn’t, here is a brief: This science toy is the most famous and world’s largest particle accelerator built in a tunnel beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva. It is 27 kms in circumference and deep as 175 meters. This do-wikky-thing was solely built to investigate and research more about particle physics – a field in physics to study the…