When a black hole erupts, part of the light may have to orbit the black hole once, twice or even thousands of times until it can be released from the massive gravitational force of the black hole. Because of this a number of small “ghost” eruptions can be seen after the eruption. …

I just read this news in Finnish online newspaper and wanted to share it. This is not astronomy news, but is related to space and sounds interesting, so you might want to read this. The news is that Russians have developed super cockroaches in space which are bigger, faster and survive better than …

On next Monday Nasa’s spacecraft is going to do a historic flyby of planet Mercury in 200 kilometers above the surface of Mercury. This is a historic moment because we have not studied Mercury this close since 1975 when Mariner 10 took pictures of Mercury.
Nasa’s Alan Stern, an associate administrator for NASA’s Science …

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They have some interesting news in NASA’s website. A powerful jet from a super massive black hole seems to blast a nearby galaxy. According to researchers, this jet might destroy the planets on its way, but it might also speed up the formation process of new stars. This objects is known as 3C321 …

Nasa has delayed the launch of Atlantis to January due to problems with sensors controlling the engine. According to Nasa, Atlantis can be launched earliest in January 2nd. Atlantis was supposed to be launched in December in order to carry the Columbus science laboratory to the International Space Station. The laboratory is the …

European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission has proved that there is lightning in Venus. According to the measurement results, there might be lightning in Venus more often than in our planet. So far we have detected lightning only in three planets, Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. In all these three the lightning is associated …

Rosetta has taken spectacular images of Earth. It was close to Earth in Tuesday while travelling towards comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta captured these beautiful images while passing the Earth. In those pictures you can see the tremendous amounts of light of big cities. See Hong Kong, for example. Compare it to Singapore and you …

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released very sharp HDTV video material from Kaguya lunar explorer. This is the first time we see such high quality video of the Moon. Kaguyan camera uses 1920×1080 resolutions. Best still pictures are available to see in JAXA website, as well as lower scaled videos. It is …

One international space station is not enough. China wants to have its on station and is already planning one that will have weight of 20 tons. So far it all has been just rumours, but now China has confirmed the deadlines. Well, at least China’s leading researcher Long Lehao has said it loud, …