THE FATE OF 3 GALAXIES

Our galaxy is on a collision course with Andromeda galaxy. In 2012, from the reading of Hubble telescope, scientists concluded that the collision of Milky Way and Andromeda is imminent and a sure thing to happen. Currently Andromeda galaxy is hurdling towards the Milky Way galaxy with a speed of nearly 110 Kilometers/second. But, don’t […]

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THE SHAPE OF THE MILKY WAY GALAXY

The universe is ever expanding. Out of the billions of galaxies floating across in the ocean of space in the universe, we live in a galaxy named Milky-Way. When we think about the universe, its size is incomprehensible. When we narrow it down to our galaxy, the size and the elements present in our galaxy […]

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FROM THE SMALLEST TO THE BIGGEST

There are various objects in the universe , from microscopic to macroscopic which are of different shapes and sizes. Apart from the sizes of what we see daily, look at these mind boggling sizes of various elements which exists at this very moment in our universe. A String – part of string theory: 1.62*10-35 meters […]

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RANDOM WRITES-1 LARGEST NUMBER

There are plenty of numbers. Few of them are finitely infinite and few of them are finite and most of them are infinitely infinite. It just depends on the way we view. They are infinite. But within the countable set, what can be the largest number?Lets see. Googol- 10100 Number of atoms in the body […]

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KILONOVA

When a star dies it would go into a supernova and depending on its mass its core either collapses into a black hole or a neutron star or a white dwarf. A kilonova is 1000 times brighter than nova (but not much brighter than a supernova). It is usually produced when two massive stellar core […]

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THE MOST MYSTIFYING COSMIC OBJECT

The universe is a wonderful place to be. Feisty yet fasted, Chaotic yet Calm, Life taking yet life-giving.  Today, let’s talk about one of the most puzzling objects we know in the universe.   Millions of celestial objects are swirling across the cosmos right now; black holes are one among them. A black hole is a […]

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THE LIVING REFLECTION

The universe, which we know of, is nearly 13.7 billion years old. No one knows the beginning or the end. There are many hypotheses and theories, but no one knows exactly how it happened/ is going to happen.  The universe size  measured till now is nearly 93,000,000,000 Light years in diameter, which can be seen […]

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