Science Collection

13/09/2025

09/09/2025

THE NIGHT SKY TURNS CRIMSON 🌕

LOOK: Skywatchers across Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia witness a stunning Blood Moon as Earth’s shadow turns the Moon reddish-orange during a rare lunar eclipse. Totality begins around 5:30 PM UTC and will last nearly an hour and a half.

📸: NASA/FB

09/09/2025

09/09/2025

Ethan Callaghan captured this breathtaking shot of tonight's Full Red Moon rising over Liberty Statue during a total lunar eclipse. 🌕✨
This is a real photograph, and its incredible scale is achieved using a technique called telephoto compression (also known as lens compression).

Here's how it works:
* A powerful telephoto lens (with a long focal length, often 300mm–600mm) is used.

* The photographer stands a great distance away from the subject in the foreground (in this case, the Liberty Statue)

* The long focal length then makes the Moon—which is actually quite small to the naked eye—appear much larger and closer to the foreground subject in the frame, creating this dramatic effect.

09/09/2025

A new 3D map of the milky way shows warped shape of our galaxy

Imagine being on a planet around a star on the far ends of the warp. Great view of the rest of the galaxy!TL;DRScientists have created a detailed 3D map of the Milky Way, revealing that our galaxy is warped into an S-shape. By analyzing over 2,400 Cepheid stars, researchers found that the galaxy ben...

09/09/2025

Yesternight, we all witnessed what is being referred to as a Red Moon. I know many of you already understand it, but allow me to explain to the people of Masinga, M***a, Kathonzweni and a few elements in Pipeline.

A Red Moon occurs when the moon takes on a reddish or copper-like color, often during a lunar eclipse. This happens when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon, blocking sunlight from directly reaching the moon. Instead, the only light that reaches the moon first passes through the Earth’s atmosphere.

As that sunlight travels, the atmosphere filters out most of the blue light and bends the red light, casting a reddish glow on the moon’s surface. That is why we see it as a “Red Moon” or sometimes called a “Blood Moon.”

It’s a natural phenomenon, not dangerous, and has been observed for centuries, often enjoyed as a breathtaking view in the night sky.

09/09/2025

Black holes keep ‘burping up’ stars they destroyed years earlier, and
astronomers don’t know why

 A recent study has revealed that nearly half of black holes that consume stars during tidal disruption events (TDEs) later emit remnants of those stars, sometimes years after the initial event. TDEs occur when a star ventures too close to a black hole, where the black hole’s gravitational pull e...

09/09/2025

Beautiful eclipse from the skies of Petra❤️

08/09/2025

The Blood Moon of September 7, 2025: A Celestial Spectacle for the Ages

08/09/2025

Astronomers find galaxy similar to Milky Way more than 12 billion light-years away

 This ancient galaxy, SPT0418-47, has a surprising level of order and stability, defying theories about early cosmic chaos.5 Key TakeawaysA galaxy similar to the Milky Way, named SPT0418-47, has been discovered over 12 billion light-years away, revealing surprising structure during the early univer...