Tag: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Ever since, the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, we have launched more than 10,000 satellites, with nearly 6,000 still in orbit out of which about only 3,000 are currently operational. The amount of space junk generated by them is so much that it's now becoming a huge concern to us.

Thought this year may have been a bad one for some, it wasn't the same in the field of Astronomy & Astrophysics as we were able to witness many new findings and events throughout the year, starting with the dazzling first image taken of the Sun by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope to witnessing the closest Great Conjunction in 397 years.

We are living in a world where we have a huge list of problems that we humans face ranging from diseases to poverty, that...

Big Bang Theory doesn’t give us the whole explanation of the Origin of the Universe. It explained that the Universe started with a Big Bang or you say singularity about 13.82 billion years ago. Though we fully don’t know how it happened, we are able understand it through mathematical equations and models.