Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Earth May Have Had Two Moons

Two Moons

Most of us will say earth had one moon as we see today. But according to a new hypothesis that is wrong. The journal Nature suggests the existence of more than one moon. This new idea has tried to solve a mysterious puzzle of the difference in the near and far sides of moon. So, when and how did Mother Earth lose its companion ?

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Black Hole holds Universe's Biggest Water Supply

An Active Galactic Nucleus

Two pairs of astronomers have been successful in discovering in the largest and farthest water reservoir in the world until now. 12 billion light years away from the earth this reservoir holds upto 140 trillion times more water  than all the oceans of the earth constitute.