Geyserland Observatory

Geyserland Observatory Is a small backyard Observatory, situated in Rotorua, New Zealand, privately owned and operated.

30/08/2024

A recent study reveals that Earth's rotation significantly slowed down during two critical periods in its history, with one coinciding with the largest mass extinction event.

30/08/2024

It has been always known that there are gravity and magnetic fields present on planet Earth. However, an international team of scientists, with the help of a NASA suborbital rocket, was able to measure a planet-wide electric field successfully, which has been found to be as fundamental to planet Ear...

28/08/2024

Quasars are the extremely bright cores of galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes at their centres.

28/08/2024

A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars.

23/08/2024

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away. The relatively open distribution of stars in this diminutive galaxy allows light from distant background galaxies to shine through. Astronomers study dwarf galaxies lik...

23/08/2024

Scientists might be on track to revealing new facets of physics.

23/08/2024

This view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy. Located within the triangle-shaped constellation Triangulum and about half the size of our Milky Way galaxy, M33 is the third-largest member of our Local Gro...

20/08/2024

The Coma Cluster is home to over 1,000 galaxies — and 90% of its mass is dark matter.

20/08/2024

NASA’s citizen scientists have discovered CWISE J1249, a mysterious object speeding out of the Milky Way at 1 million miles per hour. Detected through NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, this ancient object, possibly a star or brown dwarf, challenges classification due to its low mass and ...

20/08/2024

In a groundbreaking image from June 20, 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured aligned gas jets from newborn stars, proving that such stars share a common spin direction. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left

20/08/2024

Astronomers estimate a 50% chance that the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way within the next 10 billion years. This event could result in the merging of the two galaxies

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