Astronomy discoveries update

This video from the USA says about itself:

29 March 2017

One of Jupiter‘s asteroid companions shares the planet‘s orbit around the sun but travels in the opposite direction. Planets and asteroids in this video have been enlarged to make them visible. Read more here.

Video credit: © 2017 Western Univ., Athabasca Univ., Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

This video from the USA says about itself:

23 March 2017

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitational waves produced by the merging of two supermassive black holes.

Read more here.

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson

Music credit: “Stealth Car” by Tom Sue [GEMA] and Zac Singer [GEMA]; Ed. Berlin Production Music/Universal Publishing Production Music GmbH GEMA; Berlin Production Music; Killer Tracks Production Music

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