Space is an empty void. But one part is even emptier and more void-ish than the rest. Just southwest of Orion in the constellation Eridanus, astronomers have discovered a swath of space, one ...

A sequence of stellar detonations likely carved out the region, leaving behind a hot, X-ray-emitting void. ... It encompasses the famous Orion Nebula and extends toward the Eridanus constellation.

In fact, the constellation is the home to the Boötes Void, an area of the universe 250 to 330 million light-years across that is nearly empty, containing only a handful of galaxies, according to ...

The "hole" is located in the direction of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a survey of the sky made at radio wavelengths. ... But the void discovered by a University of ...

PEOPLE don’t know their Uranus from Eridanus – when it comes to astronomy. A poll of 2,000 adults found 49 per cent don’t know what a lunar eclipse is and 84 per cent wrongly believe th… ...

This is one of several constellations invented by Abbe Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, who mapped the stars of the Southern Hemisphere from the Cape of Good Hope from 1751 to 1753. To the east of the ...

Did you know there’s a river of stars flowing across the night sky? I’m not talking about the Milky Way, which certainly looks like a river in and of itself. A few weeks ago, I wrote about ...

People don’t know their Uranus from Eridanus when it comes to astronomy. Most Brits don’t know the shape of the moon or why lunar eclipses happen . Maira Butt. Friday 27 October 2023 17:41 BST.