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I’ve been meaning to post this one up for a couple of weeks now, its a shot of the International Space Station taken from the Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis on STS-117. It’s a great shot of the station which looks much more symmetrical now that it has a second set of solar panels providing additional […]
It’s time to Bum Rush The Charts!
Though it’s not really a big news story, the image just looked too cool to pass up. The image is of galactic cluster Abell s0740 which lies some 450 Million Light years from our little rock. What’s amazing to me in this picture is the level of detail that the Hubble telescope […]
Speaking after being awarded the Copley medal in England last week Prof. Steven Hawking spoke out about the need for mankind to extend its footprint outside the Sol system. His proposed method for making this happen: matter/antimatter annihilation to propel a craft to near-light speeds. This is the method popularized in the television (and […]
I friend of mine sent me a link to this YouTube video recently, his intent I’m sure was for me to marvel at how large some of the entities in our universe are. What happened, is that I realized without any hesitation something else: how small we are.
Most of us have a pretty […]
This image was up on the APOD site today and I found it amazing. Not only because of the densely packed region of stars shown (these are near the galactic core), but because the SWEEPS project is intended to search for stars with planetary systems outside our own solar system.
Last week astronomers all over the world captured pictures of the Total Solar Eclipse. The link points to the APOD for April 4th, which shows an image compiled of the view of the eclipse over Turkey.
The next chance to see a total Solar Eclipse will be August, 2008.
There’s no good reason for this post except to show a really cool picture of Eta Carinae. This was taken in 1996 and shows the two-bulb nebula attached to the star Eta Carinae. Astronomers feel that this star is a really good candidate for a full-blown supernova.
Sources: APOD
For many years rumours of a tenth planet in our solar system have been the stuff of tabloids and science-fiction writers. In 2003 a new planetoid was discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto. Officially named 2003 UB313 this small chunk of rock and ice is about 30% more massive than Pluto.
Now that it has been discovered, the […]
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