Archives for July 2010
The Gaia Satellite from the UK.
Published on 21 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 21st July 2010
The Gaia Satellite from the UK to be launched in 2012 that the new mission to create the largest and most precise three dimensional (3D) chart of our Galaxy by providing unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements for about one billion stars in our Galaxy and throughout the Local Group.
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Did you know?
Published on 20 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 20th July 2010
Did you know?
Stars would explode if gravity were not holding their material together!
Atom have gravity, which means that they pull things towards them.
After the Big Bang, gravity made atoms clump together to form stars and planets.
Stars are made of hydrogen and helium atoms but solid planets (Earth, Mercury, Venus & Mars) are [...]
What are planets made of?
Published on 19 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 19th July 2010
Like Earth, most of the smaller planets in our Solar System have a solid surface made of rock. However Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the four biggest planets, are made of gases!
Could we breathe on any other planets in our Solar System?
No. One of Saturn’s moons (Titan), may have an atmosphere made [...]
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Mosaic Earth
Published on 18 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 18th July 2010
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Credit :- Photographic Mosaic & Digital by Rob Stevenson.
The world famous image has been recast as a spectacular photomosaic that used over 5,000 archived images from NASA of Earth and Space to create the photomosaic as Earth (Blue Marble) was taken from Apollo 17 in 1972.
Rob said, “Please [...]
What are Saturn’s Ring made of?
Published on 17 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 17th July 2010
What are Saturn’s made of ?
They are made of billions of pieces of ice, dust and rocks.
Some of these particles are as small as a grain of sail, while others are as big as houses.
These are so many of them that the rings look solid.
The rings shine because the ice particles in [...]
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Moon, Saturn, Mars & Venus tonight
Published on 16 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 16th July 2010
Above the image was captured by Miguel Claro, Portugal.
(Derekscope’s archives :- Thursday 15th July 2010.)
The 5.67 days old Crescent Moon is below Saturn as they form a right-angle (90`) with Mars at 22:00 / 10pm tonight.
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Sun, Moon and Planets ?
Published on 15 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 15th July 2010
Sun, Moon and Planets ?
Sun in the constellation of Gemini (The Twin).
Moon (4.58 days old) moving through in the constellation of Sextans (The Sextans), visible in the Western Sky after the sunset below Mars.
Mercury in the constellation of Cancer (The Crab), visible in the Western Sky (evening) after the sunset, but difficult [...]
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Teapot in Sagittarius
Published on 14 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 14th July 2010
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A Galactic Bulge in the constellation of Sagittarius, is a huge, tightly packed of group of stars. (The term commonly refers to the central group of stars found in most spiral galaxies.)
Many bulges are thought to host a supermassive black hole at their center. Such black holes have [...]
What is the Sun?
Published on 13 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 13th July 2010
What is the Sun?
The Sun is a star! – Great glowing ball of two gases (Hydrogen and Helium).
Without the Sun’s light and heat – You won’t be here today, nothing could survive on this planet, Earth would die, because we need the Sun’s ray for our plants to change carbon dioxide and water [...]
Neo-Clouds
Published on 12 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 12th July 2010
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Neo-Clouds (Noctilucent Clouds or NLC)
Last weekend I captured this above image of a Neo-Clouds on 9th July 2010 at night – 22:35 / 10.35pm, this Neo-Clouds were in the form of waves and bands for a short period, low on the NorthWestern Horizon, they were bright electric blue [...]
