Archives for the 'Features of Interest' Category
The Sun exploded
Published on 5 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 5th September 2010
NEVER NEVER LOOK AT OR NEAR THE SUN
THROUGH BINOCULARS or TELESCOPES !
PERMANENT BLINDNESS WILL RESULT EVEN
JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT THE SUN.
NEVER means DO NOT TRY!
Click here for enlarge image that it shows Sun Spots (Ref Number Spots :- 1105) is growing rapidly, but does not yet pose a treat for a strong solar flares [...]
Successfully Test
Published on 3 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 3rd September 2010
(Credit: NASA)
NASA and ATK Successfully Test Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor
Smoke and fire billow as the DM-2 motor roars into a successful test in Brigham City, Utah, on Aug. 31, 2010. (Credit: NASA)
With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of [...]
Amazing image of Jupiter
Published on 2 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 2nd September 2010
I want to sharing with you an amazing image of Jupiter that was captured by the telescope of world-famous astrophotographer Anthony Wesley, Australia – Click here for an enlarge image – crystal-clear transparency!
“On a scale of 1 to 10, the seeing was a 12 and now I know what it must be [...]
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Observing the four largest moons but one missing!
Published on 30 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 30th July 2010 @ 23:30 / 11:30pm
Observing the Galilean Moons
Spots the giant gas planet, Jupiter’s four largest moons – The Galilean Moons.
See above the image (left to right) - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - were first seen in 1610 by the Italian Galileo Galilei, known as the Galilean moons, after his name.
Through a small [...]
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What is the difference between “Dark Nebula” & “Nebula”?
Published on 29 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 29th July 2010
See the bright-orange ”Neo-Clouds” where it was reflected by the sunsets below the horizon, it was captured by myself on Tuesday 27th July 2010 at 21:00 / 9pm. This example in meanings of nebula in the Universe – the word nebula is Latin for `cloud`.
And see the dark shadow clouds – against [...]
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What is Space?
Published on 28 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Wednesday 28th July 2010
What is Space?
Space is the name to give the region beyond our planet, Earth which may stretch forever. Space is made of nothing at all! – but it has lots of things in it, such as planets and stars! That contents are called the Universe.
How was the Universe made?
Many scientists believe that the [...]
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 [...]
