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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 [...]
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 [...]
Astronomers and Footballers reach final today!
Published on 11 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 11th July 2010
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Derekscope BSL Sign Video :- How Solar Eclipses work?
Hotels in Tahiti, the Cook Islands and Easter Island are fully booked for the event.
However, the eclipse is due to take place between 7am and 10.30am local time (5pm and 8pm GMT), forcing those on the islands to choose [...]
