Thursday, 11. June 2009, 18:13:20
betelguese, supernova
The red giant Betelgeuse, once so large it would reach out to Jupiter's orbit if placed in our own solar system, has shrunk by 15 percent over the past decade in a half, although it's just as bright as it's ever been. Betelgeuse, whose name derives from Arabic, is easily visible in the constellation Orion.
As the iron fuel runs out, it may explode into a supernova, blasting newly created elements out into the universe and leaving behind a small, incredibly dense neutron star.
See the Story
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525695,00.html
Friday, 6. April 2007, 14:49:15
space
The online system is a detailed star sky map. Their are about 500 million stars in the databases
wikisky.org uses.
wikisky.org
astronomy
Wednesday, 4. April 2007, 23:17:56
star trek
Scheduled for April 28, 2007, the ashes of James Doohan, who played Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the series Star Trek (tv and movies), will be shot up into space. The remains of Gordon Cooper, Mercury astronaut, will also be on the same rocket. A SpaceLoft XL rocket will be launched from Spaceport America, New Mexico, about 45 miles north of Las Cruces.
Here's the full story from playfuls.com
star trek
Monday, 2. April 2007, 21:45:45
saturn
Wednesday, 14. March 2007, 12:58:22
saturn, cassini
The Cassini probe has found evidence of probable liquid hydrocarbon seas on Saturn's moon Titan. Titan is the second largest moon in the solar system and is about 50 percent larger as Earth's moon. The proof is not definitive for one to say that the lake is filled with liquid, but the smoothness of the body indicates liquid.
bbc news story
technorati tag: cassini
Thursday, 8. March 2007, 18:41:36
hubble
I found a new image gallery of pics taken by the Hubble Telescope.
It is from the Hubble Heritage Project. There are many pictures
on their website. Also the Heritage
team describes the process of how
the pictures are developed.
hubble hubble heritage project
Thursday, 11. January 2007, 00:09:07
The comet discovered by Rob McNaught on August 7, 2004 can be seen very easily. The maximal brightness has ranged from +2.1 to -8.8 and the closest distance to the Sun of .17 astronomical units will make McNaught's Comet (C/2006 P1) very bright indeed.
If you're a sky watcher in the evening or morning, with a clear sky, you'll be in for a real treat. No one really knows what the object will look like until images from
SOHO come in. Images will be posted as soon as they start coming in. McNaught's Comet has a prominent tail which the below average sky watcher can't miss. So keep up-to-date and have fun, like I did on Saturday, January 6 when the International Space Station was very bright in the mid-low southwestern sky.
SOHO homepageMcNaught's Comet informationMcNaught's Comet picturestechnorati blogs: Astronomytechnorati tag: Astronomy
Friday, 29. December 2006, 14:10:25
space, astronomy
I found a site you might enjoy looking at. The best pictures in the astronomy field of 2006. Number 1 was a picture I featured earlier on this blog. The Cassini picture of Saturn. There is another picture that you'll enjoy - the Earth as seen through Saturn's rings.
The "dot" is Earth. Cassini was about 1 billion miles from Earth when this pic was taken.
We have come a long way in space exploration and the pictures from Cassini are wonderful. The entire mission has been near perfect and the pictures sent back to us is proof that unmanned exploration has a special place in the field of astronomy, physics and jet propulsion.
link to badastronomy site with the best pictures of 2006technorati tag: Astronomytechnorati tag: Space
Tuesday, 26. December 2006, 17:38:09
apophis
2004 MN4 will pass by Earth in April 2029 and will be visible by the naked eye, but only in western Asia, Africa, and Europe. On April 13, 2029 the asteroid named Apophis wil come within 22,600 miles of Earth. The object will shine like a star with a magnitude of 3.3 and pass through the constellation of Cancer.
space.com story used as a reference for this posttechnorati tag: apophis
Monday, 25. December 2006, 16:48:04
apophis
NASA is seriously drawing up plans to possibly divert an asteroid that is projected to come with 22,000 miles from Earth by April 2029. Apophis will destroy some satellites if it comes that close to Earth. Apophis has an orbit of 323 days around the Sun and NASA scientists hope to change that orbit with a nuclear tug.
Read the story from
timesonlinetechnorati tag: apophis
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