It’s reported that NASA’s Kepler deep space probe has found a planet, similar to Earth. It’s close to the size of earth and about 352 light years away. The planet is called Kepler-22b. The planet orbits a bright star like the our sun. “We’re getting closer and closer to discovering the so-called ‘Goldilocks planet,’” Pete [...]
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New planet discovered in our solar system
The planet is called Tyche. Cy the way according to Wiki In ancient Greek city cults, Tyche (????, meaning “luck” in Greek, Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, created [...]
The cause of the dinosaurs extinction
It’s reported that the new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit. “We now have great confidence that an asteroid was the [...]
Water On the Moon
Experts have long suspected there was water on the moon. Confirmation came from data churned up by two Nasa spacecraft that intentionally slammed into a lunar crater last month. “Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount,” said Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for Nasa’s [...]
Earth-Type Planets
About 400 “extrasolar” planets orbiting nearby stars have been detected since 1995, starting with a discovery made by the same team, led by Switzerland’s Michel Mayor, of a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi, 50 light-years away. (One light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles.), usatoday.com reports. “We are on the good track to detect [...]
The Sun "Announced" Global Cataclysm
Canadian scientists reported about the sun intensive nuclear fusion. The researchers recorded the acceleration of fusion reaction of light nuclei into heavier nuclei, which occurs at ultra-high temperature and accompanied with a huge amounts of energy. According to scientific concepts, the main source of energy of the sun and other stars is nuclear fusion reaction. [...]
Try To Find Out Polar Lander
You cant try youeself helping to find out Polar Lander which have crashed in 1999, on Mars. Here are links to the pages providing information and downloads for images of an area where the Mars Polar Lander is suspected to have crashed. MPL was the first mission to the high latitudes of Mars, but failed [...]
LCROSS reached the Moon
On Tuesday, June 23, Toda LCROSS executed a swingby of the Moon, NASA reports. LCROSS reached periselene, its closest approach, at 10:30:33 UT, with the spacecraft passing 1,988 miles (3200 km) from the Moon. The flyby resulted in a gravity assist from the Moon which put LCROSS into its cruise Lunar Gravity Assist Lunar Return [...]
Bright Flash on the Moon
Perhaps we’ll be able to watch a bright flash or plume of dust from the crash of Kaguya on the Moon on Wednesday? Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter will end its nearly two-year mission when it collides with the moon at 1830 GMT. Researchers will study its impact site to watch how radiation and micrometeoroids weather [...]
Planets and Stars in Scale
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