According to newscientist.com it is midnight on September 22, 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colorful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting [...]
Category Archives: Space
Hands of God
This beautiful image is a X-ray nebula photo of a small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter that spans 150 light years was made by NASA. At the center of this image made by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. The [...]
Comets and Stars
It’s expected that a new comet named Lulin, swinging around the sun, soon will be more visible to stargazers, perhaps even with the naked eye. Amateur astronomer Gregg Ruppel took the image of this unusual Comet above on January 11, 2009 then shared images he has acquired. Why Comet Lulin is unusual? Because its orbit [...]
Leonids Meteor Shower
Leonids Meteor Shower November 2008 be ready to watch tonight. It’s expected that tonight will fall down on the Earth more than 480 meteors. This is the spectacle no doubt deserved your attention. It happens one time in 33 years, so run out to watch!
Chinese Super Space Drive
Chinese are in the process of “impossible” space drive, world press agencies report and going to release a demonstration version soon. As Chinese researchers say, they found the value that will open the new possibilities for space exploration. If they’re right, it will give the Chinese a decisive military advantage in space. As it is [...]
Total Solar Eclipse
On Audust, 1 the total solar eclipse will blot out the sun. If you want to learn more about what is an eclipse of the Sun, what causes eclipses and why, how often do eclipses happen and when is the next eclipse of the Sun, You can easely get the answers to these questions online. [...]
Large Hadron Collider
The gigantic scientific instrument called Large Hadron Collider has to be started up today in a world’s largest and most respected centre for scientific research near Geneva at the border Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. This grand scientist experiment will help physicists to learn more about the laws of Nature. What is the [...]
ATLAS and CMS
While the discussion about ATLAS and CMS, general-purpose particle physics experiments is continuing scientists do their work. The ambition project called for help to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in LHC collisions has involved approximately 2,000 physicists from some 35 countries. They will use the data collected from the complex ATLAS [...]
Phoenix Landed on Mars.
Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008 to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm, NASAreports. Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander [...]
Mars Rover program is Continuing.
On Monday we’ve head that scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA because their budget was being cut by $4 million. But on the next day NASA says that it has absolutely no plan to turn off either [...]