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STS-120 Crews Continue Spacewalk Preparations
2007-11-02 15:53:00 STS-120 has been up there in the International Space Station now for nine days. The crews continue preparing the next spacewalk. The walk is scheduled to happen on Saturday and the goal is to fix the torn solar array. Astronomers who are going to do the spacewalk are mission specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock. ... More About: News , Conti , Prep
Heaviest Small Black Hole Found
2007-11-01 22:45:00 Very impressive news from Nasa! Scientists have discovered the heaviest small black hole in the universe, one with a mass 24-33 times the mass of the Sun. What makes this news impressive is that theoretically black holes with such a mass should not exist. Small black holes are born when stars die and their size ... More About: News , Black , Hole
Jet Streams Seen From Space
2007-10-31 15:50:00 Have you ever thought what a jet stream could look like? You might quickly think that it is just a stream of air, you cannot see it. I have always thought like this until I found the picture on left side. It is borrowed from Nasa’s Earth From Space website. Isn’t it beautiful? Awesome! For ...
STS-120 Continues Mission For One More Day
2007-10-30 22:55:00 STS-120 flight to International Space Station continues mission for one more day in order to look at the damage to the P6 4B solar array. Astronaut Dan Tani found out that the solar array wing is damaged and there are metal pieces around it. The crew has photographed the damage and sent the images down ... More About: News , Mission , Conti , Missi
Star Charts And A Planisphere - Part 2: Using The Charts
2007-10-29 22:00:00 Last time in this series I discussed about the basics of star charts and a planisphere. Now it is time to find out how to use them in order to find the stars. Before talking about the usage of star charts, it is important to notice a couple of things first. Star t practicing the ... More About: Equipment , Charts , Part , The Charts
Sunday Video: Astronomy Lecture - Planets
2007-10-28 08:00:00 As it has become a tradition, I watch a astronomy video on every single Sunday . Today, I have found an interesting video of planets. It is from “Doctordave” in YouTube and it is a pretty long video (84 minutes). Anyhow, if you are new with astronomy and you would like to understand the planets well, ... More About: Video , Videos , Astronomy , Planets
California Wildfire Seen From The Space
2007-10-27 15:00:00 Nasa has released a number of images of Calif ornia wildfire photographed by the satellites in space. A very thick smoke passing over Southern California can be seen in many pictures. These images clearly show the massive size of the wildfire. According to the news, weather conditions in California are getting better and the firefighters are ... More About: Space , Images , Wildfire
Astronomy Picture Of The Day - The Milky Road 20.10.2007
2007-10-26 23:15:00 There is a fantastic astronomy picture of the day on October 20th. There is a road in the picture which continues as “the Milky Road ” in horizon. This is a fantasy view but a spectacular one. I just wonder how long was the exposure time. Anyhow, this is so nice picture that I would like ... More About: Astronomy , Images , Picture , Picture of the day
Andromeda Galaxy Photographed By Harri
2007-10-23 04:19:00 Harri, my collegue at my day job, has posted a fantastic image of Andromeda in his blog. This is not Harri’s first time photographing Andromeda, see the previous post from September 2007. This is good job, I like very much. Read the whole post in Harri’s blog. Harri is good at photographing astronomy. Check out his ... More About: Images , Galaxy , Gala
Star Charts And A Planisphere - Part 1: Basics
2007-10-22 15:15:00 You just read a fashinating article of about Andromeda and you are eager to see it through your binoculars, but there is one problem. You don’t know where it is, right? You know where Orion and M42 are. You can locate the Pleiades as well as Venus, but you have no idea where are objects ... More About: Equipment , Star , Charts , Part , Basics
Lazy Sunday - Flying To Orion Nebula
2007-10-21 10:00:00 It is Sunday morning again and I am sitting here at home with my first coffee. How can coffee taste so good early in the morning? I am addicted to coffee, for sure. I love to watch astronomy videos as well as skiing videos (check out my other blog http://www.homeboyski.com) on Sunday mornings, especially those “journey” ... More About: Videos , Flying , Nebula , Bula
Astronomy Basics: What Can You Actually See On The Nightsky?
2007-10-20 01:45:00 Stars, right? What else? Almost all those tiny spots you see on nightsky are stars. How many stars can be seen without any equipment? Millions? No, around 1000-1500 in cities and around 3000 in countryside. There are so many stars above that a human being cannot just handle them all. Therefore the stars are grouped ... More About: Astronomy , Basics , Ally , Nights
Heaviest Black Hole Discovered
2007-10-19 23:54:00 This is interesting news. According to Nasa, the astronomers have discovered the heaviest black hole in a nearby galaxy. This exceptionally massive black hole was found in Messier 33 galaxy by Chandra telescope and Gemini observatory at Mauna Kea. Jerome Orosz of San Diego State University raises a question “how such a huge black hole ... More About: News , Black , Hole
Basics For Beginners - Telescopes (Part IV)
2007-10-18 23:55:00 So far in this series I have discussed about the basics of telescopes. The second post of this series pointed out the differences between reflectors and refractors. I came across with “truemartian” in YouTube. He has uploaded pretty good videos of the basics of telescopes in YouTube, such as this one discussing about the differences ... More About: Equipment , Part , Basics , Cope
Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit And Opportunity Have Received Extended Finan
2007-10-17 23:56:00 Nasa has provided extended financing for Spirit and Opportunity to continue experimenting Mars until the end of 2009. This is now fifth time the financing is extended. Alan Stern from Nasa says that they are extremely happy to continue the project. Spirit and Opportunity provide fabulous data even though they have now served longer than ... More About: News , Finan
Friedmann?s Three Assumptions For The Evolution Of The Universe
2007-10-16 23:59:00 Have you ever thought about the question “what will happen to this universe”? May be it is misleading to claim that “all this” will end one day, so I would rather ask “how this universe will look like after a VERY long time“. For purpose I do not mention any exact time, ... More About: Evolution , Universe , Theories , The Universe , Assumptions
Lazy Sunday - Hubble Images
More articles from this author:2007-10-14 12:00:00 It is Sunday and we all should take it relaxed. It would be nice to watch something interesting in YouTube. I made a quick search and found this one. Let’s sit back and enjoy these magnificient pictures of Hubble telescope. Share This More About: Videos , Images , Lazy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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