August 3, 2008 – 11:52 am
Total Solar Eclipse Images From Around The World. (Huffington Post)
Thousands of people gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck.
People have been recording solar eclipses for perhaps 4,000 years, and they typically inspire a combination of dread, fascination and [...]
View at boston.com.
The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched last week, becoming the 154th manned US space mission.
One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography.
It would be really unbelievable if we can just fly around and view it ourselves.
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Mysterious Night-Shining Clouds.
October 19, 2007 – 8:40 pm
From Daily Mail.
It’s got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there. The discovery was announced today by a team of European astronomers, using a telescope in La Silla in the Chilean Andes.
The [...]
October 5, 2007 – 1:17 am
From NASA.
An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust - enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger - swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our [...]
September 8, 2007 – 11:56 pm
From Physorg.com.
Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google’s sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.
This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to [...]
September 7, 2007 – 10:38 pm
View at HubbleSite.
It’s beautiful!
From National Geographic.
The noctilucent clouds form in the upper layer of the Earth’s atmosphere in summer and are made of tiny ice crystals.
Scientists don’t know much about how the clouds form, or why they have been appearing more often at lower latitudes and glowing brighter. Some scientists suspect their proliferation is related to increasing greenhouse [...]