They wander two by two across the cosmos
 Photo courtesy of NASA
Binary asteroids are a pair of asteroids orbiting each other in a two-body system astronomers are currently developing theories on to explain their formation. Astronomers are presently studying binary asteroids in an effort to both confirm recent theories and develop new ones.
Astronomers recently took a closer look at the relative brightness of 35 binary asteroids, in order to determine the relative sizes, spin rates and shape o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, April 26, 2011,
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astronomers
The immortal words of Hamlet "There's a lot more under heaven and earth than is imagined in your philosophy Horatio" are words modern astronomers must learned to embrace fully during the human journey to the beginning of space and time. The solar system in itself is a lot more active and dynamic than first thought and astronomers are finding things just in our own backyard that are currently making modern astronomers smile at their discoveries. Modern astronomers who are essentially detective... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, April 2, 2011,
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" are the immortal words of Carl Sagan a noted figure of the human journey to the beginning of space and time whose path to understanding is an inspiration for millions of young people aspiring to be part of the human search for understanding of the universe. Immortal words leading the current human search for planets with Earth-like characteristics, these words have helped prepare the path the current and next generation of human space e... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, November 23, 2010,
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NASA
 - The DM-2 roars to life. NASA photo.
Reports of the death of NASA's Constellation program appear to have been a little premature as rocket scientists were testing Development Motor-2 (DM-2), currently the world's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor, on August 31 in static tests conducted by ATK Aerospace Systems in Promontory, Utah. The development of the DM-2 has been managed by the Ares Projects Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and despite... Continue reading ...
Secure the Future of Astronomy by Opening Young Minds to the Possibilities in the Night Sky
Take a young mind on your journey to the beginning of the universe and you'll be helping to secure the future of astronomy and possibly humankind. The young minds of the world are the future and will be making the important choices in the century of the environment. The experiences they undertake at this critical age will lay the foundation for everything they believe throughout their lives. Once they... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 19, 2010,
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Black holes
Black holes and humans have more in common than we first thought, we can both be a little off-center
 - Large black holes like this one are found at the center of galaxy M31. NASA photo.
Black holes are unusual celestial objects typically found at the center of galaxies, according to space scientists and astronomers, but space scientists at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands think they have found a black hole a little off-center. Astronomers typically find black holes by lookin... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010,
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Saturn's moons
Could a Cradle For a New Human Genesis be found in Our Solar System?
 - Could Titan act as a cradle for a new human genesis?. NASA photo.
The search for another home to act as a cradle for a new human genesis has turned another page today. Two papers analyzing the chemical activity reported by observations made by NASA's Cassini Orbiter of Saturn's moon Titan report the data is consistent with the possible presence of theoretical methane-based life and how such life forms existing in an ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 11, 2010,
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Mars
This little rock looks like it has an interesting story to tell!
 - This little meteorite is telling planetary scientists studying Mars a few things
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been traveling across the surface of the Red Planet looking at anything that interests scientists, while making its way toward its main goal, Endeavour Crater. The latest object of study for planetary scientists playing with their toys is this meteorite NASA's planetary scientists have a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010,
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Moon
 - Crater Goddard arcs past the Moons' eastern limb during a few nights in October, beginning on the 10th. NASA photo.
The Moon dances, spins and twirls and crater Goddard arcs past your view
 - On the 10th of October you'll see lots of real estate between the Moon's eastern limb and Mare Crisium
Star gazers can pay respects to a true pioneer of human space travel Robert Goddard beginning on the night of October 10th, by taking a journey to the Moon to view the crater named after thi...
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Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, November 9, 2010,
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astronomy
One benefit of the space race for the human race is the spread of scientific knowledge and understanding developed through the space program to commercial and civil uses. The technology developed by NASA and its business partners during the years the American space program has been running is responsible for saving lives around the world. It has also been critical in the former and current development of techniques and equipment currently changing the landscape of many technical fields of stu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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star astronomy
One small cog of a vast wheel of the Virgo supercluster
 - Our Local Group of galaxies
Look upward at the night sky and you're viewing the stars of the Milky Way galaxy as they were hundreds and even thousands of light-years in the past. The time it takes the starlight from these celestial bodies to travel the distance between these stars and Earth is very long in human terms, despite the speed of light. If astronomers indicate that a particular galaxy is sixty-million light-years awa...
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Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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neutron stars
 - This is an artists conception of a slowly rotating neutron star. NASA photos
Neutron star SGR 0418+5729 shows off
The human journey to the beginning of the universe discovered another neutron star on June 5, 2009 that's currently keeping astronomers and space scientists busy looking into the unusual properties of this newest member of the pulsar zoo. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra, Swift and Rossi X-ray observatories, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and ESA’s XMM-Newton te... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 4, 2010,
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galaxies
 Photo NASA: The Sculptor Galaxy heats up
In the next leg of the human journey to the beginning of the universe we travel 11.4 million light years, give or take a few hundred thousand, to the Sculptor Galaxy NGC 253 (the Silver Coin Galaxy) to view an infrared mosaic of images taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Part of the Sculptor group of galaxies (South Polar Group), the 7.6 magnitude Silver Coin Galaxy has infant stars in duty cocoons heating up the galaxies core an...
 NASA photos
Astronomer Matthew Lehnert of the Paris Observatory and a team of astronomers taking part in the human journey to the beginning of the universe recently noticed a small smudge of light on photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope earlier this year. A small smudge of light they now believe could represent light from the earliest galaxy the human journey to the beginning of space and time has viewed up till now, some 13.1 billion years in the past. If current estimates of the age...
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