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The Formation of Binary Asteroids

Posted by Warren Wong on Sunday, January 1, 2012, In : binary asteroids 
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...


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Development Motor-2 Still Has Uses for NASA

Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, In : 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...


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Take a Young Mind on Your Journey to the Beginning of the Universe

Posted by Warren Wong on Monday, November 22, 2010, In : teaching kids astronomy 

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...


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The Search for a Cradle for a New Human Genesis Begins

Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010, In : 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 ...


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Space Race Lends a Hand to the Doctors

Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, November 9, 2010, In : 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...


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Millions of Light-Years and Infinity Inbetween

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : 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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Astronomers Bring Another Strange Creature to the Pulsar Zoo

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : 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...


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The First Stars and Galaxies

Posted by Warren Wong on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, In : Beginning of the universe 

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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