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The Windswept Northern Polar Cap of Mars

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 19, 2010, In : Mars

: Mars north polar cap has a few interesting features for star gazers to see. NASA photo.

Scientists using the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to look beneath Mar's north polar ice cap and get an idea of the lay of the ground think they know how Chasma Boreale and the much discussed series of spiral troughs were formed. The formation of Chasma Boreale and enigmatic spiral troughs have been talked about for four decades by space scientists and am...

Begin Planning Your Journey to Comet 103P/Hartley

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 19, 2010, In : Comet 103P/Hartley

Board your time machine to the stars near the end of October

: Comet 103P/Hartley leaves a trail as it travels through the inner solar system

September is the time for you and the kids to begin planning a journey to a celestial body that will be at its closest point to Earth and Sol, sometime near the end of October. Comet 103P/Hartley has been in the news, of late, as NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will fly by Comet 103P/Hartley, in the first part of November. Observers boarding their ...

Cradle for a New Human Genesis

Posted by Warren Wong on Saturday, November 13, 2010,

The search for a new home for human life has started

: Planets with water are the goal of astronomers. NASA photo.

The search for planets capable of acting as a cradle for a new human genesis has begun. Astronomers are searching the night sky above you for planets circling distant stars within what space scientists refer to as a stars life-zone or habitable-zone. This zone is an area at an orbital distance from the star in question that allows for the formation of the elements of life ...

October's Early Morning Sky Puts on a Show

Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 11, 2010, In : meteorites

Comet Halley dust rains down upon Earth in the early mornings of October

Periodic trips through the inner solar system has left a little dust behind. NASA photo.

Modern star gazers can take in a show that has been entertaining star gazers for thousands of years. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on the night of October 21, the Moon will also be in full phase on this night, and this light will drown out the light of all but the most energetic of meteorites. The Orionid m...

The Planetary Zoo is Expanding Accommodations for New Arrivals

Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010, In : exo-planets

: What would life be like on a planet with such a weird orbit?

"Journey to the Beginning of Space and Time" to view the planetary zoo

: Looking for a new place to live?

Space scientists looking at the rapidly expanding menagerie of planets being added to the planetary zoo keep coming back from their journey wide-eyed and smiling like a kid that just got the key to the candy store. The latest editions to the planetary zoo are orbiting celestial bodies in orbits totally out-of-whack...

Collisions in Space

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

: Something might have hit THEMIS-B. NASA photos.

Considering the volume of bodies circling in the solar system one might think that collisions between bodies in the solar system is commonplace, but in fact collisions between bodies circling in the solar system are relatively uncommon. This is what makes a recent report by NASA of a possible collision of one of their spacecraft with a meteorite a highlight of sorts, or at least something relatively unusual. NASA reported a possible colli...

An Infinite Number of Galaxies?

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

: Just how many galaxies is an infinite number, anyway? NASA photos.

So many planets, so much diversity! Can life really be limited to Earth?

The galaxies you'll view during your journey to the beginning of the universe are like grains of sand on the beach, or snowflakes, with no two galaxies looking exactly the same to viewers. Astronomers have also viewed a number of different types of galaxies on the human journey to the beginning of the universe that they...

The More We Look, the More We Wonder?

Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010, In : exo-planets

NASA photos
Do we really know anything?

The more astronomers look around on the human journey to the beginning of the universe, the more they realise we really have only scratched the surface of the known universe, and we really know nothing. This is exciting, for sure, for astronomers viewing the universe, but it means space scientists are constantly reworking theories and ideas concerning the universe and the way things really work. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to vi...

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Showing Tag: "astronomers" (Show all posts)

The Windswept Northern Polar Cap of Mars

Begin Planning Your Journey to Comet 103P/Hartley

Cradle for a New Human Genesis

October's Early Morning Sky Puts on a Show

The Planetary Zoo is Expanding Accommodations for New Arrivals

Collisions in Space

An Infinite Number of Galaxies?

The More We Look, the More We Wonder?

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