Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 19, 2010,
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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... Continue reading ...
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 ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Thursday, November 18, 2010,
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asteroids
What do you think a little asteroid dust could tell us about the universe?
 - Hayabusa has returned from its mission to asteroid 25143 Itokawa
The return capsule of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's asteroid-hunting Hayabusa spacecraft splashed down safely near Australia on June 13. This marks the return of a space traveller that was launched in 2003 in order to journey to the small near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa to bring back a sample of the asteroid's surface. Hayabusa has been d... Continue reading ...
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 ... Continue reading ...
The James Webb Space Telescope Takes Mankind to the Edge of Infinity
 - The James Webb Space Telescope Journeys to the Beginning of Space and Time
Mankind's journey to the beginning of the universe is about to voyage into unknown areas of the universe in search of answers to questions that were in the minds of the first star gazers. Why are we here? Are we alone in the universe or is life abundant? Plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into ...
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Posted by Warren Wong on Wednesday, November 10, 2010,
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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...
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 - 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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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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... Continue reading ...
Posted by Warren Wong on Friday, November 5, 2010,
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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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 Photos NASA: IBEX recently completed a six-month survey of the sky.
Mankind is preparing to journey to the outer solar system in the decades ahead and part of the preparation is using NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft to take a look at conditions on the edge of the solar system to get an idea of the environment humans and the spacecraft we send to the edge of the solar system will have to withstand to survive. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer has just finished pro... Continue reading ...
 NASA photo
September is one of the year's most entertaining and awe-inspiring months to lay on your back on a dark hill and view the delights of the celestial dance in the sky above you as your ancestors once did on a nightly basis. Four of Sol's dance partners will be in the spotlight in September, 2010, taking part in a nightly dance that includes their less observable brothers and sisters, while Mercury will once again dance privately in the eastern sky each morning during September.
Mighty ...
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Prince George, British Columbia. Canada
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