Astro Earth

E-mail Subscription

Receive an e-mail notification of new posts on this site:

Spotlight Posts

Nostradamus And the Doomsday Comet

Star Gazing Monthly Updates

Apollo Moon Landings Fact or Fiction

Alien Autopsy Film a Furphy

Internet filtering an election sweetener?

Space Shuttle Jitters

Why do marine mammals “beach” themselves?

Global warming fact or fiction?

Blue Moon

Home made WiFi antennas

Unidentified Summer Lights..... Continued

See The Planet Venus By Daylight

[ more ]

Your Name in Space (Part 2)

May 14th 2008 08:37

Model of the Kepler Mission Probe

One of the first names sent into space were engraved on a plate and attached on board Pioneer 10 some years ago. Pioneer 10 has become the first artificial object to leave the solar system

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Would you like to have your name orbiting the Moon?

May 11th 2008 06:15

Artist rendering of the LRO spacecraft

NASA now invites people of all ages to join the lunar exploration journey with an opportunity to send their names to the moon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, spacecraft

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Comet Holmes " Super-Sizing"

May 7th 2008 07:38

Last year comet Holmes made the news is a big way. The seemingly little known comet makes a spectacle of itself practically overnight. Holmes makes a return journey around the Sun every 6.9 years.

Early October 2007 Hubble wide view of comet Holmes

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The Month of May looks very promising for Aquarids meteor shower. There are several meteor showers in the Southern Hemisphere during the year, the Eta Aquarids in May are one of the best. Most meteor showers come from left over fragments of passing comets. In this case the Eta Aquarids are dust particles left behind from comet Halley as it passes through our inner Solar System every 76 years. Earth crosses the orbital path of Halley’s comet every May and October. Over the centuries Halley’s dust particals have spread out along its orbit. The meteors we see now days aren't from Halley's last passage to Earth in 1986 the meteors we now are remnants of dust deposited centuries ago. (when we intersect Halley's orbit again in October this, the meteors we see are called the Orionids).

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Nostradamus And the Doomsday Comet

April 27th 2008 04:46

Is this related to NOSTRADAMUS when he refers to, ASTEROID IMPACT ? This is a grey area where speculation, interpretation and science mix, although an interesting area I prefer it be left to the philosophers. I don’t want to get into an argument about the works of NOSTRADAMUS or attacking the views people may have about his writings. There are many parallels in NOSTRADAMUS writings to fit just about any historic event that has happened on Earth, likewise there are certain passages in his book that can be used to interpret future events. Whether he referring to a comet or an asteroid is uncertain for but for now it does make for interesting ideas.

When you consider a distance of 500 meters it does not mean much, it is just a statement. But when you consider this distance, 500 meters can cause serious consequences on Earth

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Rovers Top Four Years On Mars

April 22nd 2008 12:13

Spirit used its front hazard-identification camera to capture this wide-angle view of its robotic arm extended

Sprit and opportunity have chalked up four years on Mars. These tiny technical rovers have made an incredible journey of survival. They have outlasted their initial three months life span and are still in operation. The twin rovers landed on Mars in January 2004 and NASA plans to extended the mission to 2009. To date, Spirit has driven 7.26 kilometers and had beamed back 102,000 images. Opportunity has driven 11.57 kilometers more than 94,000 images to its credit. Although a total of 18.83 kilometers traveled in four years may not seem much, you need to remember these rovers are tiny and must traverse the Martian landscape with care even with on- board sensors much of the navigation is instigated from Earth with a delay in sending commands back to Earth from Mars taking around 20 minutes for the round trip

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (3)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot how long will it last?

April 18th 2008 03:30

Planet Jupiter : Hubble image

The Red spot is a well known jovian feature that has been around for the last 400 years

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The smallest planet discovered outside our solar system has been detected

April 14th 2008 02:07

The smallest planet discovered outside our solar system has been found by Spanish astronomers.
Team leader Ignasi Ribas speaking at a news conference said "I think we are very close, just a few years away, from detecting a planet like Earth,"
The rocky planet, with a radius about 50 per cent greater than the Earth's, The planet orbits a small red dwarf star 30 light years away in the constellation of Leo

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Comments (4)

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

Messier 74 The Phantom Galaxy

April 11th 2008 03:51

Looking through a telescope can be rewarding, and at times somewhat frustrating. The summer months are great there is an abundance of clear skies, but if you are willing to put up with the mozzies and insects. The winter season has its problems too, cold night’s lenses fogging up. In view of all these “obstacles” I still take out my telescope and just look at the universe. I guess it is like a favourite television show you watch it and then years later enjoy the re-runs.

I remember trying to getting a faint glimpse through my telescope some years ago of Messier 74 with some success. M74 is so faint and difficult to see through amateur telescopes that it has been nicknamed the "Phantom Galaxy". Messier 74 is located around 32 million light years away in the direction of the constellation Pisces, the Fish. It is estimated to contain 100 billion stars, making it a little smaller than the Milky Way

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

The atmosphere on Titan could be identical to that of the early Earth

April 8th 2008 03:51

Titan is the largest moon of Saturn, and the only moon in the Solar System with a dense atmosphere.
The atmosphere on Titan could be identical to that of the early Earth when life started to evolve.The orange haze surrounding the globe could conceal carbon-rich lakes, oceans and storms of chemical rain.

[ Click here to read more ]

Vote

Add Comments

[ Link ]

Posted By: CarlCan - Category: No Category

Email this Post to a Friend

4 Posts

8 Posts

10 Posts