Astroearth - by CMoreStars

A little something that will keep the conspiracy theorists happy. The problem arose after residents in several countries were kept awake(perhaps the remnants of a bad curry) by a "snoring" sky. People in Malaysia Hungary and Canada heard what seems to be the same sound that continued ove...

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Technology certainly has its advantages. With the advent of smart cell phones the task of finding constellation and planets has been made simpler. Want to find out where a particular constellation or planet is located in the night sky but you were not sure where to look. All you is your sma...

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southern hemisphere animation looking towards the west I have taken the liberty of putting some visual animations on how the stars and planets move within the night sky. Usually I have placed a printable star map for visual reference.Star maps are used to show where the stars planets and...

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Global temperature do tend to fluctuate from year to year. Last years average global temperature was 14.4C, making 2011 the hottest years in the last decade. The start towards milder temperatures this year especially in the southern hemisphere is due to La Nina. La Nina`s have occurred w...

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Image you are a research scientist. You and your research team have been working on a cancer protein cell for the last dozen years. You peer down a microscope and you glimpse what looks like perfect smiley face staring back at you. The research team were somewhat stunned at what they saw. ...

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Meteorites falling to Earth occur on a daily basis, most go unnoticed as they make their fiery re-entry through Earths atmosphere. Some meteorite fragments make it to the ground although a majority burn up in the Earths upper atmosphere. On occasions we do get fireballs lighting up the nig...

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Trying to see a black hole is like trying to see an invisible eye of immense proportion. Black holes are so very large yet we cannot see them, the mind boggles. We can see the effects that a black hole may have on an adjacent star or galaxies,yet the enigma remains hidden from our gaze, It a...

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The ESA space craft Planck finally lost its cool after two and a half years of observing the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of deep space. The spacecrafts High Frequency Instrument had exhausted its on-board coolant gases over this past few days and has effectively reached the en...

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For northern hemisphere residents if you suffer from insomnia or just out and about after 1 a.m. local time Monday (Jan. 16) you will have a chance to see some interesting celestial arrays. Look low in the east-southeast you will see the moon, a bright planet (Saturn) and a bright star (Spic...

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The age old question are we the only planet with Sentience life in the universe For the present this question cannot be fully answered one way or the other. But it is heartening to know that Our galaxy the Milky Way is has far more planets than previously thought, boosting the odds that a...

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A mock up of the Orion 8 tonne deep space capsule undergoing an impact test into a pool of water. The water test is to simulate a landing at sea. The Orion payload will be eventually launched into space by Delta IV. The Orion spacecraft is designed to carry a crew of four astronauts. A...

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Even if you are a casual observer of the night sky perhaps you may have wondered if only I could take a picture of what I have seen. During the film era taking pictures of the night sky was no mean feat. Bulky cameras and expensive film stock not to mention you had to have a knowledge of p...

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The universe has a dark passenger. The current consensus is that a quarter of the universe is made of dark matter.(Dark matter and dark energy are two entirely different entities). Dark matter by its very essence is a mysterious substance that is practically invisible. The only way of d...

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The clock is ticking, it is not your average run of the mill clock. I am referring to the Doomsday clock dating back to 1947. Scientists created the Doomsday clock as a barometer of how close the world is to an nuclear oblivion. In 2007 the clock was at five minutes to midnight the...

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ltiframe src"httpwww.weatherchannel.com.auweather-widget.aspxstyle" style"width300pxheight250pxoverflowhiddenmargin0px" scrolling"no" marginheight"0" marginwidth"0" frameborder"0"gt ltiframegt Can you out run old Grimsy, or will you be too slow to even kno...

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The world is not going to end any time soon as others would suggest. Although the world will end eventually it may take a few years perhaps another 3.5 billion years or so. Of cause thats not discounting that some thing else might cause our demise. World famine climate change global war...

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The Sun has been reasonably quiet so far during this 11 year period. We are currently heading towards the peak of the 11 year sun cycle towards the middle of 2013. Although our sun does go through periods of relatively low activity every now and then sudden flares can occur, and these peaks are...

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While we are on the subject of space junk The Failed Russian Mars probe Phobos-Grunt is due to burn up in the upper Earths atmosphere in early January 2012. The space probe was originally designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos, one of two moons circling Mars. Its purpose was to gather...

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Strange things fall from the sky from time to time and I guess bladders in the shape of a sphere are no exception. If you found a strange looking metal ball in the middle of a remote grass land in Namibia you could be forgiven for thinking that it may have come from outer space. Perhaps...

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Transitory comets come in from the cold outer reaches of the Solar System. They make the tremendous journey some taking many decades to complete the round trip around the Sun. Some comets do not survive the round trip. Many comets simply fade or are destroyed by the intense gravitational forc...

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