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Astro Earth - December 2007

Apollo 11 Tapes Missing

December 31st 2007 16:53
At least the original video tapes of that historic event seem to be. NASA seems to have misplaced original Apollo 11 video recordings from those historic lunar missions. Included in the lost tapes are videos made during the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon and Neil Armstrong's historic voice message "One small step ….."


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mysterious illness form Space?

December 29th 2007 07:44
Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery decent to Earth.

A local health department official reported that shortly after the crash residents complained of headaches and nausea brought on by a "strange odor


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Star Wars

December 27th 2007 06:52
The universe is a vast place this term is very much understated despite this great expanse it is never dull or boring. There is always something new something exploding, Sun’s dying new ones taking their place.
For example two galaxies one devouring the other, shot by a powerful jet from a super massive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new findings from NASA observatories. This never-before witnessed galactic violence may have a profound effect on planets in the jet's path and trigger a burst of star formation in its destructive path given the name “death star”

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Asteroid May Strike Mars in January

December 24th 2007 07:09
According to scientists at the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe a newly discovered asteroid has a 1 in 75 chance of hitting Mars on January 30.
The asteroid, known as 2007, estimated diameter is about 100 metres if it does strike Mars on January 30, it would cause an explosion equivalent to several megatonnes of TNT. Asteroid 2007 WD5 is about half-way between Earth and Mars and closing the distance at a speed of about 27,900 miles per hour.

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Martian Encounter This Month

December 21st 2007 07:27
Mars encounter Dec 2007


This month is the closest Mars has been to Earth in about 26 months this occurred on 20th December 21, 2007


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Space Mail Gone Missing

December 20th 2007 04:56
Design rendition of the probe : image ESA


That's what students from the Netherlands where hoping to prove when their project, called YES2, was launched back in September this year, the project will act much like a pendulum


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Time Space and Laser research

December 18th 2007 09:16
The search for extra terrestrials has been ongoing so far there is not much to show for all the effort and financial resources.

Although we humans like to have our “space” we still don’t want to be the alone in the universe. So far the search for E.Ts has been conducted mostly in the radio spectrum we listen with our radio telescopes and all we hear mostly is galactic noise the sound of hydrogen atoms buzzing around the great void of space and time


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Radiation flashes sparks cosmic mystery

December 15th 2007 06:17
Faint, fleeting flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in astrophysics.
Let me clarify the speed of light nothing can go faster than the speed of light however light t travels faster in a vacuum but light moves slower in air and water than it does in a vacuum.

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Mysterious flashing lights seen on the Moon

December 11th 2007 07:12
Mysterious flashing lights seen on the Moon, I realise that we are in the festive season
But flashing lights? People have claimed to have seen flashing lights on the Moon for around 1500 years the Babylonians, and Chinese have written texts relating to lights seen on the surface of the Moon.

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Spirit makes a run for the

December 9th 2007 03:05
Yet another Mars roving spacecraft.

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a new color image of the feature named the "Home Plate" in Gusev Crater on Mars


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Mars Express

December 8th 2007 08:02
3D view Noctis Labyrinthus region, the ‘Labyrinth of the Night’ on Mars.
Mars Express launched by the European Space Agency in 2003 has completed 5,000 orbits investigating Martian mysteries, Mars Express has revised our knowledge of the planet. Some of the most visually astonishing results have been returned by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which has produced magnificent, 3-D color images of the diverse Martian surface.

One of the most surprising discoveries has been the relatively young appearance of the country-sized volcanoes of the Tharsis ridge, suggesting they may have been active only a few million years ago. The images also show that glacial landforms are common covering numerous areas of the planet, with glacial activity continuing in some areas until perhaps 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. Among the peculiar landforms imaged by High-Resolution Stereo Camera is what appears to be a recently frozen body of water in Elysium, close to the equator


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Comet Holmes bows out

December 6th 2007 08:56
Scientists employed one of the largest CCD cameras to image Comet 17P/Holmes as it fades from view.


Comet 17P/Holmes, which graced our skys witnessed a sudden outburst that made it visible to the unaided eye, now is fading from sight. However, before it returns to the obscurity from which it came. (Comet Holmes was discovered in 1892) astronomers at the MMT Observatory take one final look before it fades back into obscurity


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Dark Matter and the Universe

December 4th 2007 08:09
In the beginning the Universe was young, it was almost smooth and featureless (sounds like a verse form the book of Genesis). As it grew older and developed, it became structured and eventually ordered.
We know that our solar system is organized into planets (including the Earth!) orbiting around the Sun. But our little corner of the universe is comparably small. On a much larger scale stars collect themselves into galaxies. Our Sun is an average star in an average galaxy called the Milky Way. The Milky Way contains about 100 billion stars. Yes, that's 100,000,000,000 stars! On still larger scales, individual galaxies are concentrated into groups, or what astronomers call clusters of galaxies.

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Black holes white holes and other things

December 1st 2007 08:32
The supernova remnant RCW 86 Photo: Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Black holes we have heard or used the term in conversation at some time or other.

There are many popular misconceptions concerning black holes, many of them orchestrated by Hollywood. Television, movies have portrayed them as time-traveling tunnels to another dimension, cosmic vacuum cleaners devouring everything in sight. It can be said that black holes are really just the evolutionary life cycle of massive stars that have used up all their fuel


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