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Probe to Map
Interstellar Boundary Explorer or the Ibex probe is a small NASA spacecraft (the size of a bus tire) embarks on a two-year mission to give scientists their first view of the happenings at the edge of the solar system, a chaotic region in space where the solar wind from the sun clashes with […]
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25Oct2008 | blogger | 0 comments | Continued
Hubble No More
The Hubble Space Telescope of 18 years has stopped sending pictures three weeks ago. Engineers are still trying to figure out how to fix it beginning with the lengthy process of restoring data transmission. A low-voltage power supply problem prevented one of its cameras from being rebooted properly, and then computer […]
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23Oct2008 | blogger | 0 comments | Continued
Misshapen Solar System
It seems like the astronomers will have to change their models for what the solar looks like because they have reason to believe that the solar system is dented, not round, as earlier thought. They used to assume that the solar system is all symmetric and simple but the recent travelling done […]
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20Jul2008 | blogger | 0 comments | Continued
From Astronomy to Astrology
Browsing over websites containing astrology videos have been a hobby for some to give them their horoscope reading for the day. Horoscope is an astrological chart for a specific person or group that charts and correlates the signs of the zodiac as they are crossed by the sun, moon and planets and […]
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Dead Stars
Pulsars (dead stars) are small and extremely dense stellar objects left behind after massive stars explode. They spin at staggering speeds, generating huge gravity fields and emitting strong beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles which can be picked up by radio-telescopes on Earth (not nanny cams). There are 1,700 […]
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Falling Stars
For 2008, there is a meteor shower on August 12, 2008 called the Perseids, so named because meteor appears to fall from a point in the constellation Perseus. People call meteor shower as shooting stars or falling stars because of the streaks of lights seen across the sky. Bright moonlight makes it difficult […]
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1Jun2008 | blogger | 0 comments | Continued