tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16403099189365239312024-10-05T07:37:21.409+05:30only astronomy permitted, uh!<br> <br> Hi, everyone.As the name of the blog suggests the blog is dedicated to astronomy.Post, share do whatever you want but do stick to the topic.<br> <br> <hr>Astronomer Amoghhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11164930426143500604noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1640309918936523931.post-57083838452629576902011-01-26T11:17:00.000+05:302011-01-26T11:17:41.721+05:30

35 hours of exposure time by R. Jay GaBany resulted in this deep, detailed view of NGC 891. Credit: R. Jay Gabany.This image is a “first light” for noted amateur astronomer R. Jay GaBany’s new observatory, and it might be the deepest, most detailed view of the iconic edge-on spiral galaxy NCG 891. This first photograph from his new observatory in California includes almost 35 hours of exposure

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The Challenger 25th Anniversary Tribute SongCheck out this song by Stephen Kay &amp; David Alvey. For a tribute to Challenger space shuttle (STS-51L) nearing it's 25th Anniversary.

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APOD: 2011 January 17 - Night and Day above Almost Planet SounioCheck out this picture by Chris KotsipoulosCredit &amp; Copyright - Chris Kotsipoulos

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A radar image of asteroid 2010 JL33, generated from data taken by NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on Dec. 11 and 12, 2010. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechIntriguing details about the physical properties and characteristics of a recently discovered asteroid have just been unveiled in amazing images obtained using a large radar dish in California. The radar dish serves as a key component of

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Cepheid Variable Star. Credit: Hubble Space TelescopeWhen Hubble first discovered a Cepheid variable in the galaxy M31, the universe grew. Previously, many astronomers had held that the fuzzy “spiral nebulae” were small patches of gas and dust within our own galaxy, but through the Period-Luminosity relationship which allowed him to determine the distance, Hubble demonstrated that these were “

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Check out this awesome pair of inspiring videos about NASA and Space Exploration. They are set to the ever inspiring words of Carl Sagan – reading from his book, “The Pale Blue Dot”. And these beautifully crafted videos were not created by NASA, but rather by people inspired by NASA and Carl Sagan to dream about distant frontiers even in these times of tough budgets for NASA.

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Rhea, Saturn's rings and some sister moons. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteJia-Rui C. Cook from the Cassini team sent out an alert that raw images from Cassini’s closest flyby of Saturn’s moon Rhea have begun streaming to Cassini’s raw image page, and they are well worth a look. At closest approach, Cassini came within about 69 kilometers (43 miles) of Rhea’s surface on Jan. 11. But

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The Milky WayNot very long ago we published a news release about the latest (and largest) deep sky survey image ever. The implications behind such a massive undertaking at such incredible resolution means you could spend hours studying just a few square millimeters of such a photo and find any amount of undiscovered information. Do professional astronomers have the time to search? Or can anyone

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Six areas of the sky in which distant galaxies can be seen by Planck, overlaid on the Planck’s first all-sky image. The emission from our own Galaxy, seen in blue and white, has to be removed before the distant population of galaxies can be seen. Each square inset image is around the same size as the Full Moon. Image credit: ESA / Planck Collaboration.The mission began on 13th August 2009 with a

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From a NASA press release: Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about

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This diagram explains the formation of the strange green object known as Hanny’s Voorwerp. Astronomers believe that it is part of the long streamer of gas that extends from galaxy IC 2497, lit up brightly by the searchlight beam of a recently extinguished quasar.Almost four years ago a group of astronomers known as the Galaxy Zoo made a very exciting discovery – one they named “Hanny’s Voorwerp”.

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Composite image of the dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10. Hubble Space Telescope data is colored red, green and blue, Very Large Array data is yellow and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory data is purple. Cross marks presumed location of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy.It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a million times more massive than our Sun! Just how big do you have to be to hide something really

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A new look at the Eagle Nebula by Hubble. Credit: ESA/Hubble &amp; NASAThere are some stellar powerhouses inside the Eagle Nebula, and Hubble has captured a collection of these hot, blue stars. These dazzling stars are an open star cluster called NGC 6611, whose fierce ultraviolet glow make the surrounding Eagle Nebula glow brightly. But there are also areas in this image that look dark and

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Check out this slideshow on Discovery website -&nbsp;[Click here] Source: Discovery News

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1Beginning of the second decade of the third millennium. 1Moon near Antares&nbsp;(30° from Sun, morning sky) at 20h UT. 2Moon near Mercury&nbsp;(21° from Sun, morning sky) at 16h UT. 3Earth at Perihelion&nbsp;(closest to Sun) at 19h UT. The Sun-Earth distance is 0.983341 a.u. or 147.1 million kilometers. •&nbsp;Sun at Aphelion and Perihelion&nbsp;(Anthony Ayiomamitis) 4Quadrantid Meteor

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This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute › Full image and caption Unexpected dynamics in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, or stratosphere, including the birth and motion of a dark vortex wider than Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Southwest Research Institute › Full

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[Click here] Source: Discovery News

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A technician begins to remove thermal sensors and foam insulation from space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Photo Credit: NASA/Frank MichauxDiscovery’s woes deepened this week with NASA engineers finding even more cracks in the orbiter’s external tank. The first crack was noted shortly after a leak was discovered on the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (

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Happy New Year everyone. Hope we have clear skies&nbsp;through out&nbsp;the year and also get more breakthroughs in astronomy, astrophysics, rocket science, etc.

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Check these photo's out -&nbsp;Click

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Santa Maria Crater in 3 D on Sol 2451. Santa Maria is a football-field-size crater - about 90 m wide and 12 m deep - which dominates the scene in this stereo view from NASA's Opportunity rover. Opportunity sits about 5 meters from the steep western edge of this scientifically interesting impact crater which displays signatures of water bearing minerals at the center of this mosaic. Opportunity

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2010 was packed with interesting, exciting and breakthrough events and discoveries.&nbsp;We asked you to vote on the top 10&nbsp;stories of the year, and below are the results. Some of you asked how we chose the 17 news stories to pick from and perhaps thought we missed out on some rather important astronomical discoveries of the year. The stories to vote on were chosen based on the “most viewed”

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Apollo 11 landing site. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University, 3-D by Nathanial Burton-Bradford.With the&nbsp;Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera&nbsp;constantly snapping images of the lunar surface, we have been able to see most of the Apollo landing sites with better and better detail. Image editing wizard Nathanial Burton-Bradford has now “3-D-ified” all the landing sites except Apollo 16

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One final rocket launch in 2010 took place as Arianespace successfully launched the Hispasat 1E and KOREASAT 6 telecommunication satellites aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. Liftoff was at 4:27 p.m. EST (21:27 GMT). KOREASAT 6 is a commercial telecommunications satellite of the KT Corporation of the Republic of Korea and was built by Orbital Sciences

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It has been another great year in space, and the European Space Agency has put together a video highlight reel for 2010. They look at the achievements in different areas, including Earth Observation, Science, Human Spaceflight and Telecommunications. From the launch of Cryosat to the Planck sky scan, from Node 3 Cupola completing the ISS to Paolo Nespoli launching on the Soyuz to the ISS,

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