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Phoenix Landed Successfully

1 comment dhani — May 28, 2008 / 10:16 pm

I must admit, this post is actually too late. There are some trouble on this blog’s server, so I cannot post on this important event very soon. But the show must go on. Now we’ve got the server up again, so, here we goes. As you probably knew, on May 25, the NASA’s Phoenix lander have [...]

Send Your Name to the Moon!

Comments dhani — May 13, 2008 / 8:28 pm

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission is the first step in NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon by 2020, and your name can reach there first. Cool, isn’t it? NASA invite everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can [...]

Found: Missing Piece of Cosmological Puzzle

Comments dhani — May 11, 2008 / 10:27 pm

Most of the matter and energy in the Universe is of unknown nature, so they are called “dark matter” and “dark energy”. Dark energy accounts for 72% of the total energy in the Universe, while some 23% of the total amount of matter/energy is made of this so-called “dark matter”, which is composed of heavy [...]

Astronomy Day

Comments dhani — May 8, 2008 / 12:27 am

On May 10th we will celebrate Astronomy Day. It is an astronomical PR event that helps highlight ways the general public can get involved with astronomy - or at least get some of their questions about astronomy answered. At the day, hundreds of astronomy clubs, science museums, observatories, universities, planetariums, laboratories, libraries, and nature centers [...]

Galaxies Gone Wild!

Comments dhani — May 5, 2008 / 12:14 am

Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies also have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing sites of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new shapes. Celebrating 18th launch anniversary of the Hubble Space [...]

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