Astronomy

A total solar eclipse will took place on August 01, 2008. The eclipse is visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Canada and extends across northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China where it will end at sunset. A partial […]

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Today, June 30 2008, marks the 100th anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska event. In the early morning of 30 June, 1908, witnesses told of a gigantic explosion and blinding flash. Thousands of square kilometres of trees were burned and flattened. Fortunately, the gigantic blast is happened on unpopulated area in Tunguska, Siberia (now part […]

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Summer solstice for this year will occur on June 20, 2008 at 23:59 UTC. During his event, the Sun appears to be directly overhead at noon for places situated at latitude 23.44° north, known as the tropic of Cancer. This event marks the beginning of summer in northern hemisphere and winter in southern hemisphere.
The […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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On December 20th, 2007, United Nations has declares 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy. The event marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope for astronomical observations. This is a momentous event that initiated 400 years of astronomical discoveries and triggered a scientific revolution which profoundly affected our worldview.
The vision of […]

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On April 24th, eighteen years ago, astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope. This marks beginning of the new era of the space research. Hubble’s discoveries have transformed the way scientists look at the universe. Its ability to show the universe in unprecedented detail has turned astronomical conjectures into concrete certainties. […]

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Vernal equinox (spring equinox) for this year will occur on 20 March, 05.48 UTC. The moment marks the first day of spring season in Northern Hemisphere, and autumn in Southern Hemisphere.
In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox corresponds to the center of the Sun crossing the celestial equator moving southward. It is also the […]

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According to NASA’s Eclipse Home Page, there is two eclipses happened during this month. The first is Annular Solar Eclipses that took place on February 7, 2008, and the second one is Total Lunar Eclipse on February 21. The first eclipse will be visible from a wide track, which traverses Antarctica and southern regions […]

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Winter Solstice for this year will occur on December 22, 2007 at 6:08 AM UT (Universal Time), when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn. This event marks beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
At winter solstice, the sun appears at its lowest point in the […]

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