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Today’s Galaxy…This Hubble Space Telescope image is graceful spiral galaxy NGC 3370, also nicknamed The Silverado Galaxy, is 98 million light years away in the constellation Leo. It doesn’t have well defined spiral arms but more an …more info
Planets to See in Your Sky Tonight (updated daily)…to a more convenient evening planet. By mid August Jupiter will be rising in the east at 9.30 pm (GMT+1). It will continue growing in angular size and brightness, and by mid September the biggest of the planets with it’s collection of four main moons will be at opposition, with a magnitude of -2.78, and angular size 49″. It will then be visible in the evening sky until March 2011..…more info
“The Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse”… Red supergiant Betelgeuse sits at Orion’s left shoulder in the northern winter sky. Everyone has probably looked at it, in this striking constellation. But you will never see it again as just a boring point of light. It is a turbulent, volatile monster…..more info
“Jupiter’s Moon Europa, It’s Ice Crust, and The Question of Alien Life”…secrets of it’s alien world locked away under a crust of 5 to 10 miles of ice. But this ice is not inanimate and inert, it is continually shifting, splitting, and moving. Some of the cracks in the ice span 15 to 20 miles wide. The moon is a messy scene of criss cross lines, cracks, splits, and ice ridges that look like they’ve ….more info
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23rd July 2010, R136a1 The Most Massive Star There is a monster lurking out there, a star that has blown away the upper limits for what was ever thought possible for a sun in the universe. Blazing with an brightness that is literally unimaginable to the human mind, ten million times that of our Sun. You know how you can’t look directly at the Sun for more than a split second or so, and even this can be dangerous…now imagine something ten million times brighter than that. You’d probably have trouble imagining something …More Info
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17/7/2010 Big Stars Do It Like Small Stars With the help of Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have now realised that the big guys of the universe, the most massive stars, do indeed form just like their smaller stellar neighbours. Gas and dust …More Info
5/7/2010 ESA’s Planck Sees The Oldest Light In The Universe Esa’s Planck spacecraft has finished scanning the entire sky in it’s mission to map the light from the beginning of time. Quite a while ago…13.7 billion years in fact, the Big Bang happened, an event of unimaginable power that spewed out …More Info
24/6/2010 Super Winds Rage On Giant Exoplanet Looks like the wind’s picking up…! On an extrasolar planet 150 light years away in the constellation Pegasus, there are winds that would make even the most violent hurricanes on Earth look like a gentle breeze. Astronomers …More Info
4/6/2010 Mars Was Wet And Life Friendly More interesting news from the red planet…Nasa’s Mars rover “Spirit”, the one that got stuck for good in the Martian soil earlier in the year, ”struck gold” when it was examining rocks way back in 2005. The rover was …More Info
27/5/2010 Mars’ Spiral Ice Cap Pattern Solved This is the northern ice cap of the cold desert world Mars, it contains mainly water ice together with frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice). But what you probably can’t help noticing though is the strange spiral …More Info
18/5/2010 Titan Shows Earthlike River Beds on Xanadu Imagine looking up at our Moon with a telescope and not seeing the barren, dusty place pummeled by craters we all know so well but a moon with an atmosphere, rivers, vast lakes, rain, wind, clouds, and even tides…dream on!! …More info
13/5/2010 Herschel Sees a Hole, Not a Cloud This is the ghostly looking reflection nebula NGC 1999 near to the famous Orion Nebula 1,500 light years away. NGC 1999 shines from the light of a young star embedded within it, and has been known about for a while. …more info
6/5/2010 Herschel Sees a Big Baby This is the recent image taken from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory of a baby giant that is still growing. Herschel’s special talent is to peer into space with it’s sensitive detectors tuned to the far infrared and see the coldest …more info
27/4/2010 ESA’s Planck Sees The Stuff of Star Formation Esa’s Planck Observatory is a mission to study the cosmic microwave background radiation.The CMB is a remnant of what was emitted way back through the depths of time to just a few hundred thousand years…more info
21/4/2010 Nasa’s New Solar Observarory’s First image Our 4.5 billion year old star is a seething restless cauldron of million degree plasma, big enough to swallow 1.3 million Earth’s in it’s volume. It’s surface is twisted and contorted by millions of north and south poles…more info
13/4/2010 The Rosette Nebula’s Baby Giants
8/4/2010 Epsilon Aurigae is Seen Eclipsed By Dust Cloud Epsilon Aurigae is a star in the constellation Auriga, near the brightest star Capella. In this stunning and eerie image a vast dark dust cloud can be seen passing across our line of sight in front of the star, eclipsing it. This star has been the subject of much…more info
2/4/2010 Centaurus A Black Hole Creates Enormous Plumes A huge power house rages at the heart of the active galaxy Centaurus A, 12 million light years away. The power house is the central supermassive black hole, estimated at hundreds…more info
do you think pluto should be considered a planet?
No, in my opinion I don’t think it should be considered a planet,it’s definition as a dwarf planet seems right.
Pluto is just 2,390 kilometeres across…smaller than the moons Triton, Europa, Ganymede, Titan, Io, Callisto, and 70% the size of Earth’s moon.
It’s a large body in the Kuiper belt, and doesn’t fit the designation of what a planet is, also other dwarf planets have recently been found that are larger such as Eris, in 2005.
Although Pluto is still a very interesting place http://www.astronomycentral.co.uk/hubble-sees-pluto-change-colour
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It is thought that the basis of our universe is that of hydrogen. There is a necessity to go beyond the atomic level, to that of what forms individual atoms. To do this a person needs to determine what the basis of all physical existence is, not just the ‘lumps’ of it. There is a manner whereby this is able to be done. It is by dividing physical time to its lowest value and see what would be necessary in order for this value to be formed into a mass.
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