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The Phobos-Grunt received its first substantial funding in 2007. By the beginning of 2008, the Phobos-Grunt project was [...]
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The Cassini spacecraft watches over the northern latitudes of Saturn's geologically active moon [...]
Bioluminescence and Star »
I recently came across this image of bioluminescence in the Gippsland Lakes. My first impression when I [...]
Journey through the Solar »
When I heard that Kepler had some candidate planets in the habitable zone of their stars I wondered what [...]
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Your guide to finding Mars »
January 2010 is a great time of year to find Mars in the night sky. Each evening it rises about 7.30 and it is easily identified with a very red glow in [Read More]
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The next full moon will be the largest in about 20years but it can be hard to tell the [...]
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A Sense of Planetary Scale »
A great video showing what it would be like if different planets in out solar system shared an orbit with our Moon. Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo. [Read More]
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Hubble Watch
Oldest Galaxy Record May be broken (Again)
Hubble appears to have beaten the record for the oldest galaxy observed by over 120Million light years. While there may be some confirmation to do on the discovery , the candidate Galaxy named UDFj-39546284, is seen as it was just 480 million years after the Big Bang at a distance of 13.2 billion light years away. Current theory suggests we [...]
A cosmic question mark
To truly appreciate this picture you have to click to see the larger image. It represents an unusual shaped galaxy never before documented. The galaxy is curling around itself like a question mark. This picture was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. It is NGC 4696, the largest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster. NGC 4696 is an [...]
An “Island Universe” in the Coma Cluster
AUGUST 10, 2010: A long-exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows a majestic face-on spiral galaxy located deep within the Coma Cluster of galaxies, which lies 320 million light-years away in the northern constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted [...]
M31-Milky Way simulated collision
It may be a few billion years away(about 4.5), but it is believed that the two largest galaxies in our local group will merge. The radial velocity of the Andromeda galaxy with respect to the Milky Way can be measured by examining the Doppler shift of spectral lines from stars in the galaxy, but the transverse velocity cannot be directly [...]