Monthly Archives: August 2009

EXO-PLANETS – ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE DISCOVERY OF LIFE OUTSIDE OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Posted on 08/27/2009 by Michael Busch

An Extrasolar planet also called Exoplanet is defined basically as a planet, outside our solar system, which revolves around a star (like our Sun). As of July 31, 2009 there are exactly 357 exoplanets listed in Extrasolar planet Encyclopedia.
How do [...]

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WHEN WILL MAN GO TO MOON AGAIN?

Posted on 08/27/2009 by Michael Busch

Let us start from the beginning of this well known “Space Race”. This so called, analogy to arms race, was an informal competition between United States and Soviet Union to see who could outrun each other in advancements in space [...]

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TRIPLE ECLIPSE – An Extremely Rare Astronomical Event

Posted on 08/25/2009 by Michael Busch

The Triple eclipse was seen with a beginning of a lunar eclipse on July 7th, succeeded by a solar eclipse on July 22nd, and will be topped off with another lunar eclipse on August 7th. Some of the [...]

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Stellarium – a free open source planetarium

Posted on 08/22/2009 by Michael Busch

This is just a short post about an interesting piece of software I recently found: Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/).
I have not tried it in depth yet but it sounds promising – have a look at the feature list from the homepage:
in version [...]

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Revolutionary software in lunar research – PHOTLUN

Posted on 08/20/2009 by Michael Busch

Virtual lunar Atlas is a program that allows us to observe and study the moon and its surface. It was developed by Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley. This program is basically developed for  cheering  special interest for astronomers, amateurs, and [...]

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When will man land on mars?

Posted on 08/18/2009 by Michael Busch

The Red Planet has interested mankind when Mars was seen as a small dot in the sky in the earlier days. Humans chose to explore Mars as it was the planet which was closest to Earth. The primary reason why [...]

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Gone are the dark clouds that made “Hubble” blind….

Posted on 08/13/2009 by Michael Busch

Astronauts from the Atlantis on Thursday gifted the Hubble Space Telescope with a deeper insight into the universe in the form of a new farsightedness-special camera eye during the arduous spacewalks to fix the renowned observatory. It gives Hubble the [...]

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The degenerating dwarf

Posted on 08/04/2009 by Michael Busch

The term White Dwarf was first coined by Willem Luyten. A white dwarf also known as degenerate dwarf is a small star composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. It has mass comparable to that of the Sun and, its volume is [...]

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The black void that fills the Universe (black holes)

Posted on 08/02/2009 by Michael Busch

Often considered as cosmic vacuum cleaners, black holes are much more mysterious as well as interesting, captivating minds of both scientists as well as common people. In fact, they are the evolutionary end point of massive stars.
To gain more insight [...]

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