Do you like pictures of outer space? Are you fascinated by the unbelievable beauty of some of the photographs of the universe? Then the Astronomy Calendar 2010 is probably a must have for you 
Click on the picture and get it now!
Astronomy calendars are a wonderful way to get in touch with this field of science and can awaken the interest in space in kids and adults alike…
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 0.10.2
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for twelve different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…
The software is open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux – if you have experience with this program, please drop a comment down here on this site…
Since 1990 the space telescope “Hubble” sends spectacular pictures of space to the control station on earth. Millions have seen the beautiful images and and have won an idea of how fantastic our universe is. But no later than 2013 it will be disposed. A new technological era will dawn with the “James Webb Space Telescope”. One of it’s main missions: To deliver the answer to one of the greatest questions since mankind looks at stars: How did everything begin?
For that reason, Webb will be optimized for infrared, a part of the spectrum that is mostly absorbed by the athmosphere – a problem that a telescope in space does not have to deal with. Infrared rays have the ability to “see through” the stellar dust that blocks sight to the regions where stars are born. Sophisticated technology will allow insights never gained before – and the answer to many questions.
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