astronomy

  • Venus and Jupiter team up with the moon to provide late February/March cool show

    This year, Jupiter and Venus, two of the three brightest objects in the night-sky will team up with the brightest, the moon, to provide an incredible show after sunset. If you look west at a clear sky just after dusk you should see them gradually get closer to one...
  • Pluto shows off newly discovered moon to Hubble

    Astonomers, using the Hubble Space Telescope, have identified a new moon orbiting Pluto, which they’d previously demoted from a planet, to a “dwarf” planet for reasons known only to themselves. The new moon, whose discovery was announced on Monday, has tentatively been named P4.  It’s size is estimated between...
  • The Moon is shrinking!

    The Moon; Humans will always be fascinated by it. Cavemen likely looked up at it and wondered if they could unhook it from the sky. We’ve written books about it, poems were recited, Duran Duran wrote a song about it being new, on a Monday. We’ve had paintings, documentaries, men...
  • Twenty-four hour photo is a creative way to kill a full day

    The amazing photograph that you see above is the perfect combination of art and science. Greek photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos spent a full day capturing photographs in specific directions at a spot in Athens, Greece – he then spent 12-hours rendering them to combine the 360-degree small world effect with...
  • A second Sun for Earth in lieu of the Mayan end in 2012?

    Apparently it’s not only scientifically plausible, but also very possible and likely. At least the part about the second “sun”. According to Dr.Brad Carter Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, Betelgeuse, the second most massive star in our galaxy, is losing mass and is nice...
  • NASA Footage Shows Sun Swallowing a Comet

    NASA’s SOHO spacecraft recorded an interesting sight on April 10, 2010. A comet, unnamed as it was previously unknown, approached the sun but came a little too close – causing it to be swallowed up, never to be seen again. 1. The Approach You can see the comet approaching...