A lunar eclipse is visible from North America early Tuesday morning. Melissa Bell set up the event as well: The moon passes through Earth’s shadow early Tuesday morning on the east coast, turning a dark red. Normally, the moon is illuminated by the sun, but Earth will be cut by this light source for a [...]
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Lunar Eclipse Live Camera – NASA Lunar Eclipse 2010, Solar Moon Eclipse Today
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Watch Lunar Eclipse Online – Lunar Eclipse December 20th on Winter Solstice
December 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Two celestial events – a total lunar eclipse and winter solstice annual – coincided unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 21, 2010. It was a rare event and the last time it happened one day calendar was 2,000 years ago. Next time, lunar eclipse and winter solstice will meet December 21, 2094. Most of us can not [...]
Gawker Hack: Thousands of Username and Passwords Exposed Online
December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Gawker and its ring of blogs, as well as Twitter, were hacked this weekend by a group calling itself” Gnosis.” Gawker said thousands of its commenter usernames and passwords for its blogs were broken into and Gnosis said its hacking of the network of blogs led it to breach of e-mail address belonging to banks, [...]
SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Commercial Craft Launches from Florida
December 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
According to CNN International, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida Wednesday morning, marking what could be a significant step toward commercial space travel. A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is [...]
Astronomers find nearby baby black hole
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Washington, Nov 16 ,Scientists have identified a young black hole formed from an exploding star witnessed 30 years ago. The explosion of the star was first observed by an amateur astronomer in 1979, but it took decades of observation to confirm it had become a black hole. The death of the star in supernova 1979C [...]
NASA’s EPOXI Spacecraft Shoots Images of “Comet Hartley 2″
November 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
After a nearly 2.9-billion-mile (4.6-billion-kilometer) voyage, NASA’s EPOXI mission spacecraft has survived its risky rendezvous with comet 103P/Hartley 2 and has beamed back the first close-up images of the comet. This montage of five pictures, for example, shows Hartley 2′s nucleus as the craft was flying toward and under the icy body on Thursday. The [...]
Discovery Shuttle Launch Halts Due to Fuel Leak
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A potentially dangerous hydrogen fuel leak on the space shuttle Discovery thwarted NASA efforts to launch the spacecraft today, delaying the shuttle’s final liftoff to no earlier than Monday, Nov. 8. Discovery was slated to launch at 3:04 p.m. EDT (1904 GMT) today (Nov. 5) but a leak of flammable liquid hydrogen discovered during fueling [...]
NASA Delayed “Discovery Space Shuttle” Launch to Friday Due to Bad Weather
November 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
NASA delayed Thursday’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Discovery due to rain showers and low clouds expected at launch time. NASA says Discovery is now scheduled to take off (1903 UTC) Friday afternoon. Mission managers will meet early Friday to re-evaluate the weather conditions at the site of the launch, Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. NASA’s [...]
Atlantis Space Shuttle : NASA Yet to Confirm its Launch in June 2011
October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Now NASA has only two space shuttle missions planned before it retires its aging orbiter fleet, but US President Barack Obama and Congress recently approved an additional spaceflight by Atlantis. Whether that will actually happen has not been decided yet. Less than two weeks before the space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on its [...]
Gliese 581 G 2010 : First Habitable Exoplanet Discovered in a Habitable or Goldilocks Zone
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A team of U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar, an area called Habitable Zone. The planet located close to the star Gliese 58, about 20 light years from Earth, might similar to our Blue Planet. The planet has been found around the red dwarf star Gliese 581. The planet appears to be [...]
Bloom Box Fuel Cell System is an Alternative Green Energy Source
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Bloom Box fuel cell system is a much better and more reliable, alternative to solar power as a green energy source.a Bloom Box for the residential market could be out in 5 to 10 years for under $3,000. That’s a big improvement from the $800,000 box of today, but only time will tell if [...]
Two Moons on August 27 is A Big Lie, Its Mars and Moon
August 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A report spread through the internet that two moons will appear at the night sky all over the states tonight(August 27) is a big hoax. The e-mail mentioned that tonight(August 27) at exactly 8:00 PM Eastern Time, the moon will rise from the east with the red planet on its side. The e-mail stressed that [...]
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