Space

A Blue Moon

Angelike wrote on Jun 27, 08:52 PM | Comments (0) |

Sky Disk at Twilight, Germany, 2004

luvcum4ter wrote on Nov 24, 11:40 PM | Comments (0) |

Tracing a powerful explosion SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!!!

When i saw this had to share it!!!

The ESA's XMM-Newton observatory has provided new insight into puzzling celestial objects known as magnetars.
Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely powerful magnetic fields. They are extremely dense objects (the size of mountains but weighing as much as the sun), with magnetic fields hundreds of trillions of times more powerful than the Earth’s. The decay of these powerful magnetic fields powers the emission of very energetic radiation, usually in the form of X-rays or gamma rays. NASA/Swift/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

luvcum4ter wrote on Oct 02, 07:08 PM | Comments (0) |

SOHO spies a periodic comet that took four years to orbit the sun!

The location of the comet P/2007 R5 (SOHO) is indicated in these two panels. The panels show pictures of observations taken with SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO). The comet has a small orbit, taking four years to once circle the Sun. ESA/NASA/SOHO

luvcum4ter wrote on Oct 02, 07:02 PM | Comments (0) |

Pleiades (The Seven Sisters)

Photo: David Trapani

kahrahmel wrote on Sep 29, 11:23 AM | Comments (0) |

Catch brilliant Venus before dawn

The "morning star" shines at its brightest Sunday, September 23. Francis Reddy

kahrahmel wrote on Sep 21, 05:46 AM | Comments (0) |

So scientists believe they have found the parent object that produced the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago?

kahrahmel wrote on Sep 07, 05:25 PM | Comments (2) |

Moon and Venus

kahrahmel wrote on Sep 02, 08:11 PM | Comments (4) |

Perseids 2007

So? Did anyone get to see the Perseids last weekend? Too much cloud cover here in NY, but there's always the Leonids! :)

So what star parties are happening where you live?

Targaryen1 wrote on Aug 18, 09:41 PM | Comments (0) |