☾ The ☆ Astronomy ☄ Thread ☽

[bukojob]

I just thought I'd share this here (sa random news sana e)

http://www.space.com/11613-planets-converge-night-sky.html

[carpediem]

The Pale Red Dot: Most Distant Galaxy Ever Discovered

"Astronomers have used Hubble to spot what they think is the furthest and one of the very earliest galaxies ever seen in the Universe. Candidate galaxy UDFj-39546284 appears as a faint red blob in this ultra deep field exposure taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This is the deepest infrared image taken of the Universe. Based on the object's colour, astronomers believe that its light has taken 13.2 billion years to reach us. The current known age of the Universe is 13.7 billion years."

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/05/-the-pale-red-dot-most-distant-galaxy-ever-discovered.html

[carpediem]

The History of Pretty Much Everything
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/04/the_history_of_pretty_much_eve.php

[bukojob]

sun ate comet.. and burped!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5715631317/in/photostream

[Luc]

sun ate comet.. and burped!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/5715631317/in/photostream

haha cool.

May bagong planet daw sa Gliese_581 constellation confirmed to have liquid in water form! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_581_d (ewan ko kung updated ba ang wiki nito, nabasa ko lang din sa newspaper eh)

And I found both of their projects cool: A Message From Earth and Hello From Earth. Para lang kahawig ng colonization era noon, only in space. Sent to the solar system (Gliese_581).

[darkstar13]

http://gizmodo.com/5802902/new-home-for-humans

Cosmos magazine reports that French researchers think they've found the first planet other than Earth capable of sustaining life, concluding that it probably has a dense carbon dioxide atmosphere and that "the climate of Gliese 581d is not only stable against collapse but warm enough to have oceans, clouds and rainfall." Yes! I just set some coal on fire to watch that shit burn.

It orbits the star Gliese 581 in the so-called Goldilocks zone (not too hot; not too cold), which means that water is likely to exist there in liquid form. Gliese 581d is about twice the size of Earth, if seven times its mass. It's a neighbor of Gliese 581g, or Zarmina's World, but unlike that planet, it is certain that this one exists. Sweet!

[darkstar13]

Blackhole engulfing Centaurus A (with video!):

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-radio-telescopes-capture-best-ever-snapshot.html

[carpediem]

NASA to Abandon Mars Spirit Rover

"NASA said on Tuesday that it was abandoning efforts to get back in touch with Spirit, one of the two rovers on Mars. Spirit, which has been stuck in a sand trap for two years, fell silent last year as winter arrived and its solar panels could no longer generate enough electricity. Engineers had hoped that the rover would revive when spring returned, but they never heard from it again."

[carpediem]

HUGE Explosion on the Sun

as big as the sun itself. Massive magnetic interference in the next few days?

[marvinofthefaintsmile]

^^Will aliens come along with it? 

[marvinofthefaintsmile]

Comet Elenin


Is it just me who's thinking that this comet Elenin looks more like a 4-km huge spacecraft or something?

It was said that this comet will enter the solar system and will head a bit close to earth.

[Luc]

^ito ata ang tatama next year. December 21, 2012

[marvinofthefaintsmile]

Yup! And I wonder what are those craftlike lights behind the Elenin comet.. Probably, Spaceshift to save us from disaster? <-- Love it!

[mang juan]

Total lunar
eclipse expected tom, 1:24
am. Actual eclipse expected
to last more than 100mins.

[bukojob]

^ ah! salamat sa reminder