For Americans, some of you you probably know there is a Planetary Society. I got it from earth sky.org. Has its own website and with its own cubesats and solar sail satellite.
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For Americans, some of you you probably know there is a Planetary Society. I got it from earth sky.org. Has its own website and with its own cubesats and solar sail satellite.
The growing number of space telescopes is beginning to give new information on distant galaxies. See the WISE and the Spitzer,and the most luminous galaxy.
Kelvin Helmhotz clouds – also called billow clouds – form when two different layers of air in our atmosphere are moving at different speeds. This come from earth sky.org, showing several variations. Saturn and Jupiter have them as well.
Two tiny 'CubeSats' will watch 2016 Mars landing.
A CubeSat is a miniaturised satellite.
There is an interesting astronomy blog by Colin Johnson of Armagh Planetarium I have started to follow: http://www.armaghplanet.com. There is post on NASA space drive experiments. Draw your own conclusions...
The CubeSat idea is interesting at a cost of about $130,000. I wonder what people will think of using them to do.
I don't understand the "quantum vacuum virtual plasma" in the last link, but the name sounds good.
I understand that Dawn will enter its second mapping orbit on June 9th. Maybe in June the mystery of those bright spots will be resolved.
A first look at Pluto's weird moons.
That link seems to be about a new technique for a Mars landing. Just glancing around, it looks like Nix and Hydra have very ellipsoid shapes which may be caused by orbiting a binary system.
Yes, it is possible. Adding that the Pluto system is so far from the sun that gravity is weakened. We should learn more as New Horizons get closer to Pluto.
I realize I haven't been looking at the night sky. I should be able to see Sagittarius and Jupiter and Venus should be close together around Cancer.
We don't get much of a night sky at at our latitude in the middle of summer. I was awake last night and it never got properly dark...
I noticed that there wasn't much darkness here as well. Yesterday it rained and last night was cloudy, so I didn't see much. I was able to see either Venus or Jupiter the evening before. Then I got distracted and forgot to look when it was darker.
what latitude are you at? We are at 61 north, only 5 degrees south of the polar circle.
Chicago is around 40 north. I should be able to see something if it isn't cloudy.
The view of Jupiter and Venus in the evening sky is relaxing. They are so bright I can even see them.
There is also a place to vote on what you think those bright spots on Ceres are: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/dawn/world_ceres/# I picked "Other" along with 40% of the others who answered the pole, "Ice" coming in second place with 30% of the vote.