The Leonids meteor showers, produced by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, are one of the best for observation. You will see about 40 meteors…
Month: November 2013
India’s Mission To Mars on it’s way
After a successful launch on November 5th 2013 the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO executed the last of the five…
Space Pioneers Series – Johannes Kepler
They are the dreamers, the deep-thinkers, the “what if-ers”, the folks who have peppered our history with those tiny nuggets…
Many Sunspots, Solar activity could increase
There are 10 sunspots in the view of Earth right now. This is the most we have seen in some…
Iceberg B-31, as big as city, breaks free
(Source NASA) – Between November 9–11, 2013, a large iceberg finally separated from the calving front of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier.Scientists first…
Mar’s MAVEN Mission to Launch Nov 18th
What happened to the Atmosphere on Mars? Where did the water go? These are the questions Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN…
GOCE Satellite uncontrolled re-entry Update
UPDATE 11/11/13 – Update from ESA – GOCE has re-entered. The atmospheric interface at ~80 km altitude occurred, following a…
Hubble Sees Asteroid Spout Six Comet-like Tails
(Source NASA) – It’s not often that astronomers stumble across a celestial interloper that they can only describe as “weird…
