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Astronomy Diary for April
Animation Credit: NASA MSFC
Some astronomy highlights for viewing during
April can be seen here...
What`s in the Shetland Sky in 2018 ?
Weather Today Mossbank Shetland
Live Video Stream and Weather Data
Astro Imaging without a Telescope
Some Suggestions for Binoculars
Free Online Courses
Courses in Astronomy, Physics, Astrobiology and more
starting soon
The Voice of Jupiter 2014
Our first attempt to record Jupiter`s radio emissions
on 20.1Mhz ( June 2014 ) Listen to the files here .
Meteor Shower Camelopardalids 2014
Did you know you can also listen to meteor showers ?
Plots and Audio samples from the Camelopardalids !
Preliminary Report
Hurlers Stone Circles Project - Cornwall
Original Hurlers Story Here !
News from Around the Web
Is Life Possible Above Venus?
Image: NASA's Mariner 10 mission (1974)
An international team of researchers has
presented a case for the atmosphere of
Venus as a possible niche for extraterrestrial
microbial life. Although surface conditions are
inhospitable, space probes to the planet have
shown that temperature and pressure in the
lower and middle portions of the atmosphere
might be able to support microbial life.
ESA: Clean Space Challenges & Solutions
Image: ESA
View an animated introduction to ESA's Clean
Space initiative, dedicated to safeguarding
the Earth and space environments on ESA's
'Clean Space Blog'
CHEOPS Rocket Logo Chosen
Winning design. Credit: ESA/D. Vrenko
ESA has announced the winner of a competition to
design a logo for its CHEOPS mission, which will
measure the size of planets as they cross before
of their parent stars. CHEOPS (CHaracterising
ExOplanets Satellite) will be launched aboard a
Soyuz rocket and the design will be seen on the
ocket's shell that protects the satellite during
launch and as it passes into space.
NASA’s InSight Mission to Use
Seismology to See Deep Into Mars
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's InSight mission, which is set to launch
as early as May, will use seismology to discover
the structure and content of the martian core,
mantle, and crust. NASA's lander will use
specialised instruments to observe seismic
waves during “marsquakes.”
Physicist Stephen Hawking has died aged 76
Image from telegraph.co.uk
Stephen Hawking, cosmologist and author of
'A Brief History of Time' has died at his home in
Cambridge. Tributes have been pouring in. Neil
deGrasse Tyson tweeted "His passing has left an
intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it's not empty.
Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating
the fabric of spacetime that defies measure."
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down
at your feet" Stephen Hawking
News from Goonhilly, Cornwall
Credit: ESA
A new initiative to redevelop part of Goonhilly
Earth Station hopes to provide Europe’s first
deep-space tracking services on a commercial
basis
Three Swarm Satellites Become Four
Credit: ESA
ESA and Canada plan to turn the three Swarm
satellites into a four-satellite mission and hope to
shed more light on space weather and the
aurora borealis.
Mars Express Photos of Mars Moons
Saturn's Rings
credit: ESA (Deimos and Satrurn)
Mars Express has been circling the Red
Planet for more than 14 years.
See its recentimages of Phobos, Deimos
and Saturn here.
Testing the Deep Space Atomic Clock
Credits: NASA/JPL
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to
navigation, but spacecraft lack precise time -
pieces on board. DSAC is a small, low-mass
atomic clock prototype based on mercury-ion
trap technology. DSAC is about the size of a
large toaster, but could be made smaller for
future space missions. After 20 years development,
the DSAC test flight next year will take the technology
from the laboratory to the space environment.
Check Out NASA's AstrOlympics
Image: NASA
At the start of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang,
you can also visit NASA's AstOlympics website to
learn about the physics of space through examples
from olympic disciplines. The project by NASA's
Chandra X-ray Observatory consists of posters,
videos and an informative website.
All materials are free to download from
http://chandra.si.edu/olympics/
Testing a Submarine for an Alien Ocean
Image shows near infrared image of Titan from Cassini
Credit: NASA/JPL/Univ. Arizona/Univ. Idaho
Researchers have recreated a Titan ocean in
the lab, to test how a submarine might behave
at -300 degrees F (approx 185 degrees C).
NASA plans to launch a real submarine into
Titan seas in the next 20 years
Methane Sniffing Around Mars
The European-Russian Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)
is nearing the end of an 11 month braking
manoever in the Martian atmosphere and will
soon begin its mission: to sniff for possible
signs of life
Testing Skinsuits to Help Combat Effects
of Weightlessness in Space
Image credit: ESA
Researchers at King’s College London and ESA
have worked together to develop a Skinsuit, a
spandex-based garment which squeezes the
body like gravity. It is based on an MIT garment
design changes to improve wearability.
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