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An Astronomy Diary for May
Animation Credit: NASA MSFC
Some astronomy highlights for viewing during May
can be seen here...
What`s in the Shetland Sky in 2017?
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
New Black Hole Found in Sagittarius
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA - A slice of Sagittarius
An international team of astronomers led by
The University of Manchester have found
evidence of a new black hole in the Milky
Way, hidden in Sagittarius.
Cassini on Track for 'Grand Finale'
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Artist's concept of Cassini diving between Saturn and its innermost ring.
After passing close to Titan, a moon of Saturn,
the Cassini spacecraft has begun a series of
22 dives between the rings of Saturn itself.
Cassini will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere
later this year on 15 September. A wealth
of information on the Grand Finale and the
Cassini-Huygens mission is available from
NASA's news website here...
How to Make Bricks on Mars
Image credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego
Engineers at the University of California have
published a study on how astronauts could
create bricks purely from Martian soil. Their
method uses pressure to compact the soil:
no baking or extra ingredients necessary.
Mathematical Model for a Time Machine
Ben Tippett, a researcher at the University of
British Columbia, has created a formula to describe
a method of time travel. "People think of time travel
as something [from] fiction," says Tippett.
"And we tend to think it's not possible because we
don't actually do it. But, mathematically, it is
possible"
First Private Moon Landing in 2018 ?
Image credit: PTScientists
A group of European scientists are planning
to send a landing module and 2 rovers to the
Moon in 2018, launched aboard the SpaceX
Falcon 9 rocket. The mission plans to send
out two rovers to find NASA's moon buggy,
left behind on the final Apollo mission.
Three Comets in the April Sky !
Comet C/2017 E4 Lovejoy: Gerald Rhemann on 30/03/2017
With three comets visible in the night sky from
the UK, why not check out when and where
you can see them at www.cometwatch.co.uk?
Giant Space X Rocket is Re-usable
Image: Space X
Space X's Falcon Heavy Rocket, once operational,
will be the most powerful rocket in the world. It will
also be recoverable and reusable !
Cassini Prepares for Final Farewell
Image credit: NASA/JPL Artist concept of Cassini at Saturn
On Wednesday, April 26, the Cassini spacecraft will
begin a series of dives between Saturn and its rings
as part of the mission's grand finale. For more
details and guides, see NASA's mission page here..
Jupiter Photo Opportunity
Image: Hubble Telescope
This April, Jupiter is in opposition i.e.at its closest to
Earth at about about 670 million kilometres. The
hemisphere facing Earth is fully illuminated by the
Sun: an excellent photo opportunity for the
Hubble telescope
Mars Rover Tests in Atacama Desert
Image credit: NASA/CampoAlto/V. Robles
Second Mars Rover test series is completed in possibly
the driest place on Earth, to approximate conditions on
Mars. The team spent a month collecting scientific data
on life found in the desert today.
Moon Enceladus May Have Liquid
Water Near Surface
Enceladus with fractures at the south polar region.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
The bright, ice-covered Saturn moon should be too
small and too far from the Sun to be active. But
Enceladus is one of the most geothermally active
places in the Solar System.
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