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Astronomy Diary for August
Animation Credit: NASA MSFC
Some astronomy highlights for viewing during
August 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
Four Earth-sized Planets Found
Orbiting Sun-like Star
Scientists have discovered two new 'super-Earth'
planets which may be potentially habitable.
They are among four newly discovered planets
orbiting Tau Ceti, the nearest Sun-like star to
Earth, some 12 light years away.
Gravity Waves Detected in Sun's Interior
Image: SOHO
Scientists using data from the SOHO solar observatory
have found gravity waves in the Sun's interior that imply
the Sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface
Did You Know?
Download Free E-books from NASA
Image: NASA
Did you know you can download NASA ebooks
from their website. Books are in the categories
History, Aeronautics and Science. Apps, ringtones
and podcasts are also available.
The Forgotten Life of Einstein's
First Wife
Image: Mileva Marić in 1896
Her husband, Albert Einstein is celebrated as
perhaps the best physicist of the century but
who remembers the brilliant scientist Mileva
Marić. How much did his first wife contribute
to Albert Einstein's groundbreaking science?
Robot BepiColumbo Meets its Masters
Image credit: ESA
Flight controllers for robotic explorer BepiColumbo
met ‘their’ spacecraft for the first time on 5th July.
BepiColombo is ESA's first mission to Mercury
and consists of two spacecraft: the ESA''s
Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the
JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).
MPO will study the surface / internal composition
of the planet, while MMO will study Mercury's
magnetosphere.
'Smallest - Ever' Star Discovered
Image source: Alexander von Boetticher et al.
Astronomers at the University of Cambridge on
the search for exo-planets have discovered a
'tiny' star. The star, known as EBLM J0555-57Ab,
is slightly bigger than Saturn and has a
gravitational pull 300 times stronger than Earth.
If it had been slightly less massive (about 83
Jupiter masses), there wouldn’t be enough
central pressure for hydrogen fusion to occur
Moon Dust Auction in New York
Image credit: NASA
Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the
first moon landing is to be sold at auction.
The lot, consisting of lunar dust and tiny rocks,
is worth about $2 to $4 million. Sotheby's is
auctioning items linked to space travel on
20th July, the 48th anniversary of the first
moon landing
Moon Express Unveils MX-1E Lunar Lander
Image credit: Moon Express (MX-1E spacecraft on the moon)
Moon Express confirms its first mission to the
Moon is still on schedule to launch by the end of
2017 with the aim of claiming the Google Lunar X
Prize. Future missions could also include large
landers and sample return spacecraft
'Gecko Glue' to Help Tidy Up Space Debris
Engineers at Stanford University have designed
a robotic gripper to help grab objects in space
using glue inspired by geckos
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.
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 !
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