Category : Astronomy News

Life on Mars – Photo of Person?

Posted on: January 23, 2008 /
Categories: Astronomy News

These amazing images were among many sent back to Earth by Spirit, Nasa’s Mars explorer vehicle which landed there four years ago. The images have been featured in the UK newspapers this week and are very interesting, but surely they are just rocks which have formed on the red planet into a human type form

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UK to Track Asteroid Threat

Posted on: August 31, 2007 /
Categories: Astronomy News

The 300m-wide (984ft) rock, known as Apophis, will fly past Earth in April 2029 at a distance that is closer than many communications satellites. The British design calls for a small, remote-sensing spacecraft, dubbed Apex, which could rendezvous with Apophis in January 2014. It would spend three years tracking the rock, sending data back to

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Google Sky a replacement for Starry Night?

Posted on: August 22, 2007 /
Categories: Astronomy News

Google have apparently launched Google Sky, I saw it on BBC Breakfast this morning when they spoke to Sir Patrick Moore about it. The funny thing is I did not know the name of the product this morning so I searched in Google for many possible names including Google Galaxy, Google Solar System and others.

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Astrophysicists find coldest solitary brown dwarf

Posted on: June 7, 2007 /
Categories: Astronomy News

Astrophysicists have found a star-like object with a surface temperature just one tenth that of the Sun. The cold object is known as a brown dwarf: a “failed” star that never achieved the mass required to begin nuclear fusion reactions in its core. This one – called J0034-00 – is thought to have a surface

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