Solar System
The Sky This Week, 2009 January 23 – 30
An Eastern Hemisphere eclipse, then the Moon catches Venus…
Orion Rising over Savage Farm, near Bluemont, VA Imaged with a Canon PowerShot A70 digital camera, 10s @ f/3.5, ISO 200, by Geoff Chester
This post is courtesy of The United States Naval Observatory
The Moon wanders back into the evening sky by the week’s end. New Moon [...]
Looking For More Planet Information?
Some of you are working on planet foldables and need more information. Others may just be interested. Here’s a great site about the planets.
You can also use the Earth Science Textbook Online. The user id is: “lms123″ without the quotes and the password is: “lakeview”. The information you need is in Chapter 23.
Sounds In Space?
There is an old riddle it goes something like …. If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?
Well here’s another. If there is no air in space does space make any sounds?
Make sure your speakers are turned. Click the image and play [...]
Mysterious Hot Spot at Saturn’s Pole
Astronomy Journal EntryMysterious Hot Spot at Saturn’s Pole (January 21, 2008)
Thanks to new pictures from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, astronomers spotted a mysterious hot spot at Saturn’s chilly north pole. The spot is a spinning vortex of gases much hotter than its surroundings.A similar spot was found earlier on Saturn’s south pole, currently bathed in sunlight. [...]
Tonight’s Full Moon 12 Percent Bigger
Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
SPACE.com
Fri Oct 6, 9:15 AM ET
Tonight’s full Moon will be almost 12 percent bigger than some of the full Moons this year, according to NASA, setting up a fine viewing opportunity when it rises in the evening.
The reason: The Moon is near perigee, the point on its slightly out-of-round orbit that [...]
Bye Bye Pluto
Pity Poor Pluto: It’s Been Demoted (August 28, 2006)
View of Pluto (lower left) and its moon Charon from the Hubble Space Telescope. The planet was 2.6 billion miles (4.6 billion kilometers) away when the picture was take, nearly 30 times Earth’s distance from the Sun. NASA/European Space Agency.
Suddenly, every solar system poster hanging in every [...]
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