Written by Marko on March 26, 2008
Finnish researchers have discovered the largest known black hole so far. This massive black hole is lurking in the middle of quasar OJ 287, about 3.5 billion light years away from the Earth. The discovery of Finnish scientists was published last in Astrophysical Journal by Mr. Mauri Valtonen
This recently discovered black hole has a really staggering size. It is estimated that the black hole ha...
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Written by Marko on March 25, 2008
European Space Agency's (ESA) Jules Verne, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), is reaching its "parking orbit" near the International Space Station (ISS). Jules Verne is a new type of ATV's and will dock to ISS on April 3rd, if everything goes fine. So far everything has worked well.
"ATV works fine and our team is really waiting for docking", says Alberto Novelli, the head of the flight. "Do...
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Written by Marko on March 23, 2008
Instead of listing the five most important natural scientists, this list generally defines five important natural scientists. It is very difficult to say which scientist is more important than another, so that's why this list doesn't put scientists in order. This list defines five natural scientists that have made remarkable findings related to astronomy and cosmology.
Recently died Arthur C. C...
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Written by Marko on March 21, 2008
SpaceFlightNow.Com writes that astronauts in the orbit have enjoyed some off-duty time, which was really needed. "We're having a great time, taking a break, just relaxing a little bit", says Peggy Whitson when interviewed by CBS News. "I think we really needed it. For the station guys and for the shuttle guys, we had to do a pretty big sleep shift to get to this time, to (get in synch) with the la...
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Written by Marko on March 20, 2008
We have set the new prize for our April free give-away contest! February's giveaway, two IMAX DVD's of the international space station, goes to to Kedar M. from Switzerland. In the end of April 2008 one of our weekly newsletter subscribers will receive this fantastic book written by well-known Stephen Hawking and his colleague Leonard Mlodinow. See below what is said about this book in Amazon.Com....
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Written by Marko on March 19, 2008
My friend told me that his son came from school and said "Dad, guys at school discussed about multiverse. Do you know what it is"? My friend was not sure and he wanted to ask me because he knows that I write about this kind of things here in HomeboyAstronomy.Com. I said, "see what the name says, a multiple universe = multiverse". I needed to explain a bit more, and later on I came up with idea of ...
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Written by Marko on March 18, 2008
During the last one and a half years Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has mapped the surface of Mars with its powerful HiRISE-camera. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and has opened us a whole new era in space research. We can see now pictures of Mars that are even sharper than pictures taken by spy satellites.
"HiRISE can provide interesting new things in places researchers have considered boring", says...
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Written by Marko on March 17, 2008
According to ScienceDaily.Com a massive gas cloud is speeding towards a collision with our galaxy. During that collision we can expect magnificent stellar fireworks, but are we going to see it? The collision of the gas cloud and Milky Way will happen in 40 million years, so it is possible that human race is not going to see it.
"The leading edge of this gas cloud is already interacting with the...
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Written by Marko on March 15, 2008
Today's post is not a regular HomeboyAstronomy.Com article. Instead I proudly present a great tip from Aaron Scott. I received this email from Aaron and instead of keeping it as a secret between me and Aaron, I would like to share Aaron's tip for finding the North Star, also called Polaris. Check out my article for finding the Polaris. It is just one way to find it. Here is another way to find the...
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Written by Marko on March 14, 2008
Finally I managed to convert and edit the movie clip of HomeboyAstronomy.Com February free give-away contest! I am sorry the contest winner is announced late. I have been sick for almost two weeks and during that time I was not able to draw the winner and record this video. I hope in the future I will be able to do these in time. This is sometimes challenging because I do this all on my leisure ti...
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