Written by Marko on August 8, 2008
The new LHC collider of CERN in Switzerland will start up in 32 days. The first attempt will be seen live in television through Eurovision. This will be very interesting moment, because they have built LHC for years already, and now it will start-up. This will be the first beam. "The LHC is the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on July 30, 2008
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is going to be the first company bringing ordinary people to space. One trip to zero gravity will cost $130.000, and 300 people have already confirmed their journey. Are you going to be one of those pioneers? Spacecraft that will be used is called Space Ship II, which is an enhanced version of Space Ship I. Space Ship II will be carried by a bigger plane, Whi...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on July 27, 2008
The first time I heard about parallel universes was when my friend told me about the M-theory and Ed Witten. That was staggering information because my understanding of "this all" changed rapidly. Actually, I did not really believe in parallel universes because there was no way to prove it. I thought "well, it's a nice theory, but it can't be verified". Or can it be verified? I recently stumble...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on July 20, 2008
I am sorry that I have not been blogging for many weeks. I have been very busy with my work, so I was forced to reduce blogging time. I hope I can keep posting more frequently as soon as the stargazing season begins. One of my readers asked me a question in the comments of another blog post. The question was "how can I locate constellation Lyra as well as star Vega when located in Belgium"...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on June 25, 2008
As we wrote in April, ESA is looking for new European candidates to their astronaut training program. ESA asked all member countries to send applications for the upcoming training program. From Finland they will receive over 300 applications. This is the first time Finns have a change to become an astronaut and fly to the space. ESA received 8.400 applications in total, and out of those tho...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on June 22, 2008
This picture is from Aram Chaos crater in Mars. It was taken last month by HiRISE camera of MRO-probe. The crater was named Aram Chaos because of the broken formations of the surface. Scientists believe the crater was formed when the material under the surface dissappeared. Lowest parts of the crater contain dark sand which is coloured blue in the picture. On can also see the dunes formed b...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on June 12, 2008
Check out the press release of ESA (European Space Agency). They are looking for European students to join their new programme called “Fly Your Thesis! – An Astronaut Experience”. If you are a European student (like me), this is your change to experience a zero gravity flight. My old colleague from Ericsson was lucky and joined this kind of zero gravity flight some years ago. I saw his p...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on June 10, 2008
Greeeeetings from the beautiful Crete! I just came back from one week vacation with my family. We spent one week in Chania in Crete island. Oh boy, Crete is a wonderful place to take it relaxed. For sure I recommend Crete to anybody. And I didn't even mention the Greek food.. Delicious! So, what my vacation in Crete has to do with astronomy? Last Friday night I was having a dinner with my f...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 28, 2008
There has been a really unusual problem in the International Space Station (ISS). The one and only toilet of ISS has been broken. Imagine how difficult the situation can be when astronomers cannot go to toilet and Nasa is not able to send a service man up there.. Ok, it is not that tragic anymore. The toilet is ISS got broken last week and the crew was first forced to use the toilet facilit...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 18, 2008
Microsoft has released their WorldWide Telescope (WWT) software and it is freely downloadable in WorldWideTelescope.Com website. As Microsoft says, "The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless explora...
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