Written by Marko on May 14, 2008
In April 2008 we asked our readers the question "Do Yuo Believe in.." - God - Evolutionary Theory - Both - Neither It is time to see the results. Oh yes, I should have done it already two weeks ago, but life is life. It has been so busy lately that my blogging has suffered very much. I hope I will get my work done and by that release more time for blogging. Just stay tuned, I wi...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 12, 2008
As you most probably know, yesterday was the international mother's day. As I am an amateur photographer, I shot lots of pictures of my wife and our kids during the day. It was a very nice and warm day here in Finland, so we spent a lot of time outside. Although the light was almost too bright, it is great to shoot pictures on a sunny day. Later in the evening I was looking for information ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 9, 2008
NASA's Terra satellite has captured images of the disaster in Burma. Cyclone Nargis terrorized the cities and villages of Burma just few days ago. The images taken by the satellite show how the cyclone caused serious floods in southern Burma. The first picture was taken one day before the disaster. In the picture one can see flora with green color, land with brown color and clouds with white...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 6, 2008
Alpha Centauri is the nearest star from our Sun and it is located in constellation Centaurus. In fact Alpha Centauri is not one big star, but a formation of three stars located close to each other. The brightest one of those three stars is Rigil Centaurus, many times called just Rigil Cent. Alpha Centauri can only be seen in southern hemisphere and it is the third brightest star in the sky. ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on May 3, 2008
So, we are already in May and having a very nice and warm spring. What's up with the nightsky this month? There will be only few more dark nights before the summer in northern hemisphere, especially in the northern side. Here in Helsinki the Sun will go below -12 degrees 9th of May. After that there will be no more dark nights before autumn. Above 70 degrees northern latitude the Sun will not set ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on April 30, 2008
Did you know that Hubble space telescope has been operating already 18 years? To celebrate this anniversary NASA has published 59 new pictures of colliding galaxies. This is the biggest single set of Hubble pictures ever published. Collisions of galaxies is just normal evolution, but it all happens in such a long time period and within such a big scale that seeing it happen in a picture is ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on April 28, 2008
Hey there, this is a reminder. Our April free giveaway campaign is soon going to be over. In April we are giving away a book called “A Briefer History of Time" by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. Would you like to win that book for yourself? Would you like to win something else next month? HomeboyAstronomy.Com gives away valuable stuff every month. Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter a...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on April 26, 2008
Virgin Galactic, the first commercial space flight company, is soon ready to take the first people to space. Virgin Galactic will use their special-purpose aircrafts to provide this unforgettable trip outside our atmosphere. The company has spent years and millions of dollars to develop this spacecraft. Soon ordinary people can experience the feeling of flying to space. So what is Virgin Galact...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on April 24, 2008
It was a close call. The returning cosmonaut and two astronauts almost died during their landing because Sojuz capsule almost burned in the atmosphere. The crew was very lucky because the situation was actually very dangerous. The results could have been much worse. Last weekend the Sojuz capsule was bringing back cosmonauts Juri Malatshenko, American Peggy Whitson and South-Korean Yi So Yeon. ...
Continue ReadingWritten by Marko on April 22, 2008
Last week we wrote that a German school boy had found an error in NASA's Apophis calculations and come up with much higher impact probability. German Nico Marquardt calculated Apophis impact probability to 1/450 while NASA estimated it to be 1/45.000. Current understanding is that Nico Marquardt's calculation is not valid and this whole story has no scientific evidence. News agency AFP had foun...
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