Written by Marko on March 12, 2008
Megan wrote a nice comment that encouraged me to write another collection of interesting articles in the archives of HomeboyAstronomy.Com. Megan came to this blog from Digg.Com where my article The Top Ten Hubble Images of All Time has received almost 1400 diggs so far. It has been absolutely great to see how people have liked that one article I wrote some time ago. So, lets now digg the archives ...
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Written by Marko on March 11, 2008
Today one of my older articles received more than 1.200 diggs in Digg.Com. The article I wrote was The Top Ten Hubble Images of All Time - The very Best of Hubble Images. It stayed in the front page of Digg.Com for the whole day and right now it seems to be in the Science subpage of Digg.Com. Lots of people have read the article and we have received some very good comments. I am very glad people l...
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Written by Marko on March 10, 2008
Finally I feel better! I have been sick for the last 8 days and today it is the first time I feel better. I have had some kind of a stomach virus and I have enjoyed some pretty good pain in my stomach every damn day. Today I woke up and thought "oh dear, not pain in my stomach? Gotta go blogging..". So it's time to make some good coffee, open my laptop and start writing. It feel helluva good to be...
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Written by Marko on March 7, 2008
I have been ill during the last few days and therefore there has been a break with blogging. I feel much better now and it's just great to be back for blogging. Stomach diseases are so annoying..
Have you ever wondered that what kinds of vehicles were used to bring the first humans to the orbit of the Earth? The very first space craft that brought a human being to the orbit was called Vostok 1....
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Written by Marko on March 3, 2008
In February we asked "Do You Believe in Extraterrestrial Intelligence?". It is time to look at the results of this poll, but first please check out the results of our January's poll results. In January we asked "What Equipment You Use When Observing The Sky?". Now the results of February's poll.
It is clear that majority of the readers of HomeboyAstronomy.Com believe that there is life outside ...
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Written by Marko on March 1, 2008
Olber's paradox asks "why the sky is dark at nights?". Olber's paradix is described by German astronomer Heinrich Olbers (1758-1840). Heinrich Olbers released a research paper on this problem in 1826, but we know that also Kepler been thinking about this problem already in 1610.
Olbers thought that if the universe was infinitely large and old, the universe would be filled by stars and the light...
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Written by Marko on February 28, 2008
Just a moment ago I received my own copy of the first HomeboyAstronomy.Com newsletter! It took us some time to figure our how the newsletter service works, but now we are done. This first newsletter launched our new service, a weekly newsletter. It is our pleasure to provide you weekly newsletter from HomboyAstronomy.Com including featured articles, book and DVD reviews as well as technical gear r...
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Written by Marko on February 27, 2008
What makes astronomy a wonderful hobby, is that it provides an endless amount of new and interesting things to wonder. One of the classic riddles in astronomy is the Twin Paradox. Why space traveler's aging slows down in this paradox related to theory of relativity? Read more to know how Homeboy would utilize the twin paradox.
Let us imagine that twins, Ann and Betty, are both astronauts. Ann t...
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Written by Marko on February 25, 2008
Astronomy and telecommunications have one common thing, the great amount of abbreviations and strange concepts. Few years ago I worked for Ericsson, and the very first things I came across with were those strange abbreviations, such as SS7, M-MGw, EDGE and ATM. When I began interested in astronomy I noticed that the amount of things to study and understand in astronomy is enough for the rest of my...
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Written by Marko on February 24, 2008
I work in a company that produces environment measurement and weather forecasting devices. I recently read a book of space weather, written by Heikki Nevanlinna. There was an interesting story of the most awesome space weather storm of all time. This post is an outline of that interesting phenomenon.
Back in September 2nd in 1859 the Earth was shaken by the strongest space weather storm for the...
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