Translate

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Live Stream Output Russian cosmonauts into space

On Friday, August 16 and Thursday August 22, NASA TV will broadcast live spacewalk outside the International Space Station, two Russian cosmonauts. Two Russian cosmonaut flight engineers - Fedor and Alexander Jurchihin Misurkin, leave the airlock, "Pierce" at about 10:40 in the morning and come out into open space, 

The three brightest asteroids

In the next few weeks will have to the perfect opportunity to chance the three brightest asteroids in the sky in the middle of stargazing. These cosmic objects are small in size, but quite bright. Not many amateur astronomers could see them move across the sky. But in the next few weeks, all of us will have the great opportunity to see a flight of three asteroids - Flora, Juno and Iris in the night sky.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The consequence of the change of magnetic fields on the sun for the solar system

As recently it became known, our Sun will soon change the magnetic poles. But what specific consequences for us is this event?  The process of changing the magnetic poles which are known to occur on the Sun every 11 years will occur in the next 3-4 months.

Although this is not a catastrophic event, the change of the magnetic poles we  feel for yourself. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Commission's proposal of ESA to reduce dependency on the U.S. space technology

The Commission of the European Space Agency has put forward a proposal to develop their own space technologies to reduce Europe's dependence on space technology and military influence of the United States. 

Agency commission is once again trying to consolidate the overall efforts to develop its own space technology related to global positioning system, 

A new way to transfer data to observatories - Laser bond

Recently open a new optical laser ground station in Spain on the island of Tenerife. Enhanced laser system requires a significantly higher speed and quality of the data in the interaction with spacecraft located outside our solar system. This system is ready for operation after a series of crucial tests on the ground.

Laser system, which transmits data in the infrared, can open the door to the future in the field of reception of large amounts of information received from the spacecraft from Earth orbit, and the orbit of Mars and other more distant planets.

Parade of the three planets

During these three days, in the clear sky you can see the "parade of three planets" that are low in the north-eastern part of the sky.

Three bright planets are placed diagonally across the sky at this weekend's pre-dawn sky which is right at the top of Jupiter, in the middle of Mars and Mercury at the bottom left. In addition, the company they will be waning moon.

Monday, August 5, 2013

The formation of planetary systems

Researchers found that the planetary systems are moving around other stars, more organized than our system.  In fact, the way they are located, means that astronomers can use the old law to predict where new discoveries will be made.

More than 200 years ago, it was found that the distance between the planets of our solar system can be loosely described mathematical relation, now known as the "Titius - Bode." Since the law is not fully understood, many modern astronomers believe that the law - no more than a meaningless coincidence.