Beyond the Earth Asteroid

This asteroid, discovered recently, passed over our planet early on May 28, 2012, about 350,000 miles.

Yesterday, the asteroid 2012 KP24, flew past Earth at only a tenth of the distance of the Moon.

According to NASA, there was not any danger of collision with Earth, but it was an ideal time for many astronomers and amateurs, who missed the opportunity to photograph this large rock, estimated was about 26 meters.

Half-done lunar eclipse on June 4, 2012

At morning on Monday, June 4, 2012, the moon move in the shadow of the Earth, known as the "umbra", producing a partial lunar eclipse. This time, the umbra will cover 37% of the lunar disc.

The eclipse will start at 04:00 hours in the morning during the full moon. From this phenomenon, you can see how the white circle will begin to lose its perfection, as if he were a part.

It will be visible across the Pacific from China to the United States.

One can see this beautiful event, simply by using binoculars with 7 increases by 50 mm aperture, and so on. And, of course, also with a telescope.

The planet Venus will pass in front of the Sun

The planet Venus will pass in front of the Sun, in a unique show that will be watched by millions of people from almost all the Earth (between 22:09:30 hours June 5 and 4:49:35 pm of June 6), with the exception of some countries like Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, the Guiana’s and most of Brazil, as well as Spain, Portugal and some African countries.

It is an event not to be repeated during the life of anyone on Earth, as the next transit of Venus will occur in 2117.Required to observe a telescope or binoculars at least, as the shadow of Venus is too small to be observed with the naked eye. This is a serious danger, and to observe the Sun with a telescope can cause severe eye damage, so it is recommended telescopes equipped with special filters, spraying or, safer still: follow the internet.

MARS AND SATURN

The planet Saturn, with details could hardly see our eyes. You can see the Cassini Division separating the rings as well as details of its turbulent surface. Date: April 6, 2012. (Credit: Fernando Silva.)

The red planet is revealed in detail for the CCD camera Fernando Silva. The polluted skies over the city of Santiago de Chile are not an obstacle for the astrophotography captures the details of the Martian surface.

Using a telescope Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT, a Maksutov-Cassegrain with focal radius of 12, ideal for capturing planets and planetary camera of the same brand Reimage, Silva took videos of these objects with little exposure to then add several frames in register. 

The Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) and the open cluster M21.

 From the magnificent skies of the valleys of Coubertin, in the Observatory's Outdoor Corner the Chileans, the amateur Marcelo Caceres released its focal corrector with the Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) and the open cluster M21.

With simple equipment, a telescope Omni 150 and a computerized equatorial mount CG5, very well lined, fitted with a Canon EOS focal corrector took a picture of great beauty that left the audience amazed.

The Trifid nebula is a region rich in hydrogen gas where stars are being born, which ionize the gas in the vacuum of space making it highly incandescent. This is called an "H II region" and M20 is located in the Sagittarius Carina arm of our Milky Way, in the direction of Sagittarius. The bars which divide the cloud are dust-rich regions.

The Full Moon of June can be very bright

Last Saturday in May many people around the world came to observe the Great Full Moon by 2012, as was announced.But they forgot to announce that yet another full moon is super luminous for this year: next month, which will occur between 3 and 4 June (June 4 11:12 UT) 2012. At that time will have passed through its perigee 11 hours before and this will be 358,482 miles, slightly farther than in May (356,953 km), but in the southern hemisphere, the full moon will be farther south than in May, flying over the latitude 21 ° 12 'South, at the height of Tocopilla, so it will be brighter still.

The fossil footprints of those raindrops were to figure

The rain that fell 2,700 million years ago left its mark. An international team of scientists has analyzed the fossil footprints of those raindrops was to figure out how the early atmosphere of Earth.

"Precise measurements of atmospheric pressure back to 1644, when the Evangelist Torricelli invented the first barometer", tells SINC the researcher Sanjoy M. Som, University of Washington (USA). 

Contrary to popular belief, the results of the study, published this week in Nature, suggest that the atmospheric density bent not current levels.