Nowadays, solar eclipses are seen as a fascinating natural phenomenon. In earlier times, people viewed them instead as something threatening, since the Sun provides us with light and heat, without which life on Earth could not flourish. However, the cause of solar eclipses is now generally known: On its orbit around the Earth, the Moon [...]
NASA CASSINI MISSION SENDS BACK PIX FROM SATURN'S MANY MOONS Let's take a tour of some of the many moons of Saturn, courtesy of NASA's Cassini Mission. Some of the photos have been around for a couple months, while others are "hot off the press". Included in this virtual tour of Saturn's Moons are Janus, Rhea, Hyperion, Dione, Penelope, Titan and Enceladus. There are many more, but these...
In what will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody on earth, New Moon opened up at number one in the US box office and is expected to stay there until the world ends, or the next film comes out, whatever…
Season 4 of BSG has some amazing tracks the best is the one where Starbuck learns the code to Earth called "Kara's Co-ordinates" and "the Passage Of Time", which is the track that takes us from Earth where the Colonials arrive to present day. The New Moon soundtrack at first is not as good the Twilight soundtrack but we have had it on all week and it is getting better.
"It provided the first thermal images of the far side of the moon and also images of Earth and the Moon from distances as great as 560,000km and 850,000 km away, respectively."Hit the link for more...
There’s a great video making the rounds showing what it would look like if Earth had a ring system like Saturn’s, including some gorgeous views from the ground. Of course, rings probably wouldn’t be stable with our moon, or at least would look very different, but that doesn’t take away from the coolness of this [...]
Why Not Harvest Pianos Instead': The British TV series UFO will be turned into a movie starring Joshua Jackson . Jackson will play Paul Foster, a test pilot who works for a covert agency that defends earth against a race of organ-harvesting aliens. Matthew Gratzner , the visual effects supervisor on Iron Man , will be making his directing debut. He'll also be making explosions. [ Variety ] It's a...
Henrik Van Bunt is a character from the new animated series by My Little Big Town, Cat On The Moon. A biker and die-hard heavy metal fan, Henrik originally hails from Denmark (back on Earth). Now living above a chip shop on the Moon, Henrik is just another of the regulars at the George Pub. [...]
Astronomer Stuart Clark joins us in the studio to look at the latest thinking about the effects of variations in solar activity on the Earth's climate. Dark matter gets a mention too. Over the coming days he will be conducting question-and-answer sessions on Twitter - both on solar activity and dark matter. Follow him at DrStuClark and post your questions using the prefix #AskDrStu. (2:00) There's...
Light House Collection 20 (21.11.2009) Tracklist: 01 A State Of Mind - The Fly Away 2009 (Alex and Waveshock Mix) 02 Angie Stone - I Wasnt Kidding (Freemasons Vocal Club Mix) 03 Armand De France Feat Ange - I Say Ride On (Brockmans Sexy Sax Remix) 04 Armin Van Buuren feat. Sharon Den Adel - In And Out Of Love (Amir Marcus Remake 2009) 05 ATFC - I Called U (Atfc's Heated Conversation) 06 Beachclub69...
The Lady In The Red Dress by aneel ahmad PT 1 It was a late evening the rain was pouring, the sky was vivid orange. I got out of my car & gradually strolled to the bay window to peer once more. It’s become a daily routine, just to steal a glance at her dancing. The Lady In the red dress. Out of the crowd the one whom always caught my eye, the one I adored. She always mesmerised and brought...
Bad Astronomy reports astronomers have spotted a potential Type Ia supernova in our own galaxy. This is a white dwarf that orbits a normal star like the Sun, it draws material off and as this matter piles up on the dense core of the white dwarf it can eventually detonate like a stellar thermonuclear bomb. The object is about 25,000 light years away and may go supernova within a couple of thousands...
Out of clouds flur owls. White tinder, tumbling through the gulf, black earth their touch paper. Lambs sing and suckle. Irises shrink, tossing and turning in their beds. Night is gnawed by stags. The blue moon, circus girl with silver studs and cherry lips, bares a breast. The chandelier hemisphere pricks with stars, litters glass over the fields. One owl tears out of its dive, silently arcs in suicide...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/ Director: Duncan Jones User Rating: 8.0/10 8,709 votes Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller Plot: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
The reason why the development of human society to today's well-developed and advanced, the most fundamental reason is that humans have always cherished a dream of perseverance. From the Archimedes on the idea of leveraging the Earth to the Jules Verne fantasy on the submarine and landing on the moon; from the Wright brothers on the dream of flying to the idea of Einstein's space-time conversion. Human...
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Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.1 , an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. EarthDesk 5 was entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is compatible with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Version 5.1 adds a new cloud contrast control, fixes minor bugs and has several internal improvements. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of...