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Well this time of year. Everywhere you look on the Internet there are top 10 lists. Top 10 songs of 2010, the top 10 news, sports, top 10 plays. Frankly I become disenchanted in such lists. Therefore, I bring you the top ten, but rather just look back at some of my favorite stories in [...]

Continue Reading A look back at the space and astronomy in 2010

I must say I am very surprised. Last week I asked is Pluto a planet, offering some insight and criticism about the current state of affairs. And to my surprise I received very few answers. Sometimes I use this tactic in a class by creating a solution or theory and call class to throw away. [...]

Continue Reading Should Pluto be a Planet?

Some of them were quick to describe the recent opening of the first data about alien life, but which unfortunately, is jumping the gun. This recent announcement but would we look for life on other worlds. All previously known life comprises the same basic building blocks; namely carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. These [...]

Continue Reading NASA discovers life unlike anything seen before

Space shuttle fleet will step down next year (wait, of course, on whether they can get some cracking problem licked). Although orbit will be sold at the prices in millions of dollars in museums, universities and schools across the country will be able to own at least a little piece of heritage space shuttle. About [...]

Continue Reading Schools can order space shuttle tile for educational use

In a recent article BY NASA claims that a new study indicates that a new explanation as Oort Cloud–outer reaches of our solar system–became filled with Comet. A long-standing problem for the theory of evolution of our solar system, comets in the cloud of Oort abundance is out of balance with the amount to be [...]

Continue Reading Sun is a thief? New theory seeks to explain the origins of comets

Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Federally funded space agencies, with a budget of multi-billion dollar announces plan to launch one of its storied spacecraft orbits. Then they delayed launch. Once again. Then again. And again. Then, yup you guessed it, another delay. Okay so it doesn’t quite work like comic shtick, but nevertheless, [...]

Continue Reading Launch of space shuttle Discovery, delayed until 3 February 2011

Stargazing is a tricky business. From the timeline on which they are not watching Star evolve from its infancy until her death. That is why we survey thousands and thousands of stars, looking for patterns and to submit all information to form a coherent theory of stellar evolution. One only needs to examine the Hertzsprung-Russell [...]

Continue Reading Scientists Watch early evolution of the black hole

There has been a lot of discussion over the last couple of weeks to send men to Mars. This was one of the objectives of the NASA space program for a while now, and there even was a discussion about sending astronauts live on the surface of the red planet. But all this interesting question; [...]

Continue Reading As we get to Mars?