Tag: space
Backyard Astrophotography
Backyard astronomy photography must be one of those really hard categories of photography which could possibly be done by a person who is just starting out a career in photography. It’s also one of those categories where you need to use a lot of equipment, which can be quite expensive. However, quite fortunately, there are [...]
Are There Other Beings Like Us in The Universe?
NASA is about to embark on a £428 million space mission in order to look for other planets which may have trails of alien existence. Scientists say that the 3 ½ year journey by the Kepler telescope, which is being considered as NASA’s biggest project so far, will enable us to find the answer to [...]
Two Huge Black Holes on a Collision Course!
March 11, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Black holes, which were once just a figment of our imagination, have now become real, but astronomers are becoming better at figuring out the stuff that are hard to find because they take in the light which passes through the event horizon. Black holes can be categorized into 2: fairly small ones formed due to [...]
Astronaut to Perform Civilian Requests and Do Push-Ups in Space
March 10, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
The Japanese astronaut, Koichi Wakata, has promised to perform sixteen strange tasks in ISS laboratories. These super sixteen tasks have been picked from a hoard of nearly 1597 requests which flocked in from the public. Among this list of sixteen are tasks such as folding clothes, arm wrestling with a fellow astronaut, shooting out liquid [...]
Richard Garriot fixing a toilet at zero-gravity!
Richard Garriot a professional video game designer and programmer,son of Owen K. Garriot who is an astronaut and a scientist,on Octomber 12,2008 he has launched aboard Soyuz TMA-13 with help of the International Space station(8:26 GMT,3:26 EST).This means for Garriot 10 days of floating around the Earth,photographing the Earth’s surface for comparing his pictures to [...]
