SPACE, NASA & ASTRONOMY
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Picture Of The Week View All The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy.
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Solstice Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science
The luster will be a bit "off" on Dec. 21st, the first day of northern winter, when the full Moon passes almost dead-center through Earth's shadow. For 72 minutes of eerie totality, an amber light will play across the snows of North America, throwing landscapes into an unusual state of ruddy shadow. The eclipse begins on Tuesday morning, Dec. 21st, at 1:33 am EST (Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST). At that time, Earth's shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the "bite" to expand and swallow the entire Moon.NASA Science
March 21, 2012 In Orbiter Processing Facility-2 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour’s left orbital maneuvering system OMS pod ...
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Stellarium
Stellarium 0.11.2 is a stable version that introduces some new features and closes 47 bug and wishlist reports. A lot of work has been done on making translatable text that wasn't localized before. This includes most of the text used by the default plug-ins, landscapes, countries, script names and descriptions. The Oculars plug-in now has an optional control panel with buttons for those affected by the "missing menu" bug, but it needs to be enabled in the Oculars configuration window.
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Our Moon, on May 20th, will pass directly in front of the sun for people living in China, Japan and some of the western states here in America. This is a morning event in Asia on May 21st, but a late evening event, for us on the 20th. As you look at the animation above, you will note that the moon doesn't completely cover the sun. This type of eclipse is called an annular eclipse of the sun -- which makes it a partial eclipse of the sun . Had the moon been as large as the sun or larger, then we would have had a total eclipse of the sun ... but in this instance, this is not the case. Notice the people, the sky, and the landscape in the four photos above: the sun is still shining.