Tagged: Astronomy and Space

While researching for some course work in Introduction to Astronomy for AMU, my six year old little boy was looking over my shoulder. So, I figured I'd explain to him that "Daddy is looking...

On June 1 and 2, 1998, two comets entered and burned up in Sol’s atmosphere. Interestingly, a coronal mass ejection of gas and magnetic energy occurred on June 2, 1998 following the entrance of...

Neptune’s satellites all travel in one direction with the strange exception of Triton’s retrograde orbit. Triton is believed to have been a small planet like Pluto until it was “captured” by Neptune, instead of...

Umbriel is the fourth largest satellite orbiting Uranus. Unlike the other moons orbiting Uranus, this moon is strangely dark. In fact, it reflects only about half the light of the other moons. Given the...

On October 25, 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took a fascinating photo of mass transference between two galaxies. The two galaxies, located in the constellation Taurus, are known as NGC 1409 and NGC 1410....

January 25, 2004 Our Fascination and Future on Mars American Military University SC104, Introduction to Astronomy by James Landrith Mars, also known as the Red Planet, has long fascinated humanity. From the people of...

There are some excellent photos of Jovian aurora from the Hubble Space Telescope and Galileo available here: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001219.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980123.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970609.html   Links courtesy of Physics Forums. This entry also posted in the American Military...

Jupiter is often described as not only a gas giant, but “almost a sun” or a “failed star.” Surprisingly, Jupiter and Sol share similar atmospheric contents: Sol: Hydrogen – 78 percent; Helium – 19.8...

It is believed by some scientists that the atmosphere of gas giants like Jupiter have retained much of their original atmospheric molecules since their formation. This is believed to be due to their higher...

Mercury Size: 4879 km Distance from Sun: 57,910,000 km Atmospheric composition: 42 % helium, 42% sodium and 15% oxygen Moons: none Orbit: 88 Earth days (highly elliptical) Rotation on axis: 58.6 Earth days Discovery...