Blogs Posts in Lunar Astronomy category; 78 blog posts

Astrology: Adventurous Sagittarius Full Moon & Lunar Eclipse

Good time to finish projects, wrap up/tie up details of any outstanding issues while there is a Full Moon phase.  However, a Lunar Eclipse also occurs at the same time and in the same upbeat Fire sign of Sagittarius on Wednesday June [...]

Posted On : Jun, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Big Asteroid's Approach in November Excites Astronomers

  An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier will come closer to Earth this autumn than our own moon does, causing scientists to hold their breath as it zooms by. But they'll be nervous with excitement, not with worry about a [...]

Posted On : May, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Backward planets puzzle astronomers

Astronomers have discovered a number of planets outside our solar system that orbit the "wrong" way, challenging theories about how planets form. Scientists announced the discovery of nine new planets at a meeting of the Royal [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Supernova Explosion Gets 3-D Makeover

A star that died in a supernova explosion has been resurrected by a team of forensic astronomers that has built a new 3-D view of the long-dead object using echoes of light. Astronomers were able to assemble one of the first 3-D per [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Dark energy in 3-D

A 3-D scan of hundreds of thousands of galaxies has confirmed the view that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, due to a mysterious factor called dark energy. The galaxy survey, described in a study set to be published by the j [...]

Posted On : Mar, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomers back up Einstein

An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the universe, at least within a distance of 3.5 billion light years of Earth, obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The study, published this week in Nature, [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomers discover youngest planet orbiting a solar-type s...

Researchers say the giant planet, named BD+20 1790b, is 35 million years old and six times the mass of Jupiter. It is situated 83 light years away from Earth and is the youngest planet orbiting a star of a similar size to the sun, the as [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

Longest solar eclipse of the millennium on Jan 15

The duration of the eclipse will be approximately around 11 minutes and 8 seconds. The moon will cover the sun’s disc. Annular solar eclipse occurs when the sun and the moon are exactly in line, but the apparent size of the moon&rsquo [...]

Posted On : Jan, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Waterworld planet is more Earth-like than any discovered bef...

A giant waterworld that is wet to its core has been spotted in orbit around a dim but not too distant star, improving the odds that habitable planets may exist in our cosmic neighbourhood. The planet is nearly three times as large as Earth [...]

Posted On : Jan, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Rare New Year's Eve 'blue moon'

Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue  the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial nei [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Exoplanet Found by Astrometry Not Really There?

In May 2009, astronomers were jubilant: finally, an extra solar planet had been found by using the method of astrometry.  That’s great, except, they may not have found a planet after all. Researchers from JPL reported they found [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2009 | Comments : 0