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Scarab Beetle of Ancient Egypt, mystery and use in spells
Published on 2013-02-27 09:38:00
For the ancient Egyptians the common scarab beetle, Scarabaeus sacer, was a daily reminder of KHEPRI, the manifestation of the sun god RE in the early morning. Khepri's job was to help the rising Sun journey across the sky each day, and he is often p
Refractor or Reflector, for Deep Sky Photography
Published on 2013-02-13 13:28:00
If you target for faint deep sky imaging, then you will need a very good quality optics, and these come in two main designs, refractors and reflectors. Refractors are the ones with the main objective lens at the front, reflectors counts on a big ligh
Sir Isaac Newton, The big idea
Published on 2013-02-08 10:33:00
Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist who created the foundations of modern-day classical mechanics. The core of this was his representation of universal gravitation and explains the existing three laws of motion, which he brought together under
Discovery reveals dwarf planet with no atmosphere
Published on 2013-02-08 08:57:00
A lately discovered dwarf planet located 4 billion miles from Earth, has been revealed to have no atmosphere,,Thanks to an extremely rare stellar eclipse, where the dwarf planet "Makemake"
Literacy in Ancient Egypt
Published on 2012-09-21 12:10:00
Most people in ancient Egypt did not know how to read and write. Since the
Language of the Ancient Egyptians
Published on 2012-09-21 11:55:00
The ancient Egyptians spoke a language which called now "Egyptian". No one exactly knows the correct pronunciation of this language, which in any event changed greatly over the course of several thousand years (as did the written language), and maybe there were regional dialects and variations in pronunciation as well.The language is known only through its various written forms, the most formal of which is the pictorial script called hieroglyphic. The Greek word "hieroglyph" literally means "sac [..]
Curiosity Mission in Pictures, Part 3: Launch Prepare & Take Off
Published on 2012-09-01 22:33:00
On April 2004, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) called for scientific experiments and instruments proposals for a planned Mars Science Laboratory rover mission. Launch was proposed for September 2009. Eight proposals were selected, including instruments from Russia and Spain. Testing of components also began in late 2004, including Aerojet's monopropellant engine with the ability to throttle from 15–100 percent thrust with a fixed propellant inlet pressure [..]
Curiosity Mission in Pictures, Part 2: The Build & Launch Prepare
Published on 2012-09-01 15:59:00
Mars Science Laboratory Mission's Curiosity Rover (Right) This stereoscopic anaglyph image was created from a left and right stereo pair of images of the Mars Science Laboratory mission's rover, Curiosity.
Curiosity Mission in Pictures, the build.. Part 1
Published on 2012-08-30 17:19:00
NASA's new rover "Curiosity" will take Mars exploration to an entirely new level of discovery, with state of the art advanced payload of scientific equipment
Mars dust twister cleaning surface
Published on 2012-08-14 14:42:00
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the Red Planet since 2006, captured some martian spring cleaning February 16 in the Amazonis Planitia region on the northern part of the planet.As the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera looked on, a spinning column of air some 30 yards or meters in diameter lofted freshly deposited soil more than a half-mile (800m) in the air.Like on Earth, such dust devils form when heated air near the surface rises quickly through a sma [..]
Rectangular Galaxies, a new type or just an optical illusion
Published on 2012-08-14 12:45:00
Is there new types of galaxies that's not discovered yet? of course there are, the universe is a massive playground, but what about this one. According to a May 10 paper
The Mystery of Hindu Statues Drinking Milk
Published on 2012-05-09 10:04:00
On 21st September 1995, reports started to come out of New Delhi of Hindu statues drinking milk.
The Pyramid Texts
Published on 2012-05-02 13:22:00
The Pyramid Texts are the oldest of the three principal collections of Egyptian funerary literature. 19 They are also among the earliest religious writings known from anywhere in the world. The texts are divided into sections; each is preceded by an Egyptian phrase meaning "words to be spoken" but sometimes translated
What's the mystery about the Sphinx
Published on 2012-04-19 17:08:00
Sphinx, one of the icons of Egypt, it is a mythical beast usually with the head of a king - occasionally a queen or the head of a ram - and the body of a lion. The most famous is the "Great Sphinx" at Giza plateau near Cairo, which is carved from an outcropping of rock in the funerary complex of King Chephren (Khafre, 2558–2532 B.C.).The great sphinx represents “Horus of the Horizons,” the sun god when he rises in the east. It is believed that the face of the great sphinx is a likeness of [..]
Astro 3D images
Published on 2012-03-13 18:47:00
Anaglyph image of Moon Craters Astronaut on moon stereo 3DMars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars 3D Image Mars Crater 3D Image False Color 3D image of Jupiter storm Saturn 3D image taken from voyager space probAsteroid EROS 3D imageRelated Posts:Saturn HQ Wallpapers and PicturesAstronaut HQ Wallpapers and PicturesDinosaur DNA, anyone?Top 10: Space WeaponsWhen Giant Black Holes CollideWhat ha [..]
Food in ancient Egypt
Published on 2012-01-20 15:10:00
The ancient Egyptians were known for their skills of producing food and for their healthy cuisines, bread and beer were the main staples of the ancient Egyptian diet. They were made from the two major cereals cultivated in Dynastic Egypt, emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum) and six-row barley (Hordeum vulgare subsp. Hexastichum). Tomb scenes of baking and brewing are known, as are three-dimensional models of these activities.At Giza 4th-Dynasty bakeries have been excavated, and real bread has been p [..]
HQ Space Shuttle Pictures
Published on 2011-09-29 19:00:00
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What Makes Balloons Bang When Popped
Published on 2011-09-26 14:54:00
What makes it goes bang when popped, the science behind it.The air in a balloon is at a higher pressure than its surroundings because the elastic tension of the balloon skin is pulling inwards. When you stick a pin in the side it creates a tiny hole.The rubber around the edge of the hole isn't being pulled uniformly in all directions any more because there isn't any force exerted from the center of the hole.So the net force pulls the rubber away from the hole, which makes it bigger and the force [..]
History of Solar System Buried on the Moon
Published on 2011-09-25 20:09:00
Unlike the Earth's surface, which is being constantly scrubbed dean by erosion and plate tectonics, the face of the moon is ancient and scarred, sporting some of the largest impact craters in the Solar System.Meteorites on MoonThis lunar cratering tells the story of the Late Heavy Bombardment, and the pounding of the planets of the inner Solar System shortly after their formation. This period of intense bombardment probably delayed the earliest lime Ilia! life could take hold on our planet. But [..]
New Type of Cosmic Background
Published on 2011-09-25 17:57:00
A team of scientists using a sensitive balloon-borne instrument has found an unexplained hiss of relatively low-frequency radio pervading the universe. The discovery represents yet another type of "cosmic background radiation" - distant emission coming from everywhere on the sky - to go along with the backgrounds previously discovered in microwaves, infrared light, X-rays, and gamma rays.Team leader Alan Kogut (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) calls it "exciting evidence for something new in th [..]
Planets Without Stars, Wanders Galaxy Alone
Published on 2011-09-24 21:21:00
Astronomers have found a new type of planet drifting by itself through space, unbounded to any star. By scanning the crowded center of our Milky Way Galaxy, the international team discovered up to 10 Jupiter sized "orphan planets; about 10,000 to 20,000 light-years from Earth. Details appeared in a May 19 study in Nature. Such lonely planets had long been predicted, but this is the first time data support their existence. "Our survey is like a population census; says co-author David Bennett of t [..]
Saturn HQ Wallpapers and Pictures
Published on 2011-07-26 19:14:00
Saturn Moon SystemSaturn Pictures Seen from Near and Far - Saturn Pictures from Hubble and Cassini Hubble: NASA, ESA and Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona) Cassini: NASA/JPLMoons of SaturnIntel on Saturn Wallpaper, SourceThis diagram highlights a slice of Saturn's largest ring. The ring (red band in inset photo) was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which detected infra-red light, or heat, from the dusty ring material. Spitzer viewed the ring edge-on from its Earth-trailing orb [..]
Astronaut HQ Wallpapers and Pictures
Published on 2011-07-19 15:09:00
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The Most Distant Galaxy Super Cluster
Published on 2011-07-08 15:32:00
Galaxies are usually found as members of clusters. Rich clusters can have thousands of members and poor clusters may have only dozens of galaxies. The clustering of galaxies is an important constraint on cosmological models and the degree of clustering in the Universe today is related to the anisotropies in the matter distribution of the early universe. Margaret Geller and colleagues at Princeton University have mapped a portion of the Universe and attempts are currently being made to characteri [..]
New Types of Supernovae
Published on 2011-06-21 16:50:00
Supernovae - stars that explode completely- come in an ever more bewildering variety. They were originally classified by their spectra rather by any understanding of what was actually happening, but we now know that they come in two basic varieties.
The Ogopogo
Published on 2011-06-21 15:02:00
Hidden treasures and lost cities are often a sparkling targets to bounty hunters. Now it seems mythical beasts are also the object of bounty hunters' affections. Between August 2000 and September 2001three companies from around Lake Okanegan promised
The Beast of Bodmin Mystery
Published on 2011-06-01 16:45:00
The Beast of Bodmin, also known as "the Beast of Bodmin Moor" like "the Beast of Exmoor", is a phantom wild cat which is claimed to range in Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Bodmin Moor became a centre of these sightings with frequent reports of cripp
The Unstable Crab Nebula
Published on 2011-05-23 14:16:00
HistoryOn the 4th of July 1054 or maybe even earlier, in April or May that year, a new bright star near the Sun was observed in the constellation of Taurus by witnesses in Italy, Armenia, Iraq, China, Japan, and North America. The unusual object appe
Kepler's Latest Hunting Trips
Published on 2011-05-20 10:04:00
Torrents of likely new exoplanets are pouring in from NASA's Kepler space telescope - more than 1,200 of them so far, large and small, including weird worlds and systems that no one expected. The Kepler science team unveiled its latest batch of findi
Listening to black holes
Published on 2011-05-19 14:50:00
The lowest note ever produced in the universe is B flatEver wondered what a black hole sounds like? As NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope recently discovered, is B flat.Unfortunately there's no way of listening to it because the note is 57 octaves below
The Hunt For New Planets
Published on 2011-04-07 16:48:00
The Extra Terrestrial PlanetsThey have been among the hottest things in astronomy for more than a decade. But let's face it. Giant Jupiters, fried Neptunes, inflated fat Saturns, pairs of giants in resonant orbits - these are just lead-ups to the mai
Is This an Alien Planet
Published on 2011-04-06 14:23:00
Most methods for finding extra-solar planets favor worlds very close to their stars. Direct imaging, on the other hand, favors those far away - at least when it looks for an object's own infrared heat glow, rather than reflected starlight. Young gian
The Mystery of the Million-mass Smith’s Cloud
Published on 2011-03-27 11:09:00
The beginningGail Bieger-Smith is a 69 old woman who lives a quiet life in Wassenaar, a small, wealthy town west of Leiden, the Netherlands. She never expected to be dragged again by her brief astronomy career 45 years ago, but in early January she s
Meteorites from Mercury
Published on 2011-03-27 09:29:00
A rare few rocks lying around on Earth may have been blasted here from Mercury, say two Canadian theorists. It is known that most meteorites which found on earth comes from asteroids, but a few only came from the Moon and Mars and they are very rare.
Camping and Outdoor Lanterns
Published on 2011-03-12 10:54:00
What is a lanternA lantern simply is a portable flashlight case with transparent sides to give to allow the light to be spread around the lantern 360 degrees unlike the spot-bean of the regular flashlight, it is like you taking a living room lamp wit
The Future of Energy from Tides and Waves
Published on 2011-03-11 08:21:00
Water crashes against the steep, rocky cliffs on the western coast of Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands north of Scotland. The waves comping from the Atlantic are typically 6 to 10 feet high in the summer. In winter, they can reach 30 feet(
Alien Signal Detected
Published on 2011-02-27 10:36:00
A remarkable radio emission from a neighboring galaxy cough on June 2010 may be the indication of an alien civilization astrophysicists have been looking for.when astrophysicists started monitoring a stellar explosion in a galaxy near our own Milky W
Infrared Astronomy
Published on 2011-02-06 10:08:00
Infrared light or (IR) is an electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength longer than that of visible light that naked eye can see, starting from the nominal edge of visible red light at 0.7 micrometres, and extending gradually to 300 micrometers.Thes
Near Earth Objects Danger and Studies
Published on 2011-02-04 14:31:00
Near-Earth Objects or NEOs are those asteroids that have escaped the confines of the main belt.They roam freely among the planets of the inner Solar System in which Earth is the largest target.Asteroid 433 Eros was the first discovered to have left t
Book of the Dead Mystery and Secrets
Published on 2011-02-03 17:51:00
The "Book of the Dead" is an illustrated papyrus scroll placed in the tomb as a guidebook for the deceased during his perilous journey through the "Nether World" in the after life. The Book of the Dead is a composite of ancient Egypt's oldest and mos
The Book of Gates in the Egyptian Mythology
Published on 2011-02-03 08:38:00
One of three major myths about the sun god compiled in the New Kingdom(1550–1069 B.C.), the Book of Gates refers to the 12 gates separating the hours of the night. It is a vast body of writings, spells, and incantations collected from the religious
Epsilon Aurigae Solved at Last?
Published on 2011-01-23 08:34:00
A strange mystery puzzled scientists for years, now it might be solved with the help of newer technologies. A group of astronomers claims a breakthrough in the long-standing mystery of Epsilon Aurigae. This 3rd-magnitude star, a type-F super giant 13
Barlow Lenses and Focal Reducers
Published on 2011-01-20 10:20:00
Simply, it's a concave (negative) lens placed between a telescope objective and eyepiece to increase the magnification, usually by two or three times. The negative lens reduces the angle of convergence of the light cone, effectively making it appear
Crop Circles, History and Theories
Published on 2011-01-15 16:56:00
Strange circles or unusual geometric designs have been discovered in cereal crops around the world, even in the rice paddies of Japan. The designs are often hundreds of feet in diameter and length and may cover many acres. While many people believe t
Eyepieces for Telescope
Published on 2011-01-06 09:46:00
What is the EyepieceThe eyepiece is the lens assembly at the focal point of the telescope that forms and magnifies the image. Most telescopes, even department store types, come with at least one for initial use. Sadly today many of the major manufact
Science for Kids: Things you didn't know about Light
Published on 2010-12-31 08:52:00
What is "Light"Light is a type of energy. It is a form of electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength which canbe detected by the human eye. In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagneticradiation of any wavelength, whether visible or n
What are the types of galaxies
Published on 2010-12-09 15:11:00
Galaxies are certainly among the most popular targets for amateur astronomers. They show an incredibly wide range of size, shape, and internal structure has undoubtedly lead to their fascination among both amateurs and professional astronomers alike.
Inception Lucid Dreaming, The Easy Way
Published on 2010-11-28 08:57:00
Inception was a major blockbuster movie introduced in summer 2010, indeed was a stunning movie yet mind blowing one, written and directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Memento) and starring an international cast (Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Pag
Gamma Ray Burst Danger and Studies
Published on 2010-11-21 11:44:00
For 25 years, cosmic gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have been one of the great mysteries of modern astronomy. GRBs have given us several clues as to what they might be. GRBs were seen to occur frequently and appeared to be spread evenly over the sky. Their
What happens when galaxies collide?
Published on 2010-09-23 09:56:00
When two nearby galaxies attracted to each other by their gravitational force (a relatively common event in galaxy evolution), their gases collide violently. As gas and dust smash together at speeds of millions of miles an hour, they combine the raw
Sunspot: Sharpest View Yet in Visible Light
Published on 2010-08-31 08:39:00
This crisp view of a sunspot, captured by New Jersey Institute of Technology's New Solar Telescope and released last week, may be the most detailed picture of its kind yet shot in visible light, astronomers say.The 5.25-foot (1.6-meter) telescope, wh
Sun storm to hit earth with 'force of 100m bombs' in 2012
Published on 2010-08-27 20:20:00
After about ten years of sleeping, the giant is waking up - and it's got astronomers on full alert. This week several US media outlets reported that NASA was warning the massive flare that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month wa
Sea of the Devil: Dragon Triangle
Published on 2010-08-15 19:06:00
The Bermuda triangle's infamous association with disappearing boats and aircraft is known across the globe. Less well known is an area off the west coast of Japan which has an equally deadly history. It is an area where Japanese sailors fear to voyag
Scientists find 'monster' star using Very Large Telescope
Published on 2010-08-07 19:02:00
The most massive star ever, which is up to 20 million times brighter than the Sun, has been discovered using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, scientists in Britain said Wednesday.The star, named R136a1, is thought to have started off with a mass of
Five-Pointed Laser Telescope Gives Astronomers Clear Shot to Heaven
Published on 2010-08-07 15:03:00
Star gazing just got a whole lot better thanks to five green lasers punching a pentagon pattern 15 miles high in the sky.Devised by an astronomy team in Arizona and funded by the National Science Foundation, scientists have created a method to get cr
Panasonic unveils first handheld 3D camcorders
Published on 2010-08-01 19:21:00
The camcorders look like regular handy-size video cameras and can capture conventional 2D video and images, but by adding a conversion lens adapter, they can capture in 3D. The adapter has two small lenses that each capture a slightly different image
Siphonophore: Deep-sea super organism
Published on 2010-06-30 21:39:00
Another monster discovered in the deepest and weirdest waters in the world, here is some terrific video of a bioluminescent deep-sea siphonophore, an eerily fantastic creature that appears to be a single, large organism, but which is actually a colon
What is the God Particle ?
Published on 2010-06-23 16:46:00
The most asked, most controversial question in physics today is what determines mass in an object. It is mentioned on the movie "Angels and Demons", the "God Particle" is the nickname of a subatomic particle called the Higgs boson. In layman’s te
Live stream of gulf oil spill
Published on 2010-06-20 19:45:00
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