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Three rocky planets, all "super-Earths" have been confirmed lying in the "habitable zone" around the star Gliese 667C where liquid water could exist. This makes them candidates for the presence of life. Only 22 light years away, you could send a message and get a reply within a human adult lifetime!
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Well you could if anyone smart enough was listening, but even microbes would be sensational.
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| Don’t forget the Perseids start tonight, peaking 11/12th August  .
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| Quote: The Devil's Advocate "Don’t forget the Perseids start tonight, peaking 11/12th August ![]()
Well, I presume you will be able to find a dark sky without going too far off the coast, and the best news is - no moon for you that night - so a comfy recliner, an mp3 player and headphones, and a case of cold beer or wine should see you right. I'm jealous.
Also if you're there on 7 August you will see the ISS go over from the W towards the NE bet. 701pm - 708pm
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| The Indian military has spent six months investigating 'Chinese spy drones' violating its air space - only to discover they were in fact Jupiter and Venus.
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Rare treat- meteor shower and a clear sky - if you're not out then DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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any idea where i could buy a map/chart of the stars. we ve had some good clear nights recently and stepping out into our garden we have ursa major just on the right of us and i d like to learn other formations .
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Voyager 1 finally leaves the solar system, can't believe a craft launched a full two months prior to "Star Wars: A New Hope" hitting UK cinemas and the fact it travels away from us at 1.4 million km per day is only entering interstellar space around this time! 
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Voyager 1 finally leaves the solar system, can't believe a craft launched a full two months prior to "Star Wars: A New Hope" hitting UK cinemas and the fact it travels away from us at 1.4 million km per day is only entering interstellar space around this time!
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Quote: CORNISH "any idea where i could buy a map/chart of the stars. we ve had some good clear nights recently and stepping out into our garden we have ursa major just on the right of us and i d like to learn other formations .
thanks in advance'"
To start, I would recommend a Planisphere. WH Smith do one, this is the basic
rlplanisphere for UK latitudesrl, for an extra fiver they do a glow in the dark one but I recommend the plain one and a red torch.
Then I recommend a free resource: www.heavens-above.com
You need to register, and when you put in your approximate location then each time you log on, you can get the info for your particular sky.
So if you were going out to see what you could see tonight, you go to the Sky Chart, change the time to whatever time you will be out, and print off your own personalized chart.
As a great alternative to preview what you can see outside, a must-have is Stellarium, a brilliant free program which you can download here: stellarium.org/ - just click on your OS at the top of the screen. In fact, whenever it is cloudy, just fire Stellarium up - you won't miss a thing!
However Heavens Above will give you as much info as you want; for example it'll tell you if and exactly when you can see the ISS (space station) cross over. Or get a list of every single satellite that will be flying over. Or Iridium flashes. You'll be surprised how much action there is, and Heavens Above tailors it to your actual sky view. |
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Quote: CORNISH "any idea where i could buy a map/chart of the stars. we ve had some good clear nights recently and stepping out into our garden we have ursa major just on the right of us and i d like to learn other formations .
thanks in advance'"
To start, I would recommend a Planisphere. WH Smith do one, this is the basic
rlplanisphere for UK latitudesrl, for an extra fiver they do a glow in the dark one but I recommend the plain one and a red torch.
Then I recommend a free resource: www.heavens-above.com
You need to register, and when you put in your approximate location then each time you log on, you can get the info for your particular sky.
So if you were going out to see what you could see tonight, you go to the Sky Chart, change the time to whatever time you will be out, and print off your own personalized chart.
As a great alternative to preview what you can see outside, a must-have is Stellarium, a brilliant free program which you can download here: stellarium.org/ - just click on your OS at the top of the screen. In fact, whenever it is cloudy, just fire Stellarium up - you won't miss a thing!
However Heavens Above will give you as much info as you want; for example it'll tell you if and exactly when you can see the ISS (space station) cross over. Or get a list of every single satellite that will be flying over. Or Iridium flashes. You'll be surprised how much action there is, and Heavens Above tailors it to your actual sky view. | |
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| Quote: MattyB "www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153
Voyager 1 finally leaves the solar system, can't believe a craft launched a full two months prior to "Star Wars: A New Hope" hitting UK cinemas and the fact it travels away from us at 1.4 million km per day is only entering interstellar space around this time! ![]()
What I find most amazing is that Voyager I's transmitter only has a power of 22 watts (yes, a quarter of a lightbulb) yet we can pick it up from 11.5 billion miles. But, in fact that's really bright when compared to most things radio telescopes study.
The signal, at 186,000 miles per second, takes around 17 hours to arrive back at Earth.
By the time it first arrived at Neptune, Voager I's fuel economy from Earth to Neptune averaged around 30,000 miles per gallon.
It is not leaving the solar system any time soon, though; that all depends on how you define it, but it is going to be a long while yet. The official Voyager site explains that one opinion is that the boundary is where the Sun’s gravity no longer dominates – a point beyond the planets and beyond the Oort Cloud. This boundary is roughly about halfway to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Travelling at over 35,000 mph, it will take Voyager nearly 40,000 years, and it will have travelled a distance of about two light years to reach that point.
It is however on the point of entering interstellar space, that is, crossing the heliopause.
But we will lose comms around 2025.
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"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion" – -- Unknown
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| Well, the contender for "Comet of the Centtury", Comet ISON, is almost here, and brightening nicely. If it continues at this rate, it might even be visible in daylight in late November and might be the brightest object in the night sky between Nov-Jan. That would be cool. it is only magnitude 10 at the moment (naked eye visibility starts around magnitude 6) but it is already easily found with small telescopes.
If you want to keep up-to-date there's a page rlhttps://www.cometison2013.co.uk/rlhere with all the latest info, images etc. Those who've downloaded the excellent free desktop planetarium software Stellarium can download the comet's details and auto find where it is at any given time. You can also follow @cometison2013. It's accelerated to over 80,000 mph now but will whizz by the Sun at approaching 1 million mph
And ISON will be around so many weeks, the good news is that it can't be clouded over on every single night. Can it?
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