This is now official, even if there is no life on Mars, there is at least water. This most interesting founding is due to the US NASA and its Mars Phoenix Lander mission. The mission begun on May 25th and was extended one month until the end of September as the findings are very interesting …
What happens when it is Monday evening and you haven’t posted the article you generally publish on Sunday ? Well, it’s easy, you write a quick article. My review of this month’s astrophotographies will thus be brief, very brief. As a matter of fact there won’t be any descriptions of the photos I liked, just …
Since my article last month, the NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day has been packed with images taken from Mars, thanks to the Phoenix mission. It also proposed us some very nice pictures from various celestial views such as Saturn’s rings (left, taken by the Cassini mission) or the usual pictures of galaxies. An interesting …
This month have been like the previous one, packed with beautiful pictures proposed by the NASA and it’s astronomy picture of the day. You will find in today’s article my selection of the most beautiful photos. They will make you travel from the vincinity of Earth to the infinity of the Universe. APOD proposed also …
I haven’t posted anything on astrophotography since my article on the avalanches on Mars. And these pictures weren’t that beautiful or anything else but scientific material. So, as the NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of the Day comprised last weeks some very beautiful pictures, I propose you here my favorites of the past few weeks. I hope …
Nouveau logo, nouvelle maquette, nouveau site Internet mais toujours la même passion pour l’astronomie, le magazine Ciel & Espace revient encore plus fort. J’étais avant de lire ce mensuel plutôt intéressé par l’astronomie, mais depuis que je le retrouve dans ma boite aux lettres chaque mois, c’est une véritable passion. Je détaillerai dans l’article d’aujourd’hui …
The European Space Agency observed for the first time in the history of sciences the emissions of carbon dioxide at a regional scale. This enable us to see from where these greenhouse gas emissions come from and thus to act locally to decrease them. As the map above shows, the most emitting regions are located …
David Bowie once sung that there is Life on Mars, but scientifically this has to be proved. However, there are already avalanches of carbon dioxide ice. The picture on the left was taken last month by a NASA mission. It shows clearly that such a phenomenon occurs in the Northern Hemisphere of the planet. This …
Last night was successfully installed on the International Space Station the laboratory Columbus. This is a major event as it is the first European module to be part of the ISS. Both the ESA and NASA, respectively the European and US space agencies, expressed their delight of such a major success on their websites. Columbus …
My daily browsing includes having a look at the Astronomy Picture Of the Day (APOD). Sunday’s one is as often with NASA’s images, absolutely fabulous. I really appreciate this photo because of the strong contrast between the left and right parts of the image, the black colliding with the white, the dark red versus the …
The fairy of Eagle Nebula and star trails at dawn Read More »
