• Comet Lovejoy now visible with naked eye

    Comet Lovejoy's tail is visible after all,  from around the southern hemisphere. It can be visible just before sunrise. Reports of two tails indicates that it develop dust and ion tail. The gaseous tail is blow almost directly away from the sun by solar wind

  • Amazing comet Lovejoy

    The unexpected survival of comet Lovejoy has amazed astronomers because most comets that have close encounters with the sun are destroyed. Many researchers predicted the comet would likely fizzle out, as the chances of its survival were so low. Comet

  • The Known Universe – 3-D journey through the observable universe

    American Museum of Natural History created a film “The Known Universe” as a part of an exhibition called “Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe” held at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan in May last year. The Known Universe takes

  • Scientists predict major shifts in Earth’s ecosystems

    Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., investigated how Earth’s plant life is likely to react over the next three centuries as Earth’s climate changes in response to rising levels of

  • Haze over northern India

    The haze which has been blanketing northern India for several weeks continues to plague the region in mid-December, 2011. The thick aerosol soup not only hugs the southern face of the Himalaya, but also pours southward over both coasts, stretching across the Bay of

  • Death of Comet Lovejoy – Update

    First video of Comet Lovejoy through the AIA telescope on @NASA_SDO

    First visual of Comet Lovejoy – watch here

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    SDO has completed the off-point maneuver, is sending the images to the ground. Look for images in few

  • Thousands of birds died landcrashing in Utah, US

    Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground. One state wildlife expert called the worst mass bird

  • It's raining apples in UK

    More than 100 apples rained down over a main road in Keresley, Coventry on Monday night. The street was left littered with apples. The bizarre downpour may have been caused by a current of air that lifted the fruit from a garden or orchard, releasing it over the

  • 50,000 artificially propagated sturgeons released in Yangtze river

    A total of 50,000 artificially propagated acipenser sinensis, Chinese sturgeon, have been born in Yichang, Central China’s Hubei province to increase wild stocks of the rare species. Strugeons, found in the Yangtze River, are one of the oldest creatures on the planet