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5 Facts about Two Earth-Like Alien Planets found recently
Jun 22nd
It started way back! A lot of great movies like interstellar, Martian, Star Trek, Alien and so on are based on creating human future on planets other than the Earth. We human beings have always been trying to search for something more, probably think of a situation where you get to celebrate your birthday/Anniversary on the moon or any other planet inhabited by humans or similar species. Wouldn’t it be awesome?
And today when the news arrives that scientist and researchers are almost on the verge of inventing life on an uninhabited or unknown planet gives us goosebumps. Yes! Life is possible just like a few decades back when far away communication was almost impossible and today, we have options of call, video calls, and conferences. Thus, anything is possible considering aliens, life on unknown planets or UFO.
Here we present you some facts about the two planets discovered possibly may have life:
1. These two planets orbit a star known as More >
NASA launched twin satellites GRAIL-A and GRAIL-B for its moon research mission
Sep 12th
NASA finally launched its moon research mission, after a couple of weather delays. The launched twin satellites named Grail A and Grail B short form for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory took off on Saturday morning at 0908 EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to unveil the inner secrets of the moon. The two probes will study the moon’s internal structure in unprecedented detail, shedding light on whether a second moon crashed into it long ago.
GRAIL will study how the moon was formed. It will explore “the structure of the lunar interior, from crust to core… to advance understanding of the thermal evolution of the moon,” NASA said.
The first of the two robotic spacecraft separated from the Delta II upper stage 1 hour and 21 minutes after launch at 10:28 a.m. ET and the second spacecraft separated eight minutes later.
Even though the spacecraft duo was launched on the same day, they will arrive at the moon one day apart. The first orbiter, GRAIL-A arrives on 31 Dec 2011 and GRAIL-B arrives 25 hours later on 1 Jan 2012. More >
Lunar Eclipse on June 15th 2011
Jun 15th
Today’s Lunar Eclipse is the longest complete lunar eclipse with in past 11 years. According to some astronomers the moon will get blood red during the early morning hours. The longest lunar eclipse occurred last time was in July 2000 and after 11 years today is the day we can watch another longest complete lunar eclipse which will last for around 100 minutes.
The Sky Watchers Association of North Bengal (SWAN) in India will be doing a live web cast of the event which starts at 20:12:36 UT, which is 15:12:36 EST. So people in US can watch the eclipse in the mid-afternoon.
According to a astronomy center in Victoria, Australia More >
Lunar Eclipse 2010 Live Video
Dec 21st
Full Lunar eclipse for the year of 2010 is to be witnessed tonight in the southern region of Europe. The people of united states are able to see the total eclipse whereas parts of Europe and Africa will see it partially. This would be the first total lunar eclipse in almost 3 years as the last total lunar eclipse was on February 20, 2008.
The start of the eclipse will begin December 21 after midnight EST on December 21 in North and South America while it will be visible in Northern Europe just before sunrise. The end of the total lunar eclipse 2010 will also be visible at Sunset for Japan and northeastern Asia. In Philippines it will be visible after sunset as a partial lunar eclipse. More >