June 3 : Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) at 17h UT (distance 404,266 km; angular size 29.4′).
June 4: Last Quarter Moon at 22:13 UT.
June 6: Moon near Jupiter (morning sky) at 4h UT. Mag. -2.3.
June 7: Mars 0.8° NNE from Regulus (74° from Sun, evening sky) at 6h UT. Mags. +1.2 and +1.3.
June [...]
Milton Humason
Milton Humason was born in Dodge Center, Minnesota in 1891. When he was 14 years old, his parents sent him to a summer camp on Mount Wilson, near Los Angeles. The mountain’s forests and soaring views of southern California stole the heart of the prairie boy. He convinced his parents to let [...]
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to some moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to experience the intervening period.This is a [...]
The sun is one of over 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 25,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, and it revolves around the galactic center once about every 250 million years.
As a part of their Monthly study sessions,AASTRO Wayanad will take up the topic “The sun” [...]
Jupiter has lost one of its prominent stripes, leaving its southern half looking unusually blank. Scientists are not sure what triggered the disappearance of the band.Jupiter’s appearance is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere – one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.But recent images taken by amateur astronomers [...]
False colour image of the central region of a galaxy group in X-rays. The jet of matter blown out of the central black hole can be clearly identified by its radio luminosity (overlaid, purple-blue). (Credit: Max Planck Institute)
Supermassive black holes with the mass of many millions of stars have been detected at the [...]
British physicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.
Hawking claims in a new documentary titled “Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking” that intelligent alien life forms almost certainly exist — but warns that communicating with them could be “too risky.”
“We only [...]
AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram Chapter will have a meet on Thursday,13th may at Kerala State Science & Technology Museum and Priyadarshini Planetarium,PMG junction.AASTRO President Prof.K.Pappootty will preside the meeting and Planetarium director Shri.Arun Jerald Prakash and other eminent personalities will make their presence.upcoming and ongoing activities and programmes will be reviewed and plans for school & college activities will be shaped [...]
AASTRO Kerala Thrissur chapter inaugurated yesterday here by by Prof K Pappootty CMS Higher Secondary School, Thrissur on a function presided by eminent amateur astronomer and AASTRO Thrissur Chapter Chairman Shri.P R Chandramohan.District coordinator Shri.K S Sudheer gave the welcome address and Shri.Venugopalan delivered vote of thanks.Astronomy and science popularisation activists ,teachers,students and public from various parts of [...]
