December 6, 2011
The Kepler spacecraft was launched on March 7, 2009. Its 3.5 year mission was to discover Earth-like planets and yesterday, December 5th 2011, NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone”, the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. The newly confirmed planet, named “Kepler-22b”, is the smallest [...]
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December 4, 2011
The M45 is one of my favorite objects of the deep sky. So I decided to post here a fantastic photo of them, along with some technical aspects and excerpts of a couple Wikipedia articles with great info. In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters (Messier object 45), is an open star cluster containing middle-aged [...]
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