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Wonderful Titan
Titan Wonderful Scenes
Titan is the wonderful moon of Saturn that could be a planet by its own right. NASA – ESA Cassini probe and Huygens lander have captured amazing images of the satellite that has an atmosphere thicker than Earth’s.
NASA – esa released the next video of Saturn’s moon composed of images from Cassini on approach to Saturn’s moon and Huygens descent to the surface. Huygens made the amazing landing January 2005.
JPL – Titan Scenes
The mission directed by NASA – esa [Italian Space Agency] has gathered a massive amount of data about wonderful Titan, the following graphic highlights some of the mission achievements.
Highlighted Facts, NASA/JPL-Caltech
Source: NASA – ESA – JPL
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Planet X May Be Out There After All
Planet X May Be Out There After All
Planet X has made it to the headlines again. Planet X is the assumed massive planet that may be the cause of perturbations in the orbits of outer [dwarf] planets like Sedna.
Space news websites such as Space dot com are now publishing this research by Carlos De La Fuente Marcos and Raúl De La Fuente Marcos.
The problem is that this research paper was submitted last June 2014 by the two astronomers from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Here’s a snapshot of the research paper.
Planet X Research | Extreme TNOs – De La Fuente & De La Fuente, June 2014
The following screen capture from The Cornell University Library shows that the research was submitted back in June 3, 2014 by Raúl De La Fuente Marcos. Here’s the link: http://www.arxiv.org/abs/1406.0715
Extreme TNOs Screen Capture, Raúl De La Fuente
The De La Fuente researchers think there may be at least two massive planets that would explain the presence of Sedna-like objects in the outer Solar System. Their paper was presented a few months after the discovery of probable dwarf planet 2012 VP113 by Sheppard and Trujillo in March of 2014.
Despite the “omission” of main news media and space news websites, other websites did publish about the topic immediately after the De La Fuentes presented their paper in June 2014. New Scientist article dated June 11, 2014 talks about De La Fuente & De La Fuente massive planet theory [Planet X].
New Scientist published the news June 11, 2014 on their website
Rediscovered Astronomy will publish a more extensive article to show the research to look for a massive planet has been there all the time. The search for a Planet X hasn’t been “revived” [as some space news websites say], it has been there for many decades. [Rediscovered Astronomy worked on some models for Celestia last October 2014.]
January 2015
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Dawn Makes It To Ceres
Dawn Makes It To Ceres
NASA’s probe dawn approach to Ceres is happening now. The JPL NASA team is directing the Dawn space probe to the asteroid belt [dwarf] planet Ceres. JPL released the following picture Dawn took at 383, 000 km as the probe gets close to Ceres.
Ceres, JPL – NASA
The JPL team said they expect to place the space probe into Ceres orbit around March 6, 2015.
Ceres is in orbit around the sun at the asteoid belt. Dawn is the first space probe launched to study Ceres.
The following animated GIF image shows the rotation of Ceres.
Dawn approach to Ceres – animated, JPL – NASA
Ceres, A Game Changer – Video
Source: JPL – NASA
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Landing Rosetta’s Philae More Challenging Than Thought
Rosetta’s Philae Landing Module
European Space Agency – Jet Propulsion Laboratory joined mission to land Rosetta’s landing module Philae on comet 67P will prove to be a more challenging task than previously thought. The undertaking will be more complex than landing on a planet or even on an asteroid. The tentative date for the landing of Rosetta’s Philae is this November 12, 2014.
Video Landing Rosetta’s Philae How-to – NASA/ESA
Ambition -Science Fiction Film- ESA/Platige Image
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Tragedy Strikes Virgin Galactic
Tragedy Strikes Virgin Galactic
Virgin crashes its Space Ship Two
A failed sub-orbital flight of a Virgin Galactic spacecraft left one pilot dead and one injured. The spacecraft, Space Ship Two, had detached from its carrier plane White Knight which landed safely. Space Ship Two was supposed to achieve sub-orbital flight but the spacecraft experienced anomalies that caused it to crash land. Virgin Galactic had had previous flights of Space Ship Two with no major incidents. But today’s was a tragic one and it is very sad news for the space community.
Tragedy Strikes Virgin Galactic – Space Ship Two Crash Lands | CNN
Virgin crashes its Space Ship Two
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Comet ISON Approach To Mars
Comet ISON Approach To Mars
c/2012 S1 ISON Approach To Mars
Comet ISON is racing towards the inner solar system. This is the comet astronomers had said back in 2012 it would become “brighter than the moon”. October 1, 2013 is when ISON begins its close approach to Mars and from there to Earth on its first approach to our planet.
We will see how the tail of the comet behaves if ISON survives its approach to SOL around November 27, 2013.
For now, Mars and ISON appear towards the East early morning, that is, provided you have enough zooming power to get a glance of it.
The following Celestia animation shows ISON’s approach to Mars. We are looking at both bodies at a distance of ~.40 AU.
Comet c/2012 S1 Approach to Mars / Celestia Animation by Rediscovered Astronomy
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Space View from ALMA
Space View from ALMA
ALMA – The Atacama Large Millimeter Array is operational and according to ESO releases its “first” image.
Good to know government space agencies and astronomers well…. keep shedding light on what’s going on in galaxies far, far away…
As for me… I have to see what’s going on in my own solar backyard… see you… I mean array you…
Watch it on ESO video cast
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Voyagers and the Heliosphere
Voyagers and the Heliosphere
It turns out the space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 will be operational to leave the heliosphere. All this time they have been operated by scientists of NASA’s JPL Lab in Pasadena, California. Well, I hope too that all this time these people from NASA have taken the opportunity to use the probes to look at the “something” they say lurks in the Kuiper belt that is distrubing the comets and may still have influence over the orbits of outer planetoids [ironically named dwarf planets], mainly Sedna and Eris.