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A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, the Moon is always full during a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes. The most recent total lunar eclipse was on 3 and 4 March 2007. The next one will occur on 28 August 2007.

The pictures below are of the recent lunar eclipse.

Stages of a lunar eclipse.

view of an eclipse of the moon over a cruise ship

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Lunar eclipse.

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Photos From NASA

February 9th 2007 04:07

As you can imagine NASA has an enormous collection of amazing pictures.
Below is a selection of gorgeous high resolution photographs of the universe from NASA! This gallery is absolutely beautiful and you can see some more pictures here.

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Saturn V Rocket

January 30th 2007 07:15

The Saturn V (pronounced 'Saturn Five', popularly known as the Moon Rocket) was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs.

The largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, the Saturn V remains the most powerful launch vehicle ever brought to operational status, from a height, weight and payload standpoint.

In all, NASA launched thirteen Saturn V rockets between 1967 and 1973, with no loss of payload. The design payload was the manned Apollo spacecraft used by NASA for moon landings, and the Saturn V went on to launch the Skylab space station.

Some photos of the Saturn V rocket are below, see some more pictures here.

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Saturn V.

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McNaught Comet

January 26th 2007 05:26

Comet McNaught, also known as the Great Comet of 2007 is a non-periodic comet discovered on August 7, 2006 by British-Australian astronomer Robert H. McNaught. It made perihelion (closest point to the sun) on January 12, 2007, and became easily visible to the naked eye for observers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Below are some photos taken of the comet.

The comet remains visible to Southern Hemisphere observers in both the morning and evening sky, entering the constellation Microscopium on 18 January and is forecast to fade rapidly and drop below 6th magnitude by 9 February. As of today the comet is clearly visible to southern observers in the western sky after sunset, near to the horizon, and left of Venus. It is so bright that its tail can be easily seen in twilight even from light-polluted urban locations in the Southern Hemisphere.

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

**This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Comet McNaught.

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The Moon

January 20th 2007 07:40

Here are some beautiful pictures of the Moon in various stages/ phases and colour tones, see some more here.

Moon with Jet Airplane - Different Phases

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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UFO Pictures

September 29th 2006 02:48

Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but reports of UFO sightings only became fashionable after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting in 1947. Many thousands of such claimed observations have since been reported worldwide.

Before the terms “flying saucer” and “UFO” were coined, there were a number of reports of strange, unidentified aerial phenomena. These reports date from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. They include

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Mars

September 28th 2006 05:42

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our solar system and is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. Mars is also known as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance when seen from Earth. The prefix areo-, from the Greek god of war, Ares, refers to Mars in the same way geo- refers to Earth.

View of Mars from Hubble Space Telescope on June 26, 2001.

Of all the planets in our solar system other than Earth, Mars is the most likely to harbour liquid water, and perhaps life. Its rotational period and seasonal cycles are also similar to those of the Earth. It has the highest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons (3 times higher than Everest), the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris (8km deep), and polar ice caps.

Size comparison of terrestrial planets (left to right): Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

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Pluto

September 5th 2006 01:51

Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an astronomer who was working on a project searching for a ninth planet at Lowell Observatory. He took pictures of the celestial sky in pairs, one to two weeks apart, then looked for objects that had moved. On February 18, 1930, Tombaugh discovered a possible moving object on photographic plates taken on January 23 and January 29. After the observatory worked to obtain further confirmatory photographs, news of the discovery was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory on March 13, 1930.

Discovery photographs of Pluto.

The reason for the search for a ninth planet was observations of Neptune in the late 19th century had astronomers starting to speculate that Neptune's orbit was being disturbed by another planet in a similar manner that Neptune was disturbing Uranus

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Moons of Mars

August 31st 2006 03:47

Mars has two tiny natural moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are thought to be captured asteroids.
Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, and are named after the characters Phobos (panic/fear) and Deimos (terror/dread) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle. Ares was known as Mars to the Romans. Phobos is the largest with a diameter of 22.2 km with Deimos 12.6 km (The diameter of Mars is 227,936,637 km).

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Saturn V

August 16th 2006 03:46

The Saturn V (popularly known as the Moon Rocket) was a multistage liquid-fuel expendable rocket used by NASA's Apollo and Skylab programs.

It was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama

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Photos from Space

August 9th 2006 05:52

Here are some more photos taken from space of our beautiful planet. It never ceases to amaze what you can see.

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Planets of the Solar System in Perspective

July 19th 2006 03:50

I was listening to a "Captain Obvious" segment on the radio where people ring up with self-evident statements they have seen or heard, such as a chainsaw with a "Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands" warning sticker on it. Then somebody rang up who had found a diagram of the solar system with "Diagram not to scale" written on it. I was thinking, that's not actually a Captain Obvious" because it you had a diagram of the Solar System with the Sun at say, the size of a tennis ball, then the Earth would be the size of a grain of sand and would be about 10 metres away. That is if you were drawing it to scale, which a lot of people wouldn't realise. So the idea of the images below is to help everyone put the size of the planets in our Solar System into a little perspective. I hope you find them as interesting as I did. The images below are to scale.

The smaller planets compared to the Earth

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Satellite Pictures of the Earth at Night

July 17th 2006 01:48

We've seen how beautiful the earth looks from space during the day, but it's equally as beautiful at night. Below are pictures of different continents taken when the sun was on the other side of the world.

Earth at night - satellite picture - North America

North Pole/North America

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Earthrise

June 29th 2006 00:40

This is the first photograph of an Earthrise taken by humans. It was photographed by the Apollo 8 crew on 24th December 1968.
Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth orbit and to orbit around the Moon.
After launching on December 21, 1968, the crew took three days to travel to the Moon, which they orbited for 20 hours. While in lunar orbit they made a Christmas Eve television broadcast in which the crew read from the book of Genesis. It had been the most watched broadcast to date.
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