The newest space telescopes by NASA have found almost 25,000 asteroids in just six months. These asteroids were never seen before and about 95 of these are very close to Earth only 48 million kilometers of earth. But NASA assures that this is not a range to cause any threat to Earth. These objects were [...]
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Virgin Galactic taking tourist to space
From next year onward Virgin Galactic (VG) is preparing to take tourists to space. The good news was announced by the VG on its site by giving its title “Mission Accomplished ” after the test of the spacecraft. The vacation will be one of its kind, promises excellent views and crowd less setting as the [...]
Jul
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2010 Warmest year worldwide since 1880
Sine record keeping started the temperature has slowly risen over the years but this year has set a record itself- it’s the warmest year recorded so far. This year has had the warmest average temperature for January-June on record 57.5 F (12.2 C).The fact was brought to light by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [...]
Jul
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2010
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A black hole blinded NASA telescope from five billion light years away.
The Swift telescope has been relentlessly searching for gamma-ray bursts since the past six years and got a glimpse of that again. Gamma-ray burst are ultra bright flashes in the sky that signal the birth of a black hole. Although the distance of his happening and the telescope was a massive five billion light years [...]
Jul
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Poly9 goes to Apple, shifted to Silicon Valley as rift widens between Apple and Google
A Quebec based mapping company has been bought by Apple. The company in question is Poly9 and it’ rumored that its entire staff has now been shifted to Apple’s Silicon Valley office. This acquisition is fourth by the company this year. The news was made public by the French-Canadian news site Cyberpresse. However it was [...]
Jul
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Turtle Eggs relocation begins transported to Kennedy Space Centre
Desperate attempts are on to save turtles nests along the Florida beach are on full swing. People are trying to remove turtle’s eggs that are present hidden in their nests buried in the sands of the Florida beach. There is a great threat posed to an entire generation of the turtles that are already very [...]
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ESA closes in on Lutetia this weekend
The European Space Agency is going to have about two hours to study the details of the asteroid Lutetia by capturing its images with its high resolution cameras on this weekend. These sophisticated cameras have already sent some details of the asteroid but its telescope has failed to determine the type of the asteroid. The [...]
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Sunday Solar eclipse and world cup final “Total Addiction”
The coming Sunday will bring along with it a feast for the astronomy enthusiasts. There will a total solar eclipse on July 11 over the South Pacific Ocean and the countries like Chile and Argentina. Only these few countries in the southern hemisphere will be fortunate enough to catch a glimpse of the complete vanishing [...]
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twitter brings us @earlybird offers
Twitter has enhanced its presence in the advertising world by an ‘early bird’ feed. The advertising platform by the micro-blogging site has been recently launched and this is the first major development in its new dimension of services. The feature will promote the deals from selected advertisers.
The feature will offer short term deals to the [...]