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AstroAviator » Space http://astroaviator.com From Aviation to Space Exploration, it's all in it... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:17:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Infrared Image of Galactic Center http://astroaviator.com/2011/10/09/infrared-image-of-galactic-center/ http://astroaviator.com/2011/10/09/infrared-image-of-galactic-center/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:56:27 +0000 Assad http://astroaviator.com/2011/10/09/infrared-image-of-galactic-center/ hub

This is the image taken by the on board sensors of Hubble Space Telescope called Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) and is the sharpest image of the Galactic Center of Milky Way ever taken. The image revealed the great quantity of stars distributed through out the region and formation of star which the visible light prevents from seeing with normal telescope, therefore infrared penetrates deep into the core of the galaxy. Related posts:

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Another meteor shower is coming in this month and will be streaking out from the constellation Draco. The showers are expected to happen on 8th of October and the expected rate is nearly hundreds per hour but due to the full moon the light may interfere the observation of these shooting stars. Related posts:

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Team at Cape Canaveral said on Wednesday that they have finished finalizing Curiosity for it’s launch in November. The team for five years planned how to launch the first nuclear powered robot to Mars and how to handle the radioactive material in case of failure during launch. Related posts:

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After re analyzing the old archives of Hubble, astronomers find something fishy which later on turned out that they have discovered extrasolar planets which they could not locate before. These planets orbit a young star called HR 8799 which is 130 light years away from us. Related posts:

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After lift off on 5th August 2011, spacecraft Juno travelled almost 6 million miles when it took the image of Earth and the Moon while on its way to Jupiter. The image was captured by on board camera called JunoCam on 26th August 2011 and it was part of one of various tests conducted by Juno after it’s launch to see the spacecrafts progress. Related posts:

]]> http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/31/juno-captures-earth-and-the-moon/feed/ 0 Pakistan PAKSAT R1 Satellite Launch http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/21/pakistan-paksat-r1-satellite-launch/ http://astroaviator.com/2011/08/21/pakistan-paksat-r1-satellite-launch/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:23:56 +0000 Assad http://astroaviator.com/?p=2495 438px-The_Launch_of_Long_March_3B_Rocket

Here is a rare video of Pakistan satellite launched by the help of Chinese rocket. It is a geosynchronous communications satellite operated by Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission. It was launched on 11 August 2011 aboard a Long March 3B/E carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China's Sichuan province. It is expected to replace PAKSAT-1 in geostationary orbit at 38° East. Related posts:

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US space probe Dawn has finally approached the asteroid Vesta and now preparing for orbiting the rocky object. Dawn task is to orbit the asteroid situated in the asteroid belt for a year and then will advance to the so called dwarf planet Ceres for analysis but for now it will be analyzing Vesta. Vesta is termed as a deflated or a punctured football because of it shape and is 530km wide which was discovered in 1807 and is the fourth object to be discovered in the belt which is 188 million kilometers away from Earth. Related posts:

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After docking with the International Space Station (ISS), the crew on board ISS grabbed the module Raffaello from the Space Shuttle Atlantis and with the help of the robotic arm gradually lifted up and attached it to the module Harmony. Behind the stick astronauts Doug Hurley and Sandy Magnus managed to successfully install the new multipurpose module nearly at 6.46am EDT. The final Space Shuttle mission was to bring supplies and the multipurpose Raffaello module to ISS. Related posts:

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Space Shuttle Antlatis launched from Kennedy Space Station is the last ever space shuttle mission and therefore it brought many emotions to the people watching it lift off. Over a million people were gathered to watch the final moments of Atlantis launch as they would never see the shuttle fly again in their life. There [...] Related posts:

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No need to freak out but, you should know that an asteroid is going to pass close by the Earth on Wednesday and the size of the asteroid is that of a car. But no fear, the asteroid will not hit the earth or cause any massive damage Related posts:

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