Astro Aviator - Part 6

The Supernova

by Assad

While searching the skies for black holes using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust. In this artist’s rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust — which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago — obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way.

Kepler Detects First Earth Like PLanet

by Assad

Recently NASA’s space probe Kepler has confirmed the sighting of an exo planet far beyond our solar system. It’s the first ever planet to be found by Kepler and the first small planet studied far beyond our solar system and is named Kepler-10b which is 1.4 times the size of the Earth.

Man Falls Of An Aeroplane

by Assad

The residents of Al Faisal Colony, Lahore reported hearing a loud bang between 9:10 and 9:15pm on Thursday night at one of the houses on the street. The owner of the house, found a body on the roof which was in an extremely battered condition. There was a crack in the roof where the body had landed.

Chinese Stealth Plane J-20 makes its First Flight

by admin

Finally we have the pictures of the super secretive Chinese stealth plane J-20 making its way in to the skies of China. The Chinese stealth plan was a hoax until today when First few pictures of J-20 flying came out on the morning of 11,jan 2011. Its a giant leap for Chinese aviation industry. The [...]

Flight Diverted Due To Coffee Spill

by Assad

Many flights are diverted because of serious issues like bad weather technical faults or due to some on board medical situation. But this time a unique incident caused a flight to divert and that is due to COFFEE SPILL. Interesting but weird, the pilot of the aircraft spilled his coffee on to the plane’s communication’s equipment thus triggering on board emergency alarms.

WikiLeaks: Turkey Wanted to Send Astronaut in Space

by Assad

WikiLeaks released yet another chilling secret regarding Turkey. Wikileaks released a classified document in which according to U.S. State Department, Turkey instead of buying Boeing aircraft wanted to send a Turkish astronaut in space on board the Space Shuttle.

Spirits View

by Assad

This mosaic of images shows the soil in front of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after a series of short backward drives during attempts to extricate the rover from a sand trap in January and early February 2010. It is presented in false color to make some differences between materials easier to see. Bright-toned soil was freshly exposed by the rover’s left-front wheel during the drives and can be seen with a “sand wave” shaping that resulted from the unseen wheel’s action.

Man Made Black Hole

by Hassan

Well the name it self sounds mysterious. Black Hole, one of the greatest phenomena man has ever discovered and still the concepts of black hole are really not clear because we cannot observe them directly and also because of the incompatible concepts of general relativity and quantum mechanics are inescapably brought together by these objects.

Super Hercules in Afghanistan

by Assad

C-130 is one of the famous cargo aircraft which is still being manufactured with modern avionics and technology and being exported through out the world. Due to it’s extreme capabilities of load carrying and safty records many air forces through out the world are purchasing the aircraft. Built by the Lockheed Martin, the first C-130 [...]

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