‘Special Report’ Articles
Written by zelda on 06 September 2010
Share If we’re lucky for clear skies, September nights in the Southern hemisphere would give us the sky objects which mostly lie in and near Sagittarius over head. Take a look at the following Messier objects you can find with your telescope. M24 (The MIlky Way Patch), M8 (The Lagoon nebula), M20 (The Trifid nebula), [Read more]
Written by zelda on 31 August 2010
Share Galaxy cluster Abell 1758 located about 3.2 billion light years from Earth shows the huge radio halos as effects of a collision between two smaller galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe that are bound together by gravity. They form when smaller clusters or groups of galaxies collide and [Read more]
Written by zelda on 30 August 2010
Share An artist’s illustration of Kepler 9 and its orbiting planets Scientists announced Thursday, August 26, the discovery of at least two planets orbiting Kepler 9 and were named Kepler-9b and Kepler-9c. They also have identified a possibly third, with a super-Earth-sized planet about 1.5 times the radius of Earth in 1.6 [Read more]
Written by julie on 25 August 2010
Share If it is possible, Adolf Hitler,a German dictator and Nazi leader would turn in his grave if he was informed that his ancestors were Jewish and African. A new DNA tests reveals such amazing information. The tests were performed on saliva samples taken from 39 of Hitler’s relatives. The said samples were [Read more]
Written by julie on 13 August 2010
Share As summer ends, children are all getting ready to return to school, however for the next several days the sky will put on a show of brilliant group of shooting stars as this year’s Perseid meteor shower will peak on August 12th and August 13th. The sky will surely be one of nature’s most [Read more]
Written by she on 28 July 2010
Share In Los Angeles California, commercial painter Rick Norsigian learned that photos he bought at a garage sale in year 2000 for $45 dollars now worths more than $200 million. Norsigian kept the two boxes he bought at a garage sale under his pool table for four years before realizing that it may be [Read more]
Written by she on 22 July 2010
Share Comparison of a 0.1 solar red dwarf, a Sun-like star, a blue dwarf, and the newly discovered R136a1 Using a combination of new observations on the Very Large Telescope in Chile and data previously gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope, a star having a mass about 265 times that of the Sun was seen by [Read more]
Written by she on 19 July 2010
Share A recent study shows that Papaya leaves can help patients with dengue to fully recover from the fever. In a research conducted on 70 dengue patients by Dr. Sanath Hettige, juice extracted from papaya leave shows that the white blood cells and platelets of the patients increased, the blood clotting normalized and [Read more]
Written by julie on 16 July 2010
Share UFO sightings in China was clearly an object or aircraft with military affairs. Share [Read more]
Written by julie on 15 July 2010
Share Talks about the UFO Over Chinese Airport are spreading. The said sighting was seen in Hangzhou last week on 7th July 2010 which made an enormous stir prompting the authorities to halt all the airport operations. Aviation authorities did not waste time to seal all the operations by distracting inbound flights to WuXi [Read more]