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• Alignment of Planets and Stars: Eclipses

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• Mars (Exploring the Solar System)

  Part of a series which takes the reader on an imaginary journey through the solar system. Each title covers: the position of the planet in the solar system; the planet’s origin, composition and geology; and biographical information on the key people connected to the discovery of the planet. Related posts Martian Genesis: The Extraterrestrial Origins [...]

• Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962

  The late 1950s and early ’60s were the golden age of science fiction, an era when the farthest reaches of imagination were fed by the technological breakthroughs of the postwar years. While science fiction writers expressed the dreams and nightmares of the era in pulp print, real-life rocket engineers worked on making space travel reality. [...]

• Unsolved mysteries of the Universe since the Big bang

  Why did Galileo invent the first telescope capable of being used for astronomy even after the first general telescope invention by Hans Lippershy? Why did US send man to moon even after the Russia had sent one? All these happened due to the enthusiasm of man to know what’s happening actually in the space around [...]

• Common Space Acronyms in Astronomy and Aeronautics

  As terminology” Space” is used in multiple ways. Space can be the vacuum surrounding the earth, in a room, at some location, in a document, and even in abstract sense like breathing space in a speech delivered. In commercial terms also one usually comes across concepts of space economy and space utilization. However in the [...]