Category Archives: Astronomy

Natural Disaster Watch

We offer links to disaster information and have a large archive of astronomy articles for our readers. There is a quick over view of a disaster map in the video listed below: Watch this quick video for more information: //

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Lunar Exploration Will Continue With India’s Chandrayaan-2 Mission

The exploration of our own moon will continue with an ambitious mission called Chandrayaan-2, a collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organization and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. The mission, which will be launched in 2012 or 2013, will … Continue reading

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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory: Still the Greatest

This time we’re going to look back at one of NASA’s most spectacular successes: the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Launched by the space shuttle on July 23, 1999, Chandra has now far exceeded its originally projected lifetime, and still holds the … Continue reading

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NASA’s Juno Probe Will Tell Us New Things About Jupiter

Last month, NASA issued a statement saying that preparations for its Juno mission to Jupiter are proceeding well, and that everything is still on schedule for a launch in August of next year.  This will be just one part of … Continue reading

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LISA: First of a New Generation of Space-Based Telescopes

In this article, we’ll take a look at gravity waves, one of the most fascinating and revolutionary ideas in astronomy.  Specifically, we will talk about the LISA mission, a future project which will be a collaboration between NASA and the … Continue reading

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