Stalking Venus

NASA expert Rachel Osten, a Hubble Fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. says that this solar flare is “massive enough to deplete the atmospheres of any living planet, sterilizing their surfaces…

There’s a great little review over at the Universe Today website of the Celestron Skyscout ‘personal planetariam’. A gadget that can tell you all about the stars and other celestial objects you point it at.
From the review:
“Turn it on and GPS technology takes over. Within minutes, the Celestron Sky Scout had pinpointed my location on [...]

“The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.”

Great article on universetoday.com about the amount of shit that’s floating about in space around our planet. Also included are some great pictures that show the position of all traceable stuff up there.

Read the article here.