The relationship between the earth and the Moon (09/01/2010)
(...) We said earlier that, from many locations, our sky is spoiled. The fact is that, these days, fewer and fewer of us can see anything like the three thousand or so stars that should be visible to the naked eye on a clear evening. Ten thousand years ago, the night sky was not lit up with the light pollution of so many sources of artificial illumination. (...)

The celestial coordinate system can be confusing (09/01/2010)
(...) On the celestial sphere, declination (dec) corresponds to latitude and measures the angular distance above or below the celestial equator. While earthbound latitude is expressed in degrees north or south of the equator (Philadelphia, for instance, is 40 degrees north), celestial declination is expressed in degrees (above) or – (below) the celestial equator. The star Betelgeuse, for example, is at a declination of 7 degrees, 24 minutes. (...)

How do the constellations look like (09/01/2010)
(...) Now, from our perspective on Earth, two stars may appear to be separated by the width of a finger held at arm’s length when they're actually many trillions of miles distant from each other. You could try to fix the measurement between two stars with a ruler, but where would you hold the measuring stick? Put the ruler close to your eye, and two stars can be a quarter-inch apart. Put it at arm’s length, and the distance between those same two stars may have grown to several inches. (...)

Fall constellations: Pegasus and Orion (09/01/2010)
(...) Look to the Great Square’s northeast corner for the star Alpheratz, which is not part of Pegasus, but part of Andromeda, the Maiden in Chains. If you trace a line from Alpheratz through Markab, continuing about 40 degrees southwest of Markab, you’ll find the zodiacal constellation Capricornus, Capricorn, or the Sea Goat. Capricorn is distinguished by its brightest star, the brilliant Deneb Algiedi. (...)

Ancient Chinese Astronomy: a dragon eats the Sun (09/01/2010)
(...) So, in the middle of an eclipse, people would gather to shout, strike gongs, and generally make as much noise as possible the more noise the better, since the beast was very big and was certainly very far away. Eventually the noise appeared to always scare off the dragon. Because it was important to assemble as many people to make as much noise as possible, it was of inestimable value to get advance warning of an eclipse. (...)

Exploring the Night Sky with Telescopes (09/01/2010)
(...) So our first piece of advice will be patient: Don’t run out to a sale at your local Mega-Lo-Mart and buy a telescope just yet. Do I Really Need a Telescope? Few experiences with the night sky are more instantly rewarding than your first look at the moon, a nebula, or a planet through a telescope. Saturn, in particular, can look almost too perfect. (...)

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin and Sputnik (09/01/2010)
(...) Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was a lonely Russian boy, almost totally deaf, who grew up in retreat with his articles. He became a provincial schoolteacher, but his consuming interest was flight, and he built a wind tunnel to test various aircraft designs. Soon he became even more fascinated by the thought of space travel, producing the first serious theoretical articles on the subject during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (...)

About Asteroids (08/21/2010)
(...) As opposed to a moon, globe or star, the odds that an asteroid could hit the earth are entirely reasonable and in basic fact, there are numerous documented situations of modest asteroids producing it by implies of our atmosphere and leaving some very amazing craters inside earths surface.Well-liked culture has happily embraced the believed of an asteroid effect. The concept has spawned numerous a technology fiction story adding the thought that alien existence types might ride asteroids to our globe and begin a war on the worlds situation. (...)

Comets, The guests From Beyond. (08/21/2010)
(...) Much less is known about comets. As a rule, comets are considerably larger than asteroids. The composition of a comet is a mixture of nebulous, gasses, ice, dust and room debris. (...)

Our Neighbors in the Universe (08/21/2010)
(...) In 2006, there was quite a bit of controversy as scholars and astronomers agreed to downgrade Pluto and remove its status like a planet. So you need to wonder, the facts that makes something a planet and what happened to Pluto? It didnt just go away so it must nevertheless be out there. A planet, by scientific definition is any object in orbit close to a sun, that has formed into some type of round object is really a planet so long as it has cleared away any other orbiting items around it. (...)

Radio Astronomy (08/21/2010)
(...) Light, obviously, may be the physical phenomenon that empowers our ability to use our visual confirmation system, e.g. our eyes to appreciate something, in this instance the stars. (...)

Space, The Last Frontier (08/21/2010)
(...) But conquering the final frontier of space signifies over just seeing much more planets and stars and building the biggest telescope we can. There are some mind blowing principles about how area works that we've ahead of us to conquer. The big bang as well as the expanding universe alone was adequate to set your thoughts to spinning. (...)

Numerology (03/02/2010)
(...) The compatibility between 'Birth Number' and 'Name Number' is analyzed. There are different systems of Numerology and the most popular one is popularized by Cheiro. In this system, the numbers assigned to the letters of the alphabet are: A,I,J,Q,Y=1; B,K,R=2; C,G,L,S=3; D,M,T=4; E,H,N,X=5; U,V,W=6; O,Z=7 F,P=8. (...)

Four Laws of the Universe (08/24/2009)
(...) We develop the habit of creating excellence. Drill for skill works negatively as well. If we rerun bitterness, resentment, antagonism, we make habits of them. (...)

The Healing Properties of Tigers Eye Crystal (02/03/2009)
(...) These are all qualities that are needed in life to give individuals the happy, healthy life. Places such as Africa use the Tiger's Eye stone to ward off what's known as black magic. This is the mixture of evil spirits, evil doing, negative influences, and bad travel vibes. (...)

Entering the Fourth Dimension (09/19/2008)
(...) This third dimension was also there all the time; it just hadn’t been noticed yet. Nigel Calder writes, “…from the dust and water of the earth, natural forces conjured a mental system capable of asking why it exists.” Now some of us are getting a glimpse of what it is like to live in all four dimensions. (...)

Office Plants: The Ultimate Office Fighting Machines (04/26/2008)
(...) The modern energy efficient buildings we now live and work in have provided VOCs with the perfect territory in which to reign. With much of our time now being spent indoors, many of us in windowless offices, the distinct lack of fresh air has also led to other physical and psychological ailments that have been enhanced further by the toxic VOCs. Our productivity, creativity and general mood are depressed in these ultra efficient conditions, where the only thing that is ultra efficient are the machines and equipment that support the VOCs. (...)

Different Types of Planets (02/06/2008)
(...) Rahu and Ketu are always’Vakri’.A ‘Margi’ planet achieves its aim and destination, whereas a ‘Vakri’.planet is deprived of its destination. (...)