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Space Travel & Exploration

How To Take Great Lunar Eclipse Photos of the Moon With Digital Camera

Last night there was a full lunar eclipse, where the Earth blocked the Sun’s rays of light from hitting the moon and I like many photographers around the world was awake trying to take photos of it. Many articles on the internet still give advice about how to take Lunar Eclipse photos with a film [...]

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Photo Gallery – Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Tidbinbilla

Earlier this week I visited NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) located at Tidbinbilla, 40min drive from Canberra in the Australian Capitol Territory (ACT). CDSCC’s radio telescopes provide continuous radio contact with spacecraft exploring the Solar System and beyond such as Cassini (Saturn), twin Exploration Rovers (Mars), Messenger spacecraft (Mercury), New Horizons spacecraft (Pluto) [...]

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NASA Voyager I and II Spacecraft: Our Boldest Explorers Ever

Space is our Final Frontier. NASA’s Voyager I and II missions were supposed to last just 5 years from 1972-1977 exploring the outer planets of our solar system and yet they are still powering over 30 years later, continuing to transmit data to Scientists on Earth as they pass through interstellar space, exploring and boldly [...]

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Crab Nebula – As Seen by Hubble Space Telescope – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a high resolution desktop wallpaper photo of “The Crab Nebula” as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains from the violent death of a star that may have been as much as 10 times more massive than our Sun.

In July/August of 1054, Chinese [...]

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Astronomy Makes Time Travel Possible

When scientists look at a faraway celestial object, they are seeing it as it existed millions and millions of years ago, because it takes so long for light from the object to reach Earth.

“Variable star V838 Monocerotis” credit: Hubble (NASA/ESA)

Today the world’s best telescopes can look back in time and see stars, galaxies and planets [...]

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Full Lunar Eclipse on 28th August 2007 – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of the Full lunar eclipse on 28th August 2007 as viewed from south-western Sydney, Australia
Download Instructions

Click on the preview photo
When the full size photo is displayed from the Picasa web album – click on Download Photo in the right-hand side menu and Save

Full Lunar Eclipse on 28th [...]

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