Tag Archives: NASA

Best ever map of the early universe revealed

Posted on March 24, 2006 by

Astronomy lovers and curious people must read this New Scientist article: Best ever map of the early universe revealed. On Thursday, the WMAP team revealed the best map ever drawn of microwaves from the early universe, showing variations in the … Continue reading →

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2005 Was Hot

Posted on January 25, 2006 by

I didn’t like of the news: 2005 was the warmest year on record. It doesn’t sound good to me. “Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases,” says James Hansen, who led the study. And the warming seen … Continue reading →

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Google Moon

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Bibi

One more very cool Google “toy”: Google Moon. In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we’ve added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to help you pay your own visit … Continue reading →

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Visible Earth

Posted on May 27, 2005 by Bibi

Visible Earth: a catalogue of NASA images and animations of our home planet. Amazing images with a very good resolution of countries, agriculture, atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, hydrosphere, land surface, cryosphere and more. BTW, here is the gallery of photos of … Continue reading →

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Cool Cosmos

Posted on March 5, 2005 by

Cool Cosmos! is a suite of websites made by NASA’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center and the SIRTF Science Center. They include cool facts about astronomy and science. Their infraread fetish can be seen on the Infraread Yellowstone Gallery, The … Continue reading →

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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Posted on November 29, 2004 by

I know just a few things about astronomy, but I love the images on Astronomy Picture of the Day. As the name says a new image every day. And something more: an explanation about the image and links with the … Continue reading →

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