moon-star Seen from the Earth, the surface of the Moon appears bright with distinct, darker areas. The bright regions form a rugged terrain, heavily marked with circular meteorite impact craters known as the lunar highlands. We now know that the highlands are made of rocks called anorthosite and polymict... [Read More]

Galaxy-3D-Space-Tour Gaze upwards on a dark night, and you will see the ‘Milky Way’, a glowing ribbon made up of many individual stars. This is our first clue to the fact that that stars are not uniformly distributed throughout space, but clustered together to form galaxies. Galaxies can... [Read More]

x-37b-space The X-37B, an unmanned U.S. Air Force space plane whose mystery mission set off a round of speculation over the spring and summer, returned to Earth early this morning after its maiden flight lasted 220 days in orbit. The space plane landed at 1:16 a.m. PT today at Vandenberg Air Force Base... [Read More]

ozen The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere, encircling the Earth, that has large amounts of ozone in it. The layer shields the entire Earth from much of the harmful ultraviolet radiation that comes from the sun. Interestingly, it is also this ultraviolet radiation that forms the ozone... [Read More]

While almost everyone knows about the tsunami, that refers to destructive waves of the sea, the news of solar tsunami heading towards Earth has left the world jittery of the relatively new and unknown phenomenon. solar_tsunami6 It has suddenly grabbed the attention of the inhabitants of the third planet... [Read More]

galaxy The Milky Way galaxy is the spiral galaxy we call home, as do roughly 100 billion other stars Our Milky Way Gets a Makeover map,stars,galaxy,milky way,milkyway,globular,nearest galaxy,sagittarius dwarf,spiral arms,sagittarius galaxy GALAXY On a clear, moonless night, one can often see a hazy,... [Read More]

milky-way-3 Near-lnfrared Image of the Milky Way This image of our galaxy, the Milky Way, was taken with NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)’s Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE), one of three COBE scientific instruments. This never-before-seen view is a combination of data... [Read More]

neptune-planet Neptune is the outermost planet of the gas giants. It has an equatorial diameter of 49,500 kilometers (30,760 miles). If Neptune were hollow, it could contain nearly 60 Earths. Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years. It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager. A day on Neptune... [Read More]

uranus It was discovered by William Herschel in 1781. It has an equatorial diameter of 51,800 kilometers (32,190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84.01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2.87 billion kilometers (1.78 billion miles). It rotates about its axis once every 17 hours... [Read More]

saturnopposition Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and is the second largest in the solar system with an equatorial diameter of 119,300 kilometers (74,130 miles). Much of what is known about the planet is due to the Voyager explorations in 1980-81. Saturn is visibly flattened at the poles, a result... [Read More]

Jupiter-wide jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest planet in the solar system. If Jupiter were hollow, more than one thousand Earths could fit inside. It also contains two and a half times the mass of all the other planets combined. It has a mass of 1.9 x 1027 kg and is 142,800... [Read More]

mars Before space exploration, Mars was considered the best candidate for harboring extraterrestrial life. Astronomers thought they saw straight lines crisscrossing its surface. This led to the popular belief that irrigation canals on the planet had been constructed by intelligent beings. In 1938, when... [Read More]

unlock-i-phone The iPhone Dev Team has released the updated version of the unlocking tool called Ultrasn0w carrier that can unlock the latest IOS 4.2.1 and 4.1 firmware for iPhone 3G and 3G bands base by 13 / 05/2004. Since the iPhone baseband has 4 different OS, it takes a little longer to Dev Team... [Read More]

ipad-facetime The Chinese-based Economy Daily News has reported over the weekend that Apple will add five new features to its second generation of iPad. Citing unnamed industry sources, the paper says video phone, better mobility, USB port, new display technology and three-axis gyroscopes are the new... [Read More]

Earth from moon From the perspective we get on Earth, our planet appears to be big and sturdy with an endless ocean of air. From space, astronauts often get the impression that the Earth is small with a thin, fragile layer of atmosphere. For a space traveler, the distinguishing Earth features are the... [Read More]

venus Venus, the jewel of the sky, was once know by ancient astronomers as the morning star and evening star. Early astronomers once thought Venus to be two separate bodies. Venus, which is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, is veiled by thick swirling cloud cover. Astronomers refer... [Read More]

Crescent-Mercury If an explorer were to step onto the surface of Mercury, he would discover a world resembling lunar terrain. Mercury’s rolling, dust-covered hills have been eroded from the constant bombardment of meteorites. Fault-cliffs rise for several kilometers in height and extend for hundreds... [Read More]

Sunrise The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the largest object and contains approximately 98% of the total solar system mass. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun’s disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. The Sun’s... [Read More]

iPhone_4G UnlockGuide new software can easily jailbreak and unlock Iphone 4/3G and 3Gs on iOS 4.2.1/4.1 using a simple vulnerability. iPhone 4 jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 is ready to unlock iPhone 4/3Gs and 3G  up to 05.13.04 baseband and over 500 iPhone models are now jailbroken and unlocked according... [Read More]

Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. It includes: the satellites of the planets; numerous comets, asteroids, and meteoroids; and the interplanetary medium. The Sun is the richest source of... [Read More]

19mark2 Calling it slow and informal, he said the e-mail usage has already declined and the modern world is out of e-mails.Click NEXT to read on… 19mark1 Zuckerberg said 500 million people using Facebook would have access to a a Facebook.com email address. He said entire conversation, dated... [Read More]

20slid1 Conventional air carriers may soon become a thing of the past, for now you can buy your very own jetpack and fly it too.The jetpack, labelled the ‘Segway of the sky’, costs 100,000 dollars (about Rs 45 lakh) and doesn’t require professional training or a pilot’s license.”We... [Read More]

nightshuttle Bathed in the warm amber glow of the launch-tower floodlights, the space shuttle Discovery slowly emerges from behind the retracting service structure. A passing lightning storm earlier in the evening postponed the final curtain call on the venerable space ship’s emergence but she now... [Read More]

04cards More and more people are turning to the Internet this Diwali to play traditional card games teen patti and rummy and pocket some fast cash too.The teen patti game on social network portal Ibibo is being played by thousands of users daily.”The biggest age group for ibibo Teen Patti is... [Read More]