Although we may have been disappointed by the amount of clouds in the sky that so rudely interrupted our star party, others were not. Astronomers have estimated about 200+ meteors per hour in the right conditions! The meteor shower peaks on the mornings of December 13 and 14 (early morning...about 3 or 4 am), and if you are lucky enough to be checking out the sky at that time, then you would have seen a great show! Because of the phase of the moon, the sky was very dark, allowing for more meteors to be shown! Below are some pictures taken from spaceweather.com of the Geminids...enjoy!
WISE update
On Monday, December 14, the WISE spacecraft will be launching from a NASA base in California. It is scheduled to launch a little after 9:00am (9:09am with a 14 minute window) on Monday morning, so we will look out for that. Maybe we can watch the launch in class! Remember that WISE is using infrared rays to scan the universe. We will see what may come of that!
Colliding Galaxies
I found a picture on NASA's website of colliding galaxies that I thought you might like to see.
Below is a photo taken from NASA's website (www.nasa.gov)
Hubble Does it Again!
The Hubble Space Telescope still continues to amaze us with its beautiful, amazing images! Hubble has recently taken a picture of the deepest part of the universe yet! Below is the image...all of those tiny dots are galaxies! Even the ones that look like a speck of dust on your computer screen! This image was taken from Yahoo! News (www.news.yahoo.com)
OK, well that is all for now. I hope you all have a wonderful and safe break and a blessed Christmas! See you in school!
Astronomy club- sorry that we had cloudy skies! :( We will reschedule, I promise!
Keep an eye to the sky,
Ms. Trotta
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