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Banning the Incandescent Bulbs

When I visited a hardware and electrical supply store here in my area, I still noticed incandescent bulbs being sold at the stores. The are sold in various wattage from 5 watts to 100 watts and above. But in Israel, the government is already banning the use of the incandescent bulbs from 60 watts above. [...]

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January 2012 Meteor Shower

You can still observe, as reported, the meteor shower at dawn from 3AM to 5AM and it is estimated to generate 100 falling stars every hour. It’s peak will occur on the January 4 but it is said to start showering on January 1 up to January 7. The meteor shower is called by astronomers as “Quads” [...]

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Tyche, The Ninth and Largest Missing Planet

When I was in grade school, I learned that Pluto is the ninth planet in the Solar System and it’s the smallest of all the nine planets. But this information was changed when the planet Pluto was demoted from its being planet to just an asteroid member of the kuiper belt and its name is [...]

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The End of the Earth by Impact with “Apophis” Asteroid in 2036

In 2009, scientists were talking about the possible impact of  Apophis to earth. And according to NASA there’s only two percent possibility of impact. The Russian scientist of the St. Petersburg State University, Professor Leonid Socolov, however, contradicted the NASA’s statement, saying that the asteroid that has a size of two football field will likely [...]

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Nuclear Radiation

Nuclear Radiation is the energy emitted during the process that occurred in the atom’s nuclei. This process is called ionization and the nuclear radiation is also called ionizing radiation. There are several types of ionizing radiation. Few of these are Alpha Particles, Beta Particles, Gamma Ray, Cosmic Ray and Neutrons. The processes that produce nuclear [...]

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Sun’s Plasma Might Affect Earth

The xray photo of sun as shown by the image below was taken by NASA last April capturing two huge explosion on the sun.

Two similar but larger sun activities were spotted by NASA last Sunday across the surface of the sun throwing the supercharged cloud called plasma into the space towards the direction of the earth. The sun’s plasma according to the estimates made by scientists will reach the earth atmosphere today, Tuesday which will be seen like a neon show on the skies. Satellite and communication facilities might be affected by this.

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Photos, Lunar Eclipse – March 2007

I took 2 hours looking for the photos of the moon taken during the Lunar Eclipse last Saturday night. It happened because I forgot that these photos might be uploaded at the Flickr servers. And finally got it at Flickr and one of the photos is the one shown below: This is one of the [...]

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Missed The Lunar Eclipse Last Night

I went home yesterday from my blogging job through the internet cafe in Maasin City at around 9:00PM. While riding my Yamaha Cripton Z motorcycle (for an hour), I was observing the moon behind me because according to the report there would be a total lunar eclipse on that night. But I found nothing. Today, [...]

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Zero Gravity Experience

I am wondering if I can experience walking in a zero gravity ground. Our science class told me that the zero gravity can be experienced when a tube or an airplane is in high speed free fall. There were times that I dreamed I was in the outer space floating like a balloon, or playing [...]

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Space Weather?

It’s might be your first time to hear that there is a weather on the outer space. What is it? How does it happen? Is there storm in space? Is the earth affected by the space weather? Why are we concern of the space weather? All these questions will be answered, just visit here.

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