Leonid Meteor Shower 2009
on Nov 18, 2009 in event news Bagi Anda yang tidak sempat menyaksikan Leonid Meteor Shower kemarin, silakan saksikan beberapa video yang berkaitan berikut ini.The Leonid shower is made of bits of debris from the Tempel-Tuttle comet, which streaks through Earth's inner solar syste...

Black Dwarf
on Nov 12, 2009 in news materi A black dwarf is a white dwarf that has cooled down to the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, and so is invisible. A white dwarf is what remains of a main sequence star of low or medium mass (below approximately 9 to 10 solar masses), af...

Sun's Lithium Mistery
on Nov 11, 2009 in news For decades, astronomers have known our Sun contains a low amount of lithium, while other solar-like stars actually have more. But they didn't know why. By looking at stars similar to the Sun to study this anomaly, scientists have now discovered of a...

Soal-soal Latihan
on Oct 29, 2009 in soal Beberapa soal astronomi sebagai bahan latihan dan diskusi dengan teman2:If the Earth rotated in the opposite sense (clockwise rather than counterclockwise), how long would the solar day be?Suppose that the Earth’s pole was perpendicular to its orbi...

Astronomers Found The Most Distant Cosmic Object
on Oct 29, 2009 in news The redness of the afterglow is indicative of the event's distance Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasa's Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes.In the journal Natu...

James Webb Space Telescope
on Sep 3, 2009 in news materi The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a planned infrared space observatory, the partial successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope. The JWST will not be a complete successor, because it will not be sensitive to all of the light wavelengths that...

Astronomers Find Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole Yet
on Sep 2, 2009 in news Astronom dari Universitas Hawaii telah berhasil mengamati sebuah galaksi raksasa yang mengelilingi sebuah supermasif black hole terjauh. Galaksi tersebut berjarak 12,8 milyar tahun , nampak sebesar galaksi Bimasakti dan memiliki sebuah supermasif bla...

Mars, methane and mysteries
on Aug 18, 2009 in news Mars may not be as dormant as scientists once thought. The 2004 discovery of methane means that either there is life on Mars, or that volcanic activity continues to generate heat below the martian surface. ESA plans to find out which it is. Either ou...

Astronomer Found Planetary Nebula Around Heavy Stars
on Aug 16, 2009 in news Lead image caption: An optical image from the 0.6-m University of Michigan/CTIO Curtis Schmidt telescope of the brightest Radio Planetary Nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud, JD 04. The inset box shows a portion of this image overlaid with radio con...

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3-D
on Aug 12, 2009 in video materi Pernahkan Anda mendengar tentang Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image? Jika belum, silakan simak sedikit penjelasan dari wikipedia.The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, or HUDF, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubb...