Unseen Titanic

"Unseen Titanic"  At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the “unsinkable” R.M.S. Titanic disappeared beneath the waves, taking with her 1,500 souls. One hundred years later, new technologies have revealed the most complete—and most intimate—images of the famous wreck. More than two miles down, the ghostly bow of the Titanic emerges from the darkness on a dive by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron in 2001. The ship might have survived a head-on collision with an iceberg, but a sideswipe across her starboard side pierced too many of her watertight compartments. The propellers of the Olympic—the nearly identical sister ship...

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How to Spot Asteroid Juno in the Night Sky

How to Spot Asteroid Juno in the Night Sky   On Sunday May 20, the same evening as the annular eclipse of the sun, the asteroid Juno reaches opposition, directly opposite the sun in the sky, between the constellations Ophiuchus and Serpens Caput. CREDIT: Starry Night A small, faint asteroid will be coming into view this week, and lucky skywatchers with the right tools could catch a glimpse of the space rock. In the first few years of the 19th century, astronomers discovered four new bodies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Three of these asteroids, Ceres, Pallas and Vesta, were fairly large objects, measuring between 592 and...

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Google Chrome beats Internet Explorer in browser war

Google Chrome beats Internet Explorer in browser war        LONDON: Google Chrome has now overtaken Internet Explorer to become the world's most widely used web browser. Google Chrome briefly became the world's most popular web browser for one weekend in March, but according to figures from Statcounter it has now overtaken Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the foreseeable future. On desktops, Chrome and IE have been on around 33 per cent each, but the last week shows Chrome taking the lead, media report said. Speaking in March, Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter's chief executive, said 'at weekends, when people are free to...

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A History of Asteroid Collision Near Misses

A History of Asteroid Collision Near Misses If an asteroid hits earth it could very well be the end of days. We will not have Bruce Willis ready to give his life to save humanity and the human race may not recover. Doom and gloom? If an asteroid attack is keeping you up at night, you should know that the earth has been in the trajectory of asteroids, meteors and other space debris for thousands of years. Actually Factually Asteroids were formed when the space between Jupiter and Mars did not allow the formation of any planetary bodies. The objects in the space broke and fragmented giving rise to asteroids which can have a diameter of over 500...

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