A Quote by Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain



Telescopes are in some ways like time machines...
They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you're less romantic you can say we're the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. We've made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmoc, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat.



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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

NASA's footage of first man on moon...LOST!

Really??? May be you knew, but I did not..

I cant believe this! NASA's footage of the historic Apollo 11 1969 mookwalk was lost somewhere in NASA's archives or it got erased(???) during reuse, and was found only recently...in bad shape!


I have really believed NASA so far... even after the Russians got back at USA saying that the footage was faked. But now this incident arouses all sorts of questions in my mind. I am a little shocked... but somehow I still continue to trust NASA for their first moonwalk. A screening of long-lost tapes from the Apollo 11 mission – including footage of Neil Armstrong's iconic descent from the lunar module to the surface of the moon – will take place in Australia next week, according to some news reports.

I am looking forward to seeing those tapes... I will post that tape here on my blog once I get to record it. Be on the lookout..

Courtesy: space.com

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