• About Cosmos

    In the general sense, a cosmos is an orderly or harmonious system. The word derives from the Greek term κόσμος (kosmos), literally meaning "order" or "ornament" and metaphorically "world" [...]

  • NASA missions

    NASA have conducted the X-Plane Program. The program was originally intended to create a family of experimental aircraft not set for production beyond the limited number of each design built solely for flight research. The first X-Plane, the Bell X-1 was the first rocket-powered airplane to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 X-Planes have set numerous milestones since then, both manned and unmanned [...]

  • Our Earth is Our Life

    No human pursuit deals with deepers questions of our existense than astronomy Thus it is no wonder that astronomy has long captured the public imagination - Mangesh_More

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is There Life on Mars? How Do galaxies evolve? Why doesn't any one know what the universe is made of? THESE ARE JUST A FEW QUESTIONS ADRRESED IN ON THE COSMIC HORIZON

Kepler-186f

Posted on 8:51 PM by mangesh_more
On Thursday (April 17), NASA announced the historic discovery of Kepler-186f, an alien planet 490 light-years from our own world that is nearly the size of Earth and located inside the habitable zone of its parent star. The planet Kepler-186f was discovered by scientists using NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The planet has a radius that is 1.1 times the radius of Earth, making it only slightly larger than our planet. Main...
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Upcoming 2013 ISON comet might be the brightest ever – set to shine as a full moon

Posted on 7:42 PM by mangesh_more
Upcoming 2013 ISON comet might be the brightest ever – set to shine as a full moon Published on Mon, Jan 14, 2013 by  Post filled By: Mangesh_More Photograph of Comet West, one of the greatest comets of all-time, taken by an amateur astronomer. (c) John Laborde Discovered last year by Russian astronomers Vitaly Nevsky and Artyom Novichonok, the gigantic ISON comet is set to make its appearance later this year as it approaches...
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The end of Earth, the end of us, and the end of the universe

Posted on 9:38 PM by mangesh_more
Share This article 10inShare Humanity is obsessed with history. I don’t know why, but for the most part we would much rather lose ourselves in reverie than contemplate the future. Even when we do think of the future, it’s nearly always constrained to our future, usually just a handful of years hence. It is a rare person indeed who thinks of 50 or 100 years in the future — but what about 1,000 years? Or a million years? Or...
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Structure and Evolution of Normal & Active Galaxies

Posted on 4:41 AM by mangesh_more
Galactic structure and evolution is the study of whole galaxies as coherent, self-contained systems of dark matter, stars, and gas and how those systems change over billions of years of time. Like a living organism, the history of a galaxy is shaped by its internal metabolic processes (star formation and death, gravitational interactions among all its components, and sometimes by an active black hole engine at its core) as well as by interactions...
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Soyuz Spacecraft Returning to Earth with US-Russian Crew

Posted on 9:22 PM by mangesh_more
A Soyuz spacecraft has undocked from the International Space Station and is preparing to descend into Earth's atmosphere to return an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts back home after nearly five months living in orbit. The undocking tonight (March 15) occurred smoothly, but one day later than planned, due to freezing rain and fog at the Soyuz's landing site on the steppes of Kazakhstan in Central Asia, which delayed the departure....
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New update on comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)

Posted on 3:25 AM by mangesh_more
Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS), discovered by Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, on the night of 2011, June 5-6, will reach perihelion in March 2013 when it will be located only 0.30 AU from the Sun and might become a bright naked eye object ( with a peak magnitude of anywhere from +1 to -1). At its brightest C/2011 L4 will appear only 15° from the Sun. The comet is now at 3.2 AU from the Sun (m2 ~ 14.0). While visually C/2011 L4 is...
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Mars Science Laboratory

Posted on 3:04 AM by mangesh_more
Different Tools for Different Purposes on Mars This set of images from Mars shows the handiwork of different tools on three missions to the surface of Mars. The action of each of the tools has sometimes been referred to as drilling, but the functions of the tools have been different for each mission. On the left is a rock on which NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used the rock abrasion tool on the rover's robotic arm. Opportunity...
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