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Celebrating Galilean Nights (GN2009) in Nepal on October 23,2009!
Nepal Astronomical society(NASO) and Step- Nepal jointly organizes a talk programme followed by a star party to make people know know what Galileo had seen 400 years ago on Friday,October 23,2009 at Dhangadi. Programme Details: Title: Astronomical Awareness Venue: Dhangadi,Kailali,Nepal Date: Friday,23 October,2009 Time: 15:00 Hrs onwards Contact:+977-9841441402 ( Riwaj Pokhrel) Co-Organizer: Step- Nepal,Dhangadi and Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO,Kathmandu If you wish to participate in this grand celebration of Galilean Nights in Nepal ,please contact Step- Nepal or NASO immediately. Source: Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO),October21, 2009
The Nobel Prize In 2009
-By Rishi Shah The prestigious Nobel Prizes are awarded annually to those persons or institutions for having conferred the greatest benefit to mankind with their work in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Peace. The prizes were established in 1895 in accordance with the will of a Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel who made great fortune with his invention of dynamite. Additionally, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was instituted by Sweden’s Central Bank only in 1968. This year the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute granted the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. The trio American professors have unraveled the secrets of how the chromosomes can be copied during cell division and how they are safe-guarded against degradation. Lengthy thread-alike DNA m...
October sky :If you're a fan of Star Wars, this is the month to check out the skies above
The October constellations are a mixed bag. At sunset, the summer constellations glow in the west, but are outshone by the winter constellations after midnight. So just when you thought summer was finally behind us, these stars tell you: no, not quite yet. On the bright side, a lot of the constellations have vaguely Star Wars-esque names, so if you're a Lucas fan, this is the month to check them out. The Great Square, a constellation within Pegasus, will replace the Summer Triangle as the most prominent night constellation. Watch out for the distinctive W-shape of Cassiopeia in the north, and also Perseus nearby. The Andromeda Galaxy is very noticeable as a large bright elongated smudge, even through binoculars. If you have a telescope, you can catch sight of dust lanes in our nearest galactic neighbour (see star map). If you have binoculars, check out the rather stiffly named star cluster, M-15 (what did I tell you about Star Wars?). Don't worry: they're far more interesti...