Summer Solstice June 21st, 2011 which is one of the longest day of the year. Actully this type of event occurs when there is a tilt in the sun and earth axial. As a result of this tilt the day remains for a long time and night too. so the length of the Increased than normal 24 hours.
Normally Summer Solitice occurs when the sun at the highest northerly point in Northern Hemisphere, Similarly for Southern Hemislhere we have “Winter Solstice”.
Most of the say this event as Midsummmer. have a …

Watch the Yesterday’s Lunar Eclipse Video – 16th June 2011. Rare footage of the longest ever Lunar Eclipse which can be observed in Asia and part of Europian countries on 16th June 2011.
According to spurces from wikipedia A total lunar eclipse took place on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second will occur on December 10, 2011.
This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth’s shadow passes across the Moon. The last time a lunar eclipse …

Geminids Meteor shower December 2010: The Geminids are a meteor shower caused by the object 3200 Phaethon, which is thought to be a Palladian asteroid. This would make the Geminids the only meteor shower not originating from a passing comet. The meteors from this shower are slow moving, can be seen in December and usually peak around the 13th – 14th of the month, with the date of highest intensity being the morning of the 14th. The shower is thought to be intensifying every year and recent showers have seen …

Gliese 581G: Gliese 581 g or Gl 581 g, is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, 20.5 light-years[2] from Earth in the constellation of Libra. It is the sixth planet discovered in the Gliese 581 planetary system and the fourth in order of increasing distance from the star. The planet was discovered by the Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey after a decade of observation. Despite the Gliese 581 system having a “somewhat checkered history of habitable planet claims,”[1] results from the study imply that the planet is located …

Watch NASA TV Online – Perseid Meteor Shower 2010 live Peaks Tonight on twitter NASA. watch the NASA TV online on the official NASA Site for public: A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit …