Meteor Expands Its 3G Network
	While in India Ericsson is helping disadvantaged people, back in Europe, the Swedish telecommunications giant is taking care of more technical things. The company has announced a new deal with the Irish mobile operator Meteor, according to which it will be the exclusiv ... [read more >>]
	05 June 2008, 13:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

See Saturn, the Moon and Pleiades on the Sky this Month
	The night sky will entertain us this month with a splendid combination of stars, complemented by the Moon and Saturn. Starting with 8 April, star gazers will be able to view the Pleiades star cluster rising above the western skies after the sunset, as the Moon passes through the first quarter, the full moon phase and third quarter. While the Moon is very bright in this year period, shadowing most of the bright stars in its vicinity, it pas ... [read more >>]
	01 April 2008, 06:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Next Meteor Shower: Ursids
	The Ursids meteors shower usually begins on the 17th of December every year, and lasts for more than a week, until 25th or 26th of December. Its name comes from the point where it seems to radiate, which is somewhere near the star Beta Ursae Minor, in the constellation of Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Dipper. It is provoked by the passing of the periodical comet 8P/Tuttle, and though in other years the meteor shower had a relatively ... [read more >>]
	13 December 2007, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Don't Miss the Orionid Meteor Shower Show This Weekend!
	Are you ready? You will not see this again until next year: Halley's comet will bring forth the magnificent Orionid meteor shower at its peak this week. The show is triggered by fragments of this "king star" amongst other comets. You could see these days 15 or 20 meteors an hour by the naked eye. The Orionid shower is not the most impressive, but the most predictable one in timing and intensity. "They ... [read more >>]
	19 October 2007, 05:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hundreds of People in Hospital - Consequence of a Possible Meteor Impact
	No one is sure yet if it really was a meteorite, but hundreds of Peruvians have required treatment after Saturday night, an object from space crashed on Earth, in a remote area, leaving a deep crater near the town of Carancas (Andes), in the Puno area (south Peru, near the Bolivian border), some 1,300km (800 mi) south of Lima. Those who have visited the place have been accusing symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and nausea ... [read more >>]
	19 September 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Don't Miss It Tomorrow Morning: Rare Meteor Shower!
	Tomorrow morning you can take a look at a rare two-hour meteor shower coming from the remote Oort cloud, at the edges of the Solar System. The Aurigid show will reach its maximum at 4:30 a.m. Pacific daylight time, spotting the night sky with about 200 shooting stars each hour. The unusual event can be witnessed just once at 50 years and takes place when Earth crosses a dusty tail of comets orbiting our star. But while other comets ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 04:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

This Weekend: the Perseid Meteor Shower at Its Peak!
	Be prepared this weekend: you will witness the most amazing cosmic shower as the summer's annual meteor dazzling show reaches its peak. As this year the moon won't interfere with the Perseid meteor shower, the eager beavers hope to watch streaking fireballs late Sunday into dawn Monday, no matter the longitude. At the peak of the shower, as many as 60 meteors/hour could be seen, as it has already been estimated. And ... [read more >>]
	13 August 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

August Will Bring the Greatest Meteor Shower of the Year
	August will be a good month for skywatchers around the world, as the most important meteor shower of the year will put an impressive show, with dozens of shooting stars being expected each hour in the night sky. The best thing about the annual Perseid meteor shower is the fact that the Moon - space bane of meteor watchers for its tendency to wash out all but the brightest meteors - will be out of the way during the shower' ... [read more >>]
	13 July 2007, 02:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Newly Discovered Blue Landslides on Mars
	New images of a recent landslide in the Martian crater Zunil show astonishing blue streaks on the walls. This image was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars reconnaissance orbiter. There's a catch, though. This is a false color picture and its purpose is to show areas recently disturbed by an avalanche. HiRISE is a 70 Kg, $40 million dollar (US) instrument, cons ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Eircom Goes Mobile
	Business Correspondent Eircom has announced that it will launch a personalized mobile phone brand sometime at the end of this month. Ericom Mobile will hopefully turn out to be a successful launch for the already highly regarded phone company. The action is targeted at 8,000 small and medium-sized businesses costumers. Although signing up for Ericom Mobile also means receiving distinct paybills, the company is considering offe ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2007, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Halley's Comet Will Produce Spectacular Meteor Shower on Sunday
	On Sunday, a meteor shower will occur when fragments dragged along by Halley's Comet will enter and burn in the night sky. Called the eta Aquarid meteor shower because their radiant appears to lie in the constellation Aquarius, near one of the constellation's brightest stars, Eta Aquarii, they are not exactly one of the best meteor showers, only the best visible in the southern hemisphere and the moonlight will ma ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Spectacular Meteor Shower This Weekend - Don't Miss It!
	The Lyrid meteor shower will peak this weekend, in the morning of April 22 and 23. The Lyrids are a strong meteor shower lasting from April 15th to April 28th each year. The radiant of the meteor shower is located in the constellation Lyra. It peaks at April 22th. The source of the meteor shower is the periodic Comet C/1861 G1 Thatcher. The Lyrids have been observed for the past 2600 years. The shower on May 22nd, 687 B ... [read more >>]
	20 April 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia