Astronomy Hoaxes

Egg Hoax

This hoax is  very untrue.  An egg can not stand straight up on any normal day or on the equinox because the yolk and such inside of the egg.  The equinox stands for the first day of fall or spring there is nothing special to make an egg stand straight up.  Some people may be able to stand an egg straight up on it's end with a lot of patients, but it has nothing to do with the equinox. 

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The Great Moon Hoax

On August 25, 1835 the New York Sun announced the discovery of life on the moon. It explained that the discovery had been made by the famous British astronomer Sir John Herschel, who had invented a new telescope.  Over the course of the next week the Sun printed details about the moon creatures Herschel had supposedly spied with his telescope.  This is a hoax because they is no life forms living on the moon.  Sir John Herschel's false discovery excited many people in america and the  New York Sun sold many copies of their newspaper.

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Hubble Space Telescope.

This article tells all about the Hubble Telescope's new features.  There will be a new camera installed and two new instruments.  The telescope's new instruments also are more sensitive to light and can observe in ways that are significantly more efficient and require less observing time than previous generations of Hubble instruments.

I really like this article, it gives a lot of good detailed information about the new instruments and what the Hubble Telescope actually does.  Also you can learn a lot from this article, which is always important.  I think the Hubble Telescope is very important to space and should be left in space.  One question I have is: How do they get the Telescope up into space?

No author is stated for this article.  This article was posted September 9th, 2009.