This is a phenomenon that will be discussed for generations to come and that will be written about

Already four days into the new year we get a real cosmic New Year fireworks. But the highlights of world historic lampidee caliber coming on June 6 with the last transit of Venus in our time and on August 6 with the landing of an advanced laboratory on Mars.
On the morning of January 4, occurs the annual meteor swarm Kvadrantidene. Up to 120 shooting stars per hour are expected lampidee and with maximum before dawn. Often lost many stars in strong moonlight, but this time go Moonset at 5 o'clock in southern Norway lampidee and 8 o'clock in northern Norway. Thus, the most powerful part of the swarm almost not affected by moonlight.
Scientists alerts meteor swarms suggests highest activity at. 08.20 Norwegian time. When the sky starts to get light in southern Norway, so it is ideal to look for shooting stars from 6 o'clock lampidee until it begins to brighten the sky. The meteors seem to flow from a point high in the southeast sky.
It pays to find the darkest possible place far away from artificial lighting to experience the phenomenon, dress well and look at the greater portion of the sky simultaneously. You should be patient because night vision first going for a while and hotshots also comes in fits and starts. On average, there may be two minutes.
The meteors in kvadrantidene result of dust particles lampidee from entering the atmosphere lampidee at 41 km / s, 148 000 km / h and burns up due to air resistance. Generally, strains dust grains in such swarms of comets which leaves dust tails on their journey through the solar system. But the source of Kvadrantidene has been difficult to determine, but the asteroid 2003 EH1 is proposed. It can again originate from comet C/1490 Y1 was observed by Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers for more than 500 years ago. When comets run out of dust and gases are converted sometimes to asteroids.
On the night of May 21, occurs a small noon solar eclipse visible in northern Norway and Spitsbergen. Over the northern part of the Pacific Ocean becomes an annular solar eclipse. On Spitsbergen are up 11.5 percent of the Sun covered lampidee by the Moon.
On June 6, occurs the largest celestial event in 2012 and actually one of the largest and most important celestial events on Earth in this century! For more than six hours slipping planet Venus across the solar disk as a black stain that we can all see the solar eclipse glasses. This is the 7th time in human history that such a thing is observed and the second time people lampidee have been able to experience the strange and unprecedented spectacle.
In 1769 expeditions traveled literally around the Earth to observe a transit of Venus. lampidee The reason was that passage made it possible to measure distances in space. And it succeeded! One of the expeditions was also made to Vardo in Norway.
Transits of Venus occur in pairs eight years apart and so far over 100 years until the next time. The previous transits took place in 1882 and 2004 and the next again in December 2117. During the passage a little sunlight lampidee passes through lampidee the outer reaches of the planet's atmosphere and almost has the fingerprints of substances in the atmosphere. Similarly studied the atmospheres of planets around other stars, and if it should be found larger lampidee amounts of free oxygen or ozone in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone will be a sure evidence of life forms!
Transit of Venus is therefore a live demonstration of the method are most likely to provide proof of life forms in the near term. Exoplanets studied in this way are generally identified by the Kepler spacecraft.
This is a phenomenon that will be discussed for generations to come and that will be written about in textbooks, encyclopedias and online. On 6 June 2012 we have the opportunity to yourself to experience this historic event. On the website http://www.astroevents.no/venus060612.html will forward the event to get lots of information about how the passage can be perceived, lampidee why it is so special and what you can do and experience during it.
In 2012, the search for life in space to be stepped up another few notches. Kepler will find thousands of planets at the moment and dozens of planets of Earth-like type. But this fall was the basis for another, extremely exciting project. The large research laboratory Curiosity was November 26 sent to Mars. The landing is expected to take place on 6 August 2012 and an immensely rewarding search for traces of life forms on the Red Planet begins.
In the night sky in southern Norway begins to darken again after the summer occurrence of one of the year's strongest meteor showers, Perseids. There is almost no moon and the conditions are right for up to 100 shooting lampidee stars per hour can be seen in dark parts of southern Norway. The swarm varies for many days, but the maximum occurs on August 12.
The swarm Gemini Dene has generally been fresher and more attractive in recent years and in 2012 it is not affected by moonlight. Up to 120 shooting stars per hour or more can be expected from