Scientists at NASA and the University of Kansas say that a mass extinction on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago could have been triggered by a star explosion called a gamma-ray burst. The scientists do not have direct evidence that such a burst...
Outburst of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann. ... The comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has brightened up again reaching magnitude 11.0 V. on September 21, 2008. ... The brightening was observed by Juan Antonio. ... ... Ephemeris ...
According to the French Space Agency (CNES), the construction work on the infrastructure to allow launches of Soyuz spacecraft from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana will start in December, and are expected to be completed in July 2008.
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Thirty-five radio telescopes around the world will conduct an unprecedented continuous 24-hour observation of nearly 250 remote quasars this week. The collection of quasars, whose positions in the sky are precisely known, forms the core (or defining ...
A magnitude 14.8, Type Ia supernova, 2009kq, was discovered on the 5th November, 2009, in the galaxy MCG +05-21-1 in the constellation Cancer. ... by R. Gagliano, and T. Puckett using the Double Beam Spectrograph on the Palomar 200-inch telescope. .....
Major Scientific Discovery on Extrasolar Planets.
NATURE, the scientific journal, will publish on the 26 January 2006, a major paper on a discovery addressing extra-solar planets.
The European Southern Observatory ESO contributed to this ...
The ancient sea was more like a giant salty lake than a rolling ocean, report scientists from Imperial College London in the May edition of the Journal of the Geological Society.
A new computer model that simulates how tides in North West Europe wo...
The chances of finding life somewhere else in the Universe depends on how many planets are capable of supporting life. According to new calculations by astronomers at Open University, as many as half of all star systems could contain habitable planet...
A magnitude 8.5 nova was discovered by H. Nishimura (Japan) on the 9th November, 2009, in the constellation Scutum. ... ... Position (2000): RA = 18 43 45.57, Dec= -07 36 42.0...
Astronomers Study Shape of Stellar Candles
Astronomers are reporting remarkable new findings that shed light on a decade-long debate about one kind of supernovae, the explosions that mark a star's final demise: does the star die in a slow bu...
The Yellowstone caldera has been classified a high threat for volcanic eruption, according to a report from the U.S. Geological Survey.
Yellowstone ranks 21st most dangerous of the 169 volcano centres in the US, according to the Geological Survey...
The SNP wants Scotland to be home to the UK's first commercial spaceport. ... Virgin Galactic has already identified RAF Lossiemouth in Moray as a potential launch site, and Angus Robertson, the local MP and the SNP's Westminster leader, is backing t...
The first colour images taken by the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere - some of constellations as distant as 10 000 million light years - were revealed on Thursday by the astronomy team responsible for the Southern African Larg...
ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is taking an important step towards the realisation of a new, giant telescope for Europe's astronomers, by creating the ESO Extremely Large Telescope Project Office....
NASA Announces Breakthrough in Space Weather Forecasting
Researchers from NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Centres Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) will ...
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