* Astronomy

Wavelength Conference 2013 March 11 - 13, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Shrove Tuesday is a term used in English-speaking countries, especially the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and parts of the United States for the day preceding Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season of fasting and prayer called Lent. Source

THX 1138 is a 1971 science fiction film directed by George Lucas in his directorial debut. The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police officers and mandatory use o...

Comet 223P/Skiff is at perihelion (2.420 AU) on the 14th August, 2010. Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2010 08 12 02 31.94 +33 51.0 2.156 2.420 92.4 24.7 17.5 2010 08 17 02 36.39 +35 23.2 2.102 2.420 95.6 24.6 17.5 2010 08 22 02 40.37 +36 55.6 2.050 2.421 98.8 24.4 17.4 2010 08 27 0...

A FALCON 9 rocket body that was launched on the 1st March, 2013, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, for the SpaceX CRS2 Dragon mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 11th March, 2013 @ 02:10 GMT ± 6 hours.1 39116U 13010B 13067.94435723 .02432183 12017-4 71800-...

Naturally occurring topological insulator is cleaner than synthetic samples. They say it's what is on the inside that counts. But that is not true for topological insulators - exotic materials that conduct electricity only along their surfaces. Physicists have now demonstrated this property i...

One of the world's biggest meteorite, weighing 1,770kg; it is literally the star attraction of the Jilin City Museum in China's northeast province of Jilin. According to records, a shower of meteorites rained down at 3pm on Aug 15, 1976, over a farmland measuring 500 sq km on the outskirts of the...

A total solar eclipse occurred on March 9, 1997. Read more

A total solar eclipse occurred on March 9, 1997. Read more

Walter Samuel Gerst Kohn (March 9, 1923 - April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. Read more

David Fabricius (March 9, 1564 - May 7, 1617), was a German theologian who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius (1587-1615). Read more David Fabriciu...

Orbital elements: 2013 EM20 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0433 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 101.02238 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61592826 Peri. 349.96850 +0.44169952 -0.88624000 a 1.3680941 Node 73.70559 +0.83287831 +0.34723014 e 0.3165999 Incl. 8.36116 +0.33348951 +0.30661034 P 1.60 H 1...

Title: The colour dependent morphology of the post-AGB star HD161796 Authors: M. Min, S.V. Jeffers, H. Canovas, M. Rodenhuis, C.U. Keller, L.B.F.M. Waters Context. Many protoplanetary nebulae show strong asymmetries in their surrounding shell, pointing to asymmetries during the mass loss ph...

Blue Bursts of Hot Young Stars Captured by Hubble This image, speckled with blue, white and yellow light, shows part of the spiral galaxy IC 5052. Surrounded in the image by foreground stars in our own galaxy, and distant galaxies beyond, it emits a bright blue-white glow which highlights its narrow...

Title: Life after eruption - II. The eclipsing old nova V728 Scorpii Authors: C. Tappert, N. Vogt, L. Schmidtobreick, A. Ederoclite, J. Vanderbeke The old nova V728 Sco has been recently recovered via photometric and spectroscopic observations, 150 years after the nova eruption. The spectral pr...

Orbital elements: 2000 BE19 Earth MOID = 0.0608 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 84.24142 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38578201 Peri. 326.41881 +0.77916364 -0.60427036 a 1.8688512 Node 71.64579 +0.60677834 +0.66043603 e 0.5589783 Incl. 10.11054 +0.15723890 +0.44573712 P 2.55 H 17.8 G...