Bright star explosion near the Southern Cross Australian amateur astronomer John Seach who lives on Chatsworth Island, which is between Grafton and Lismore in northern NSW, has discovered a star explosion known as a nova near one of the pointers to the Southern Cross. At last report Nova Cen 2013 wa...
NASA and ESA join forces to build life-seeking Europa lander It will take more than six years to get there. But if long-anticipated signs of life are found on Europa, a newly-proposed joint American-European trek to the enigmatic moon of Jupiter will have been worth it. Called the Joint Europa Missi...
A Big Surprise from the Edge of the Solar System NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored reaches of the solar system. Mission scientists say the prob...
Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for almost $120m Tension builds at Sotheby's auction house in New York as The Scream smashes the world record for art auctions. Ed ~ the dramatic sunset in the picture may record the 1883 eruption of the volca...
Comet 46P/Wirtanen is brightening as it travels through Pisces this month. The comet passes close to the spiral galaxy NGC 524 on February 4 - 5. ate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase m1 2008 02 04 01 19.44 +07 54.3 0.932 1.058 66.9 59.0 9...
Costa Rica Poas Volcano Under Surveillance After Eruptions Experts form the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) are closely monitoring the Poas Volcano, after several instances of phreatic eruptions (steam, water and ash). [url=http://www.costaricanti...
Landmark wildlife summit gives reasons to be cheerful about conservation An international wildlife event, organised by the University of Oxford and partners, has highlighted the wide progress being made in conservation. During a two-day run, more than 250 people attended the Conservation Opt...
Peggy Annette Whitson (born February 9, 1960) is an American biochemistry researcher, NASA astronaut, and former NASA Chief Astronaut. Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 5. Read more
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of...
Ancient bamboo slips for calculation enter world records book A set of bamboo slips dating back more than 2,300 years were officially recognized Sunday by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's earliest decimal calculation tool. The 21 slips, crafted around 305 BC during the Warring Sta...
Title: Galaxy Zoo: The interplay of quenching mechanisms in the group environment Author: R. J. Smethurst, C. J. Lintott, S. P. Bamford, R. E. Hart, S. J. Kruk, K. L. Masters, R. C. Nichol, B. D. Simmons Does the environment of a galaxy directly influence the quenching history of a galaxy? Here we inve...
Title: Constraining the structure of the planet-forming region in the disk of the Herbig Be star HD 100546 Authors: E. Tatulli, M. Benisty, F. Ménard, P. Varničre, C. Martin-Zaidi, W.-F. Thi, C. Pinte, F. Massi, G. Weigelt, K.-H. Hofmann, R. G. Petrov Studying the physical conditions in circumste...
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