* Astronomy

The 1996 Lijiang earthquake, which occurred at 7:14 PM on 3 February 1996 near Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China, measured 7.0 on the Richter scale. Read more

Sunspots 11665, 11662, 11663 and new sunspot 11667 + some smaller spots captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam and solar filter. Music via an Amiga 1200

Orbital elements: 2013 BE74 Earth MOID = 0.1201 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 38.53944 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47823636 Peri. 175.04304 -0.63974289 -0.76168038 a 1.6194753 Node 314.68148 +0.70010310 -0.52229764 e 0.3173796 Incl. 8.31460 +0.31715088 -0.38346861 P 2.06 H 23.9 G...

Hubble Catches the Moment the Lights Went Out The further away you look, the further back in time you see. Astronomers use this fact to study the evolution of the Universe by looking at nearby and more distant galaxies and comparing their features. Hubble is particularly well suited for this type of w...

Ernst Zinner (2 February 1886, Goldberg, Silesia - 30 August 1970) was a German astronomer and noted historian of astronomy. From 1 February 1910, Zinner worked as an assistant at Remeis-Observatory, Bamberg. Here, on 23 October 1913 he rediscovered the Comet Giacobini-Zinner, which had been p...

Evgeny Pavlovich Velikhov (born on February 2, 1935) is a physicist and scientific leader in the Russian Federation. His scientific interests include plasma physics, lasers, controlled nuclear fusion, power engineering and magnetohydrodynamics (high-power pulsed MHD generators). [url=...

Jacques Philippe Marie Binet (February 2, 1786 - May 12, 1856) was a French mathematician, physicist and astronomer born in Rennes; he died in Paris, France, in 1856. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra which would later lead to i...

Kazimierz Kuratowski (February 2, 1896 - June 18, 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. Kuratowskis research mainly focused on abstract topological and metric structures. He implemented the closure axioms (known in the world as the Kuratowski closure axioms), which was fundamental...

Akbar Adibi (1939-2000) was an Iranian electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, and university engineering professor. Read more

William Ford Robinson Stanley (2 February 1829 - 14 August 1909) was a British inventor with 78 patents filed in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He was an engineer who designed and made precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and te...

Julian Karol Sochocki (February 2, 1842, Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - December 14, 1927, Leningrad, Soviet Union) was a Polish mathematician. Read more

2013 Dark Sky Festival at Harmony, Central Florida: 2nd February, 2013. Read more

VISIONS: Seeing the Aurora in a New Light On a cold February night in Poker Flat, Alaska, a team of scientists will wait patiently for the exotic red and green glow of an aurora to illuminate the sky. Instead of simply admiring the view, this group from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre of Greenbelt, M...

Orbital elements: 2013 BD74 Earth MOID = 0.0009 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 46.58465 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39760519 Peri. 327.68927 +0.15058329 -0.98828937 a 1.8316171 Node 113.63970 +0.91265070 +0.12937847 e 0.4934175 Incl. 1.54338 +0.37999128 +0.08090320 P 2.48 H 24.2 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 BA74 Earth MOID = 0.0090 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 24.13464 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42141615 Peri. 202.82109 -0.89439127 -0.44175899 a 1.7619568 Node 310.77123 +0.42333202 -0.78543964 e 0.4459665 Incl. 5.31065 +0.14441004 -0.43351305 P 2.34 H 25.0 G...