Beta Centaurids meteor shower on the 1st February, 2012. Radiant: RA=208°, dec=-58° The Alpha Centaurids are a meteor shower in the constellation Centaurus, peaking in early February each year. The average magnitude is around 2.5, with a peak of about three meteors an hour. Read more
Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 - 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German abbot, lexicographer, historian, cryptographer, polymath and occultist who had an influence on later occultism. The name by which he is more commonly known is derived from his native town of Trittenhe...
Daniel Tani (born February 1, 1961) is an American engineer and a NASA astronaut. With Peggy Whitson, Tani conducted the 100th spacewalk on the International Space Station. Read more
Title: Detection of a multi-shell planetary nebula around the hot subdwarf O-type star 2MASS J19310888+4324577 Authors: A. Aller, L. F. Miranda, A. Ulla, R. Vázquez, P. F. Guillén, L. Olguín, C. Rodríguez-López, P. Thejll, R. Oreiro, M. Manteiga, E. Pérez The origin of hot subdwarf O-type stars (...
Fritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist. He is a founding director of the Centre for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California, and is on the faculty of Schumacher College. Read more
Anniversary of Explorer 1 Launch January 31, 1958 The beginning of US space Exploration Read more Explorer-I, officially Satellite 1958 Alpha (and sometimes referred to as Explorer 1), was...
A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to "lethal trauma" as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. In a graphic 400-page report, NASA further studied the F...
5th Anniversary of the end of the Galileo mission The Galileo spacecraft's 14-year odyssey came to an end on Sunday, Sept. 21, when the spacecraft passed into Jupiter's shadow then disintegrated in the planet's dense atmosphere at 11:57 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. [url=http://www2.jpl.nasa.g...
Title: Another Unsung Lowell Observatory Achievement: The First Infrared Observation of a Comet Authors: J. N. Marcus Carl Lampland was the first to observe a comet in the infrared, a feat little known today because he failed to formally publish his data. I have retrieved the radiometry of this com...
NASA Spacecraft Sees Huge Burp At Saturn After Large Storm NASA's Cassini spacecraft has tracked the aftermath of a rare massive storm on Saturn. Data reveal record-setting disturbances in the planet's upper atmosphere long after the visible signs of the storm abated, in addition to an indicatio...
SOFIA Spots Recent Starbursts in the Milky Way Galaxy's Center Researchers using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured new images of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years in diameter surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a...
Title: The detection of C60 in the well-characterised planetary nebula M1-11 Authors: Masaaki Otsuka, F. Kemper, S. Hyung, B. A. Sargent, M. Meixner, A. Tajitsu, K. Yanagisawa We performed multiwavelength observations of the young planetary nebula (PN) M1-11 and obtained its elemental abunda...
Title: A Quasi-Periodic Oscillation of ~ 30 Minutes in the X-ray Light Curve of the BL Lac S5 0716+714 Authors: Alok C. Gupta (1), Paul J. Wiita (2,3), Jeewan C. Pandey (1), A. K. Srivastava (1) ((1) ARIES, Nainital, India; (2) Princeton, NJ, USA; (3) GSU, Atlanta, USA) (Version v2) We withdraw our cla...
New Comm Satellite Launch Nears Spoiler Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre update media on Jan. 28 about Wednesday's scheduled launch of the TDRS-K, the first of a new generation of communications satellites that will...
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