Paul Joseph Sally, Jr. (born January 29, 1933) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he is the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Read more
Lawrence Hargrave (29 January 1850 - 14 July 1915) was an engineer, explorer, astronomer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer. Of great significance to those pioneers working toward powered flight, Hargrave successfully lifted himself off the ground under a train of four of his box kites at Stan...
Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS (28 July 1674 - 28 August 1731) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences. Boyle became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In 1713, under the patronage of Boyle, clockmaker George Graham created the first mechanical solar system model...
Lubo Kohoutek (January 29, 1935, Zábreh in Moravia, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech astronomer who has discovered numerous asteroids and comets, most famously Comet Kohoutek. Read more
A CZ-2D Rocket body that was launched on the 5th November, 2008, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, for the Shiyan Weixing 3 (SW-3) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 28th January, 2012 @ 20:40 GMT ± 8 hours.CZ-2D RB
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Cosmos 1484 was a Soviet remote sensing satellite launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome aboard a Vostok rocket. It was a follow-on to the Meteor series and the second flight of a prototype for the Resurs-O1 spacecraft. It was used for gathering regular information on the natural resources of the ea...
DEM L50: Stellar Effervescence on Display This composite image shows the superbubble DEM L50 (a.k.a. N186) located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light years from Earth. Superbubbles are found in regions where massive stars have formed in the last few million years. The massive star...
SSTL to build weather satellite constellation British satellite manufacturer SSTL will build the follow-on spacecraft for an innovative weather forecasting system run by Tawain and the US. The Cosmic constellation assists meteorologists by measuring the extent to which GPS signals are alter...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 16:38:53 (UTC) on Monday, January 28, 2013, in the Eastern Kazakhstan region, 60 km SE of Kegen, at a depth of 10.9 km. Location 42.604°N, 79.696°E
IC 2391 (also known as the Omicron Velorum Cluster) is an open cluster in the constellation Vela. The open cluster spans an area of sky of about 50 arcminutes, and contains about 30 stars. Read more
Possible theory for "fireball" seen in night sky Sunday Meteorologist Leo Hirsbrunner says "space junk may have burned up in the Earth's atmosphere and that light would have been visible to people along the East Coast." The timing fits just right. A piece of the Cosmos 1484 en...
Iran's attempt to launch monkey into space fails Iran has acknowledged that its attempt to send a live monkey into space has turned out to be a failure. The project, unveiled in February by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, envisaged launching a capsule with life support using the Kavoshgar-5 rocket...
Title: Time-resolved Spectroscopy of the Polar EU Cancri in the Open Cluster Messier 67 Authors: Kurtis A. Williams (1), Steve B. Howell (2), James Liebert, Paul S. Smith (3), Andrea Bellini (4), Kate H.R. Rubin (5), Michael Bolte (6) ((1) Texas A&M University-Commerce, (2) NASA Ames, (3) Ste...
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