Title: Identification of the Long-Sought Common-Envelope Events Authors: N. Ivanova, S. Justham, J. L. Avendano Nandez, J. C. Lombardi Jr Common-envelope events (CEEs), during which two stars temporarily orbit within a shared envelope, are believed to be vital for the formation of a wide range...
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the only astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA's Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Read more
David Stanley Evans (28 January 1916 - 14 November 2004) was a British astronomer, noted for his use of lunar occultations to measure stellar angular diameters during the 1950s. Read more
Julius Bauschinger (January 28, 1860 - January 21, 1934) was a German astronomer. The minor planet 2306, discovered in 1939, has been named after Bauschinger. Read more
Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225 - 7 March 1274), also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the "Dumb Ox", "Angelic Doctor", &q...
Adrien Auzout (28 January 1622 - 23 May 1691) was a French astronomer. Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the micrometer. He made many observations with large aerial telescopes and he is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge ae...
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 - 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer. On 27 May 1931, Auguste Piccard and Paul Kipfer took off from Augsburg, Germany, and reached a record altitude of 15,785 m. During this flight, Piccard was able to gather substantial data on the u...
The Blizzard of 1977 was a deadly blizzard that hit upstate New York and Southern Ontario from January 28 to February 1, 1977. Daily peak wind gusts ranging from 46 to 69 mph (74 to 111 km/h) were recorded by the National Weather Service Buffalo Office (2006a). Read more
Challenger is a film based on Richard Feynman's investigation of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. David Strathairn will play Dr. Feynman. The film will be directed by Philip Kaufman. It was slated to premiere at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with a wide release scheduled for 2008, but was not...
In the late 17th century, the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius began crafting a new atlas of the stars. He had one big problem, though. There were many "supernumeri," leftover stars that didn't belong to any known constellation. Hevelius got creative, and devised new constellatio...
Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (28 January 1841 - 10 May 1904), found David Livingstone on 10 November 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania, and may have greeted him with the now-famous, "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?" This famous phrase ma...
Cyclone Domoina (also spelt Demoina) was a tropical cyclone that hit southern Africa in early 1984, causing some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region. Read more
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of 49,070 km² lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island w...
A H-2A Launch Vehicle No. 22 is scheduled to launch a classified IGS radar reconnaissance satellite from the Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan, on the 27th January, 2013. The two hour launch window opens at 04:00 UT.
