Oman contributed 16% of world's meteorite finds in 2011 The discovery of several meteorites, including a host of Martian and lunar rocks, in the deserts of Oman in the recent past has lent international recognition to the sultanate as a promising destination for scientific study. [url=http://ww...
The California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory invites the public to share the wonders of exploring the universe during its open house on Saturday, June 25, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors will go behind the glass for an insider's tour of the giant Hale Telescope.
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In January 26th 1531, the Tagus River Estuary was hit by a strong earthquake, the intensity of which in Lisbon was, according to relevant authors, greater than that of the 1755 earthquake. It was cited by most of the European annalists of the time and was responsible for the destruction of structures...
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón reached Brazil on January 26, 1500 In 1499 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón sailed to the South American coast. Carried by a strong storm, he reached the north coast of what today is Brazil on January 26, 1500. Pinzón disembarked on the shore called Praia do Paraíso, in present-day Cabo de Sa...
Just before midnight on Monday, a bright flash occurred, lighting up the entire sky. "It was a bright fireball," said Thomas Cupillari, director of the Thomas G. Cupillari '60 Observatory at Keystone College. Read more
India to test subsonic cruise missile in February India will flight test its "Nirbhay (fearless)" subsonic cruise missile in February from the integrated test range at Chandipur in Odisha on the east coast, a top defence official said Friday. [url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes....
Title: The wind of the M-type AGB star RT Virginis probed by VLTI/MIDI Authors: Stéphane Sacuto, Sofia Ramstedt, Susanne Höfner, Hans Olofsson, Sara Bladh, Kjell Eriksson, Bernhard Aringer, Daniela Klotz, Matthias Maercker We study the circumstellar environment of the M-type AGB star RT Vir us...
Chameleon Star Baffles Astronomers Scientists identified a pulsar that is able to dramatically change the way in which it shines. In just a few seconds, the star can quiet its radio waves while at the same time it makes its X-ray emissions much brighter. [url=http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=ne...
Globular Cluster M107 (also known as Messier Object 107 or NGC 6171) is a very loose globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in April 1782 and independently by William Herschel in 1793. It wasn't until 1947 that Helen Sawyer Hogg added it and three other o...
Title: Asteroseismology of the Kepler V777 Her variable white dwarf with fully evolutionary models Authors: Alejandro H. Córsico, Leandro G. Althaus, Marcelo M. Miller Bertolami, Agnès Bischoff-Kim DBV stars are pulsating white dwarfs with atmospheres rich in He. Asteroseismology of DBV sta...
The 590 - 1300 metre wide asteroid 2006 YT13 will make a close pass (75.0 lunar distances, 0.1927 AU), travelling at 21.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th January, 2013 @ 17:29 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2005 XV77 will make a close pass (62.6 lunar distances, 0.1608 AU), travelling at 11.79 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th January, 2013 @ 05:27 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Ilya, Viscount Prigogine (25 January 1917 - 28 May 2003) was a Belgian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate noted for his work on dissipative structures, complex systems, and irreversibility. Read more
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