Europe's latest weather eye set for launch In Europe, this is a really big year for our weather agencies because they get two new satellites that will be absolutely crucial to their work. One is another polar-orbiting spacecraft called Metop-B, due for launch in May (see previous posting). The othe...
Deep Space Industries Announces Fleet of Asteroid Hunting Spacecraft Deep Space Industries announced today that it will send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources to accelerate space development to benefit Earth. These "FireFly"...
Title: Investigation of X-ray cavities in the cooling flow system Abell 1991 Authors: M.B.Pandge, N.D.Vagshette, S.S.Sonkamble, M.K.Patil We present results based on the systematic analysis of Chandra archive data on the X-ray bright Abell Richness class-I type cluster Abell 1991 with an obj...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope have discovered that a newborn star has two disks of material rotating in opposite directions.
"This is the first time anyone has seen anything like this, and it means that the process of forming planets...
Title: Multi-site observations of Delta Scuti stars 7 Aql and 8 Aql (a new Delta Scuti variable): The twelfth STEPHI campaign in 2003 Authors: L. Fox Machado, E. Michel, F. Perez Hernandez, J.H. Pena, Z.P. Li, M. Chevreton, J.A. Belmonte, M. Alvarez, L. Parrao, M.-A. Dupret, S. Pau, A. Fernandez, J....
Title: JPCam: A 1.2Gpixel camera for the J-PAS survey Authors: K. Taylor, A. Marin-Franch, R. Laporte, F. G. Santoro, L. Marrara, J. Cepa, A. J. Cenarro, S. Chueca, D. Cristobal-Hornillos, A. Ederoclite, N. Gruel, M. Moles, F. Rueda, S. Rueda, J. Varela, A. Yanes, N. Benitez, R. Dupke, A. Fernandez...
Pierre Gassendi (also Pierre Gassend, Petrus Gassendi; January 22, 1592 - October 24, 1655) was a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. In 1621, he was the first person to give the Aurora Borealis a name. Read more
Professor Andrzej Udalski, PhD (born 22 January 1957 in Lód, Poland) is a Polish astronomer and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. He is also head of the Department of Observational Astrophysics at Astronomical Observatory, the head and project manager of the O...
Thomas David Jones (born January 22, 1955) is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996 and STS-98 in 2001. Read more
Title: A Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope/Chandra view of IRAS 09104+4109: A type 2 QSO in a cooling flow Authors: Ewan O'Sullivan, Simona Giacintucci, Arif Babul, Somak Raychaudhury, Tiziana Venturi, Chris Bildfell, Andisheh Mahdavi, J. B. R. Oonk, Norman Murray, Henk Hoekstra, Megan Dona...
Some hardy Earth microbes could survive long enough on Mars to complicate the search for alien life, according to a new study co-authored by University of Florida researchers.
Though scientists looking for life on Mars worry about contamination from stowaway spores clinging to spacecraft, th...
Title: HE 1015-2050: Discovery of a Hydrogen-deficient carbon star at high galactic latitude Authors: Aruna Goswami, Drisya Karinkuzhi, N. S. Shantikumar (1) ((1) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore.) Medium resolution spectral analysis of candidate Faint High Latitude Carbon (FH...
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