Project Diana, named for the Roman moon goddess Diana - goddess of the hunt, wild animals and the moon - was a project of the US Army Signal Corps to bounce radio signals off the moon and receive the reflected signals. Today called EME (Earth-Moon-Earth), this was the first attempt to "touch&quo...
Otona no Chogokin Saturn V This exquisitely accurate 1/144-scale reproduction is based on many specialised documents and other data. In addition, during development of this product, Bandai sought and received the full cooperation of the web site "Apollo Maniacs," a favourite of Apo...
The Braer Storm of January 1993 is the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic ocean. Developing as a weak frontal wave on January 8, 1993, the system moved rapidly northeast developing at a moderate pace. The combination of the absorption of a second low-pressure ar...
Title: Planetary and Lunar ephemerides, INPOP10A Authors: A. Fienga, H. Manche, P. Kuchynka, J. Laskar, M. Gastineau The Planetary and Lunar ephemerides INPOP10a version has several improvements in the fitting process, the data sets used in the fit and in the general features of the solution. No...
Title: Luminous Blue Variables as the progenitors of supernovae with quasi-periodic radio modulations
Authors: Rubina Kotak (ESO), Jorick S. Vink (Keele University)
The interaction between supernova ejecta and circumstellar matter, arising from previous episodes o...
Title: Kappa Fornaci, a triple radio-star Authors: Andrei Tokovinin Bright and nearby (22pc) solar-type dwarf Kappa Fornaci (HIP 11072) is a triple system. The close pair of M-type dwarfs Ba,Bb with a tentative period of 3.7 days moves around the main component A on a 26-year orbit. The mass of the &...
The Coldest Brown Dwarf Catalogued as WISE 1828+2650, this brown dwarf lies within 40 light-years of the Sun and is currently the coldest brown dwarf known. Brown dwarfs are roughly the size of the planet Jupiter. WISE 1828+2650, assigned to spectral class Y, has the estimated temperature of a war...
Peter Frank George Twinn (9 January 1916 - 29 October 2004) was a British mathematician, World War II codebreaker and entomologist. Twinn was the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Rea...
The Battle of Bear Valley was a small engagement fought in 1918 between a band of Yaquis and a detachment of United States Army soldiers. Though the conflict was merely a skirmish, it was the last time the United States Army engaged hostile native Americans in combat and thus has been seen as one of the f...
Michael Mark Woolfson (born 9 January 1927) is a British physicist and planetary scientist. His research interests lie in the fields of x-ray crystallography, biophysics and the formation of stars and planets. Read more
Professor Severus Snape (9 January, 1960 - 2 May, 1998) was a half-blood wizard who was the son of the witch Eileen Snape (née Prince) and Muggle Tobias Snape. Read more
An Agonalia or Agonia was an obscure archaic religious observance celebrated in ancient Rome several times a year, in honour of various divinities. An Agonium occurs on January 9 in the Fasti Praenestini, albeit in mutilated form. Read more
Rapidly Spinning Star Vega has Cool Dark Equator
Strong darkening observed around the equator of Vega suggests that the fifth brightest star in Earth's sky has a huge temperature difference of 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit from its cool equatorial region to its hot poles.
Models of th...
Title: Vertical Atmospheric Structure in a Variable Brown Dwarf: Pressure-dependent Phase Shifts in Simultaneous Hubble Space Telescope-Spitzer Light Curves Authors: Esther Buenzli, Daniel Apai, Caroline V. Morley, Davin Flateau, Adam P. Showman, Adam Burrows, Mark S. Marley, Nikole K. L...
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