Is there any truth to weather sayings, or are they merely a whimsical interpretation of reality? Some of the earliest examples of weather lore date back to the Bible. With farmers and mariners so dependent on the weather, we have undoubtedly been looking for signs from the heavens since the dawn of ma...
Latest satellite to aid environmental protection China will launch the Gaofen 5 high-resolution Earth observation satellite in September to help with environmental protection efforts, an official overseeing the program said. Tong Xudong, a senior official at the State Administration of Sci...
This image in representative colours shows a hot bed of gas, dust, and newly formed stars known as the Cygnus Wall[url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0506/goldenwall_sheri...
Stargazers stunned as meteor lights up Queensland skies Stargazers have been treated to the spectacular sight of a meteor blazing across the night sky from Bundaberg to the Gold Coast. Deslee Oldham was recording the sunset from her Runaway Bay balcony yesterday when she spotted the "big and brigh...
Volcano Near Santorini Attracts Gold Greek scientists from the University of Athens and the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), who explored the Kolumbo volcano's bottom at an underwater 500-meter depth, found that rare phenomena never observed in the world before have been taking plac...
Robert William Taylor (February 10, 1932 - April 13, 2017), known as Bob Taylor, was an American Internet pioneer, who led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies. Read more
(11949) Kagayayutaka / HIP 42353 event on 2017 Apr 18, 05:40 UT On 2017 Apr 18 UT, the 15 km diameter asteroid (11949) Kagayayutaka will occult a 6.5 mag star in the constellation Cancer for observers along a path across SW USA, Mexico. Read more
NGC 4016 (also Arp 305, MCG 5-28-63, UGC 6954 and PGC 37687) is a magnitude +13.8 barred spiral galaxy located 158 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with the neighbouring galaxy NGC 4017: these two galaxies are listed as Arp 3...
Title: The Nearby Type Ibn Supernova 2015G: Signatures of Asymmetry and Progenitor Constraints Author: Isaac Shivvers, WeiKang Zheng, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Jon Mauerhan, Alexei V. Filippenko, Nathan Smith, Ryan J. Foley, Paolo Mazzali, Atish Kamble, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Raffaella Margutti...
When a spacecraft was launched to search for water and life on Mars on Aug. 12, some scientists also cast their eyes on the more remote Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, with the hope that the ice-covered sa...
Deep Gemini imaging of the cluster of galaxies Hydra I (also known as Abell 1060) at a distance of 54 Mpc (176 million light-years) has revealed an abundance of massive luminous metal-rich globular clusters that appears to impersonate ultra-compact dwarf galaxies. This is the richest population...
Birth of 'new Saturn moon' witnessed Scientists say they have discovered what could be the birth of a new moon in the rings of Saturn. Informally named Peggy, the object would become the 63rd moon in Saturn's orbit - if confirmed. The evidence comes from a black-and-white image of the outermost ring c...
Birth of 'new Saturn moon' witnessed Scientists say they have discovered what could be the birth of a new moon in the rings of Saturn. Informally named Peggy, the object would become the 63rd moon in Saturn's orbit - if confirmed. The evidence comes from a black-and-white image of the outermost ring c...
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