Raghunath Anant Mashelkar (born January 1, 1943 in Mashel, Goa) is also known as Ramesh Mashelkar. He is the former Director General of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), a chain of 38 publicly funded industrial research and development institutions in India. Read more
Jule Gregory Charney (January 1, 1917 - June 16, 1981) was an American meteorologist who played an important role in developing weather prediction. He developed a set of equations (The Quasi-Geostrophic Vorticity Equation) for calculating the large-scale motions of planetary-scale waves. He...
Harriet Brooks (January 1, 1876 - April 17, 1933) was the first Canadian woman nuclear physicist. She is most famous for her research on nuclear transmutations and radioactivity. Ernest Rutherford, who guided her graduate work, regarded her as being next to Marie Curie in the calibre of her aptitu...
Title: HAT-P-42b and HAT-P-43b. Two Inflated Transiting Hot Jupiters from the HATNet Survey Authors: I. Boisse, J. Hartman, G. Bakos, K. Penev, Z. Csubry, B. Beky, D. Latham, A. Bieryla, G. Torres, G. Kovacs, L. Buchhave, T. Hansen, M. Everett, G. Esquerdo, T. Szklenar, E. Falco, A. Shporer, B. Ful...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 00:40:40 (UTC) on Thursday, June 7, 2007, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SSW of Lorengau, Manus Island, PNG, at a depth of 22.6 km. Location 3.382°S, 146.783°E
Sunspots 11640, 11638 and 11639 captured with a 100mm f5 refractor and Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter Cloudy conditions. Processed with AviStack2. Music via an Amiga 1200.
Bouvet Island is an uninhabited Antarctic volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,525 km south-southwest of South Africa. It is a dependent territory of Norway and, lying north of 60°S latitude, is not subject to the Antarctic Treaty. The centre of the island is an ice-filled crater of an ina...
The Sarah Jane Adventures is a British science fiction television series, produced by BBC Cymru Wales for CBBC, created by Russell T Davies and starring Elisabeth Sladen. The programme was a spin-off of the long-running BBC science fiction programme Doctor Who and focuses on the adventures of inv...
Satyendra Nath Bose FRS (1 January 1894 - 4 February 1974) was an Indian mathematician and physicist noted for his collaboration with Albert Einstein in developing a theory regarding the gaslike qualities of electromagnetic radiation. Read more
Gennadi Vasiliyevich Sarafanov (b. January 1, 1942 in Sinenkiye, Saratov Oblast, Russia - d. September 29, 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 15 spaceflight in 1974. This mission was intended to dock with the space station Salyut 3, but failed to do so after the docking system...
Abdul Ahad Momand (born January 1, 1959) is a former Afghan Air Force aviator who became the first Afghan in space when he spent nine days aboard the Mir space station in 1988 as a Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut. Along with Commander Vladimir Lyakhov and Flight Engineer Valery Polyakov, Momand was p...
Edwin Hubble: The Name Behind the Telescope Early next year the Hubble Space Telescope will receive its fifth visit from NASA space mechanics. Since its launch in 1990 The Hubble has done much for the advancement and popularity of astronomy, just as its namesake increased our knowledge of the night...
The public is invited to a presentation of "Astronomy and the Citizen Scientist" Friday, January 9 at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute. The program is part of PARIs monthly Evening at PARI series and will feature a presentation on the role the public can play in worldwide scie...
