* Astronomy

Asteroid (352) Gisela is at Opposition on the 2nd December, 2012. Magnitude: 11.3 Distance to Earth: 0.936 au Distance to Sun: 1.922 au

Indra Lal Roy, DFC (2 December 1898 - 22 July 1918) was the first Indian flying ace. He served in the First World War with the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force. Read more

Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first human-made nuclear reactor. CP-1 was built on a rackets court, under the abandoned west stands of the original Alonzo Stagg Field stadium, at the University of Chicago. The first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was initiated in CP-1 on December...

The Leipzig University was founded on December 2, 1409 by Frederick I, Elector of Saxony and his brother William II, Margrave of Meissen, and originally comprised four faculties. Since its inception the university has engaged in teaching and research for over 600 years without interruption. Rea...

An 89% Full Waning Gibbous Moon

Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a 259-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973. Read more

STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on 2 December 1993 from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. Read more

The first lighthouse on Eddystone Rocks was an octagonal wooden structure built by Henry Winstanley. Construction started in 1696 and the light was lit on 14 November 1698. Read more

Title: Characterising two solar-type Kepler subgiants with asteroseismology: KIC10920273 and KIC11395018 Authors: G. Dogan, T. S. Metcalfe, S. Deheuvels, M. P. Di Mauro, P. Eggenberger, O. L. Creevey, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, M. Pinsonneault, A. Frasca, C. Karoff, S. Mathur, S. G. Sousa, I. M. Br...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a large prominence on the Sun. Expand (578kb, 1024 x 1024) Credit SDO

Tadeá Hájek z Hájku (1 December 1525 - 1 September 1600, both in Prague), also known as Tadeá Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and a Bohemian astronomer. The lunar crater Hagecius and the asteroid 1995 Ha...

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1 December 1580 - 24 June 1637), often known simply as Peiresc, or by the Latin form of his name , was a French astronomer, antiquary and savant, who maintained a wide correspondence with scientists, and was a successful organiser of scientific inquiry. Read more

Title: Spitzer Observations of the Prototypical Extremely Red Objects HR10 and LBDS53W091: Separating Dusty Starbursts from Old Elliptical Galaxies Authors: Daniel Stern (1), Ranga-Ram Chary (2), Peter Eisenhardt (1), Leonidas Moustakas (1) ((1) JPL/Caltech, (2) SSC/Ca...

Title: ALMA observations of rho-Oph 102: grain growth and molecular gas in the disk around a young Brown Dwarf Authors: L. Ricci, L. Testi, A. Natta, A. Scholz, I. de Gregorio-Monsalvo We present ALMA continuum and spectral line observations of the young Brown Dwarf rho-Oph 102 at about 0.89 mm and 3...

'Spy satellite' crashes in Dadu The military authorities have taken into custody the heavy pieces of engine and other metallic material, considered to be of a spy satellite or a missile in Kachho and surrounding areas of Johi. The people got panicked as it crashed on land with a big bang rocking the ar...