Mercury-Atlas 5 was an American unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It was launched on November 29, 1961 with Enos the Chimp, a chimpanzee, aboard. The craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down off the coast of Puerto Rico. Read more
Alouette 2 was a Canadian research satellite launched at 04:48 UTC on November 29, 1965 by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. It was (like its predecessor Alouette 1, and Explorer 31) designed to explore the ionosphere. Read more
40th anniversary of Australia's first satellite It is now 40 years since the University of Adelaide played a key role in launching Australia's first satellite. Wresat, named after the former Weapons Research Establishment (WRE), was the name of the first Australian satellite, which was launche...
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (29 November 1711 - 20 February 1778) was an Italian scientist, the first woman to officially teach at a university in Europe. A 31 km crater on Venus honours her name, along with a high school (language, social sciences and music) and a city street in Bologna. Read more
Lambda Tauri is a triple star system in the constellation Taurus. The primary component, Lambda Tauri A, is a blue-white B-type main sequence dwarf with a mean apparent magnitude of +3.41. It has a luminosity of about 4,000 times that of the Sun and a radius of 6.6 times solar. The companion is a white A...
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1 14 Aldebaran 4.3S of Moon 16 9 Mars 3.9S of Moon
1 15 Moon at apogee 16 23 Pluto 0.0N of Moon Occn
2 1 Jupiter 0.8N of Moon Occn 17 4 Venus 3.8N of Spica
2 8 Moon furthest North (21.0) 17 16 Mercury inferior conjunction
7 LAST QUARTER 20 14 FIRST QUARTER
7 Mercury stationary 20 17 Neptu...
Title: Discovery of a Kiloparsec Scale X-ray/Radio Jet in the z=4.72 Quasar GB 1428+4217 Authors: C. C. Cheung, L. Stawarz, A. Siemiginowska, D. Gobeille, J. F. C. Wardle, D. E. Harris, D. A. Schwartz We report the discovery of a one-sided 3.6" (24 kpc, projected) long jet in the high-redshift...
Title: The Young Open Clusters King 12, NGC 7788, and NGC 7790: Pre-Main Sequence Stars and Extended Stellar Halos Authors: T. J. Davidge The stellar contents of the open clusters King 12, NGC 7788, and NGC 7790 are investigated using MegaCam images. Comparisons with isochrones yield an age < 20...
Title: Evidence for a magnetic neutron star in high mass X-ray binary 4U 2206+54 with INTEGRAL/IBIS observations Authors: W. Wang The hard X-ray source 4U 2206+54 is a peculiar high mass X-ray binary with a main-sequence donor star. Recent X-ray observations suggested that the compact object in 4...
Mysterious space object in Central Highlands skies solved A loud boom followed by a cloud of smoke in the sky had many Central Highlands residents taking a closer look on Monday. Many residents speculated the theory behind the mysterious object was a meteorite heading for Earth at the speed of sound...
Luke Howard FRS (28 November 1772 - 21 March 1864) was a British manufacturing chemist and an amateur meteorologist with broad interests in science. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Read mor...
Karen Sheila Gillan (born 28 November 1987) is a Scottish actress and former model who is best known for her portrayal of Amelia "Amy" Pond in the British science fiction series Doctor Who from 2010 until 2012. Read more
Panayotis Varotsos (born 1947) is a Greek physicist and full professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Athens since 1986, notable for his VAN method to predict earthquakes. His group claims the ability to identify electromagnetic signals that are precursors to earthquakes. The...
AlSAT-1 is the first Algerian satellite and it is part of a group of satellites collectively known as the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. The satellite was built by a group of engineers from Surrey Satellite Technology and CNTS. It was the first DMC satellite to be launched, in November 2002. Re...
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