Biggest Black Hole Blast Discovered Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered a quasar with the most energetic outflow ever seen, at least five times more powerful than any that have been observed to date. Quasars are extremely bright galactic centres powered by superma...
Title: Asteroseismology of the ZZ Ceti star HS 0507+0434B Authors: J.-N. Fu, N. Dolez, G. Vauclair, L. Fox Machado, S.-L. Kim, C. Li, L. Chen, M. Alvarez, J. Su, S. Charpinet, M. Chevreton, R. Michel, X.H. Yang, Y. Li, Y.P. Zhang, L. Molnar, E. Plachy The pulsating DA white dwarfs (ZZ Ceti stars) are g-...
On 5 March 1936, the prototype Supermarine Spitfire (K5054) took off on its first flight from Eastleigh Aerodrome (later Southampton Airport). At the controls was Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers, chief test pilot for Vickers (Aviation) Ltd., who was reported in the press as saying &quo...
China has launched its Chinasat 12 communication satellite into space, reports Xinhuanet. Conditions of the satellite are normal after it was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. Read more
A magnitude 14.5 Type-Ia supernova, 2012gx, was discovered on the 27th November, 2012, in the galaxy MCG -02-2-72. The supernova is located 6.9" West and 18.5" North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 00 38 01.75, Dec -13° 51' 39.5"
Christiaan Huygens, one of the more significant physicists during the last three centuries along Isaac Newton, was born on the 14th April 1629 at The Hague. Read more
Russell Alan Hulse (born November 28, 1950) is an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, shared with his thesis advisor Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr., "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation"...
Title: WASP-77 Ab: A transiting hot Jupiter planet in a wide binary system Authors: P. F. L. Maxted, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, A. P. Doyle, A. Fumel, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, F. Pepe, D. L. Pollacco, D. Queloz, D. Ségransan, B. Smalley, J. K. Southworth, A. M. S. Smith, A. H. M....
Title: Peculiar Motions in the Region of the Ursa Major Supercluster of Galaxies Authors: Flera G. Kopylova, Alexander I. Kopylov (Special Astrophysical Observatory of Russian Academy of Sciences) We have investigated the peculiar motions of clusters of galaxies in the Ursa Major (UMa) superc...
Life abounds in Antarctic lake sealed under ice It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at -13 °C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth - yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life. [url=http://www.nature.co...
The 400 - 890 metre wide asteroid 1994 XD will make a close pass (20.2 lunar distances, 0.0518 AU), travelling at 20.03 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th November, 2012 @ 12:19 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
James Donald "Wxb" Wetherbee (born November 27, 1952) is an American naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six Space Shuttle missions and is the only American to have commanded five spaceflight missions. Read more
Giovanni Giorgi (27 November 1871 - 19 August 1950) was an Italian electrical engineer who invented the Giorgi system of measurement, the precursor to the International System (SI). Read more
Walter Frederick Gale (27 November 1865 - 1 June 1945) was an Australian banker. Gale was born in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales. He had a strong interest in astronomy and built his first telescope in 1884. A crater on Mars, Gale Crater, was named in his honour. It was selected as the 2012 landing s...
27th November to 29th November 2012, London, United Kingdom Global MilSatCom is the leading military satellite communications conference & exhibition in Europe and, in our opinion, the best networking event of its kind in the world. This year's 14th annual event taking place in London in Nov...
