Aspiring UAE's Female Space Explorers To Join Space Centre Training After two successful editions, the region's only space exploration programme is turning its attention to girls between the ages of 12 and 18 who aspire to be engineers, scientists, or even astronauts in the near future. Director...
Title: Detection of an exoplanet around the evolved K giant HD 66141 Authors: B.-C. Lee, D. E. Mkrtichian, I. Han, M.-G. Park, K.-M. Kim Aims. We have been carrying out a precise radial velocity (RV) survey for K giants to search for and study the origin of the lowamplitude and long-periodic RV variat...
Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430), also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius (present-day Annaba, Algeria). He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived i...
Einstein Observatory (HEAO-2) was the first fully imaging X-ray telescope put into space and the second of NASA's three High Energy Astrophysical Observatories. The Einstein Observatory, HEAO-2, was launched on November 13, 1978, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an Atlas-Centaur SLV-3D boo...
The Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland. Opened: November 13, 1927 Read more
The Caister Lifeboat Disaster of 13 November 1901 occurred off the coast of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England. Events took place during what became known as the "Great Storm" which caused havoc down the East coasts of England and Scotland. Read more
The Roman Feast of Feronia is celebrated on the Ides of November. In ancient Roman religion, Feronia was a goddess broadly associated with fertility and abundance. She was especially honored among plebeians and freedmen. Her festival, the Feroniae, was November 13, during the Ludi Plebeii (&quo...
The Nevado del Ruiz, also known as La Mesa de Herveo (English: Table of Herveo) or Kumanday in the language of the local pre-Columbian indigenous people, is a volcano located on the border of the departments of Caldas and Tolima in Colombia, about 129 kilometres west of the capital city Bogotá. The Ne...
The world is looking up this year - and Tasmania is a good place to do this because it is literally heavenly for astronomers. And because 2009 is the International year of Astronomy, there will be global interest in our night-sky treasures. This year there is expected to be an increase in tourists comi...
Aaron Putnam, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, is leading a field expedition to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan to examine links among past climate, glaciers and water resources in the Himalaya. [url=http://scientistatwork.b...
Wade Davis' Everest book wins Samuel Johnson Prize A book about explorer George Mallory's attempt to conquer Everest has been named winner of this year's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Wade Davis' book Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest will receive the £20...
Scientists to gather at Western University for Canadian Space Summit The annual Canadian Space Summit is a gathering of the worlds biggest and brightest space scientists, and this year will be hosted by Western University for the first time. [url=http://metronews.ca/news/london/436263/sci...
RSPB's Beckingham Marshes wildlife reserve opens A wetland area the size of 100 football pitches which is designed to attract wildlife has opened to the public. Read more
Ten years ago this month, John Howard's Minister for Veteran Affairs, Danna Vale, launched a searchable internet database known as the World War 2 Nominal Roll. It was intended to be a virtual war memorial, listing all Australians who served in World War II as one of the ways to honour the nation's ann...
