Genialinius Gennatus was one fine duck hunter. In the third century , he recorded his prowess in high Latin on a stone tablet that he dedicated to Jupiter. That and a hefty donation probably ensured that the tablet won display in the temple to the Roman god in the settlement then called Colonia. Five or...
Kent State faculty and graduate students are among a team of physicists who recreated the material essence of the universe as it would have been mere microseconds after the Big Bang—a quark-gluon plasma.
This huge insight allows scientists to study matter in its earliest form and comes from an...
Seeing black holes and beyond Scientists at MIT and other institutions are using a method called VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) to link a group of radio telescopes spread across the globe into what is, in effect, a telescope the size of our planet. Although the technique of VLBI is not new,...
The 3 - 6 metre wide asteroid 2017 GM made a close pass (0.04 LD, 0.0001 AU), travelling at 18.50 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th April 2017 @ 10:32 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
"Doggerland" is the now-drowned lands in the coastal plain that was formed in the North Sea when sea level dropped during the most recent glacial maximum.
The Doggerland terrain was available for settlement by early man, until it was buried beneath rising sea levels perhaps as recent a...
Title: MOA-2012-BLG-505Lb: A super-Earth mass planet in the Galactic bulge Author: Masayuki Nagakane, Takahiro Sumi, Naoki Koshimoto, David P. Bennett, Ian A. Bond, Nicholas J. Rattenbury, Daisuke Suzuki, Fumio Abe, Yuichiro Asakura, Richard K. Barry, Aparna Bhattacharya, M. Donachie, Aki...
New findings show the planet is more complex and active than previously believed - at least in certain places.
Finding those places, however, turns out to be trickier than just looking at landforms like river valleys or lakebeds or searching for specific minerals.
"Context is everythin...
Title: The supersoft X-ray source in V5116 Sgr I. The high resolution spectra Author: G. Sala, J.U. Ness, M. Hernanz, J. Greiner Classical novae occur on the surface of an accreting white dwarf in a binary system. After ejection of a fraction of the envelope and when the expanding shell becomes optic...
Title: HIP 21539 is not a past very close neighbour of the Sun Author: F. Crifo, C. Soubiran, G. Jasniewicz, D. Katz, P. Sartoretti, P. Panuzzo Aims: A previous study claimed that the star HIP 21539 passed close to the Sun, at a distance of 1.9 pc, around 0.14 Myr ago. We show that this is not the case. Meth...
Title: The Cosmological Constant in the Quantum Multiverse Authors: Grant Larsen, Yasunori Nomura, H.L.L. Roberts Recently, a new framework for describing the multiverse has been proposed which is based on the principles of quantum mechanics. The framework allows for well-defined predictio...
Asteroid (387) Aquitania is at Opposition in constellation the Aquila on the 10th July, 2013. Magnitude: 9.7 Distance to Earth: 1.086 AU Distance to Sun center: 2.091 AU
The magnitude 15.9 asteroid (249) Ilse will occults the magnitude 2.9 star delta Cap (HD 207098) in the constellation Capricornus, at 03:16 UT The 0.7 second daylight event occurs over SE Australia Position (2000): RA 21 47 02.4451, Dec -16 07 38.229
The Variable Star RS Librae is at maximum in the early hours of the 21st April, 2011. Magnitude range: 7.0 - 13.0 V Period: 217.7 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 15 24 19.7912, Dec -22° 54' 39.871"
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2017 FQ127 made a close pass (2.0 LD, 0.0053 AU), travelling at 14.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd April 2017 @ 15:51 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: Creation of cosmic structure in the complex galaxy cluster merger Abell 2744 Authors: J. Merten, D. Coe, R. Dupke, R. Massey, A. Zitrin, E.S. Cypriano, N. Okabe, B. Frye, F. Braglia, Y. Jimenez-Teja, N. Benitez, T. Broadhurst, J. Rhodes, M. Meneghetti, L.A. Moustakas, L. Sodre Jr., J. Krick...
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