DIY Mirror Telescope Made With Vinyl Pipes and 21-inch Pot This is the Musashi 500, a do-it-yourself mirror telescope made of vinyl chloride pipes, a 21-inch metal pot and some custom-made wood and metal parts. Designed to be easily transported in five different modules, this 5.9-foot long, 44-po...
According to Chinese state media, a lunar satellite will transmit 30 pieces of Chinese music to Earth next year.
The satellite, which has a budget of 1.4-billion yuan, is part of China's three-phase lunar project, and is designed to obtain three-dimensional images of the moon's surface and an...
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American physicist and shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1997 with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. He is of Italian and Welsh descent and a Methodist. Read more
Guy Fawkes Night, also known as Guy Fawkes Day and Bonfire Night, is an annual commemoration observed on 5 November, primarily in Great Britain. Historians have often suggested that Guy Fawkes Day served as a Protestant replacement for the ancient Celtic and Nordic festivals of Samhain, pagan eve...
Famous astronomer is Otley Science Festival star One of the UK's most distinguished astronomers will bring the mysteries of the stars to Otley in November. Professor Ian Robson will visit the town to talk about 'Astronomy on the beaches of Hawaii'. The professor is one of the UK's most distinguishe...
The Honourable Sir Charles Kuen Kao, GBM, KBE, FRS, FREng (born 4 November 1933) is a Chinese-born American and British physicist who pioneered in the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications. Kao, known as the "Godfather of Broadband", "Father of Fibre Optics&...
Stefano Cristiani, (born 4 November 1958) is an Italian astronomer and astrophysicist. The main areas of his research are: extragalactic astronomy, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, quasars, advanced data analysis methods. Read more
Alfred Lee Loomis (November 4, 1887 - August 11, 1975) was an American attorney, investment banker, philanthropist, scientist/physicist, pioneer in military radar usages, inventor of the LORAN or Long Range Navigation System, and lifelong patron of scientific research. Read more
Henry George "Harry" Ferguson (4 November 1884 - 25 October 1960) was an Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-whee...
The 1400 metre wide asteroid 1989 VA will make a close pass (64.0 lunar distances, 0.1644 AU), travelling at 17.02 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th November, 2012 @ 09:40 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
Venera 14 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera 14 was identical to the Venera 13 spacecraft and built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity and launched 5 days apart. It was launched on 4 November 1981 at 05:31:00 UTC and Venera 13 on 30 October 19...
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, formerly known as the Clinton Pile and X-10 Pile, was the world's second artificial nuclear reactor (after Enrico Fermi's Chicago Pile) and was the first reactor designed and built for continuous operation. The X...
The final test of Operation Fishbowl was detonated at 2130 (9:30 p.m. local Johnston Island time) on 3 November 1962 (the time and date was officially recorded as 0730 UTC, 4 November 1962). It was launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a lower altitude than the other Fishbowl tests. A...
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