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Daniel Rutherford FRSE FRCPE FLS FSA(Scot) (1749-1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772. Read more

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (November 3, 39 AD - April 30, 65 AD), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba (modern-day Córdoba), in the Hispania Baetica. Despite his short life, he is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period. Read more

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The Moon captured on the 1st November with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Music via an Amiga 1200

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This animated sequence, composed of three images taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows a portion of Mare Serenitatis on the Moon. AMIE obtained the images on 18 March 2006 from distances between 1257 and 1213 kilometres from the surface...

Oceansat-2 will be ready for launch by the end of the current year. The new satellite will replace Oceansat-1, launched in 1998, for studying physical and biological aspects of the country's ocean resources. The new satellite will help identification of potential fishing zones, support sea...

Alexander Martin Lippisch (November 2, 1894 - February 11, 1976) was a German pioneer of aerodynamics. He made important contributions to the understanding of flying wings, delta wings and the ground effect. His most famous design is the Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket-powered interceptor. Read mo...

Gymnase de Morges, Switzerland November 2, 2012 Sylvia Ekström , an astronomer at the Observatory of the University of Geneva Read more

Title: Low-frequency variations of unknown origin in the Kepler Delta Scuti star KIC 5988140 = HD 188774 Authors: P. Lampens, A. Tkachenko, H. Lehmann, J. Debosscher, C. Aerts, P. G. Beck, S. Bloemen, N. Kochiashvili, A. Derekas, J. C. Smith, P. Tenenbaum, J. D. Twicken We used high-quality Kepler...

Title: X-ray properties of G308.3-1.4 and its central compact object Authors: K. A. Seo (1), C. Y. Hui (1), R. H. H. Huang (2), L. Trepl (3), T.-N. Lu (2), A. K. H. Kong (2), F. M. Walter (4) ((1) Chungnam National University, (2) National Tsing Hua University, (3) Universitaet Jena, (4) Stony Brook Uni...

A Next-Generation X-Ray Telescope Ready to Fly At the beginning of November, 2012 a NASA mission called FOXSI (for Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager) will launch from White Sands, N.M. to study these nanoflares. To do so, it will make use of a state-of-the-art x-ray telescope that will be able to fo...

Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico and around the world in other cultures. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. It is particularly celebrated in Mexico,...

Title: The most rapidly rotating He-strong emission line star: HR7355 Authors: Th. Rivinius (1), S. Stefl (1), R.H.D. Townsend (2), D. Baade (3) ((1) ESO - Chile, (2) Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware, (3) ESO - Garching) Using archival spectroscopic and photometric data, we sea...

Optical telescopes benefit from precision hyperboloids Hyperboloids are generally used in optical telescope systems where good off-axis performance is an important requirement. Optical Surfaces supplied hyperboloids have been at the heart of many deep space and earth observation satellit...