* Astronomy

Scientist wins $300,000 prize for looking at nothing Despite it being invisible, dark matter has been placed on the galactic map by astronomer Ken Freeman - in the process placing him among international astronomy's brightest stars. Professor Freeman's work established there is substantially...

On the Meteor of the 2nd of NovemberWilliam Betham, George A. Hamilton and Robert MallettPage 396 of 396-404 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20520330

The M1 is a north-south motorway in England primarily connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford. While the M1 is considered to be the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, the first road to be built to motorway standard in the country was the Presto...

Orbital elements: 2012 ST9 Earth MOID = 0.0634 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 324.20042 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35919385 Peri. 308.06201 -0.53849105 -0.84253451 a 1.9599732 Node 174.47348 +0.80866287 -0.52098245 e 0.6619822 Incl. 7.61782 +0.23683698 -0.13679505 P 2.74 H 19.8...

The 30 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2010 VU98 will make a close pass (17.9 lunar distances, 0.0461 AU), travelling at 10.21 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st October, 2011 @ 09:11 UT ±01:23. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Up the long and winding Angeles Crest Highway, past a thicket of tall television antennas, sits what David Jurasevich calls "a monument to astronomy." "So many important discoveries about our universe - they all started right there," Jurasevich says, pointing to a domed wh...

Asteroid 5535 Annefrank is an inner main belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1942. It is named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp (the name was not chosen until about 1995). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

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Nereidum Montes helps unlock Mars' glacial past On 6 June, the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express revisited the Argyre basin as featured in our October release, but this time aiming at Nereidum Montes, some 380 km northeast of Hooke crater. The stunning rugged terrain of Nereidum...

Title: EC 10246-2707: a new eclipsing sdB + M dwarf binary Authors: B. N. Barlow, D. Kilkenny, H. Drechsel, B. H. Dunlap, D. O'Donoghue, S. Geier, R. G. O'Steen, J. C. Clemens, A. P. LaCluyze, D. E. Reichart, J. B. Haislip, M. C. Nysewander, K. M. Ivarsen We announce the discovery of a new eclipsing hot s...

Meteor falls from sky near Stanwood[url=http://www.king5.com/news/local/Meteors-spotted-falling-from-...

Sunspots 11602, 11599 and 11598 captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam + Solar filter

CALIFA: The local extragalactic universe unveiled The Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area survey (CALIFA survey), that counts with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), announces today its first public release of data, offering an unprecedented detailed view...

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy was first discovered in November 2003 by an international team of French, Italian, British and Australian astronomers. Although closer to the Earth than the centre of the galaxy itself, the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy was difficult to detect as it is located behind the pla...

Nancy Jan Davis (born November 1, 1953 as Nancy Jan Smotherman, later assuming the name of her stepfather (Davis)) is a former American astronaut. A veteran of three space flights, Dr. Davis has logged over 673 hours in space. Dr. Davis is now retired from NASA. Read more[spoiler][video=http://w...