An intense star-forming region that produces a combined mass of more than one thousand solar masses a year has been found 12.8 billion light-years from Earth. The so-called 'hyper-starburst' is part of a young, quasar-containing galaxy. Because it is so far away, we can only see how the galaxy appe...
Orbital elements:
2012 UU68 Earth MOID = 0.0057 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 239.56985 (2000.0) P Q
n 1.08067220 Peri. 292.77409 -0.89500732 -0.44167116
a 0.9404594 Node 221.08863 +0.43609479 -0.83706334
e 0.2282221 Incl. 5.44442 +0.09371887 -0.32288009
P 0.91 H 23....
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers announces the launch of New Space, the only international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to space innovation. This groundbreaking publication facilitates the emerging multidisciplinary opportunities for space-based collaborations of industry, ac...
Title: An obscured cluster associated with the HII region RCW173 Authors: Amparo Marco, Ignacio Negueruela (University of Alicante, Spain) The discovery of several clusters of red supergiants towards l=24-30 deg has triggered interest in this area of the Galactic plane, where lines of sight ar...
SwRI to build miniature solar observatory for manned suborbital flight Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received funding from NASA to build a miniature, portable solar observatory for developing and testing innovative instrumentation in suborbital flight. The SwRI Solar Instrument...
Orbital elements: 2009 UQ5 Earth MOID = 0.1244 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 24.62482 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35075720 Peri. 174.02066 +0.84344957 -0.53624067 a 1.9912769 Node 218.46386 +0.49070714 +0.79346860 e 0.4385560 Incl. 2.97011 +0.21863059 +0.28784286 P 2.81 H 24.6 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...
Title: Structure of Abell 1995 from optical and X-ray data: a galaxy cluster with an elongated radio halo Authors: W. Boschin, M. Girardi, R. Barrena Abell 1995 is a puzzling galaxy cluster hosting a powerful radio halo, but it has not yet been recognised as a obvious cluster merger, as usually expec...
On Wednesday, April 27th, Tartu Old Observatory celebrates its 200th anniversary and opens doors as a modern museum to visitors of all ages. The opening day offers a retrospective spectacle as well as planetarium shows and several exciting workshops. In the evening, the university symphony orch...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 09:08:50 (UTC) on Thursday, August 11, 2005 located South-east of the Loyalty Islands.
Location 22.293°S, 169.904°E
Queens University Belfast is one of the founding members of the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) Project. While the prototype camera, WASP0, was constructed in 2000, the Project has its roots to development work at the Isaac Newton Group in the mid-1990's through the CoCAM instruments. [url=...
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Tuellmann et al.; Optical: NASA/AURA/STScIA new study unveils NGC 604, the largest region of star formation in the nearby galaxy M33, in its first deep, high-resolution view in X-rays. This composite image from Chandra X-ray Observatory data (colored blue), com...
Weird weather is predicted in the UK this week and could include "blood rain". "Blood rain" a term used for rain carrying sand from deserts. When the rain dries off it leaves a dusty residue which can sometimes be a reddish colour, hence the name. It is capable of coating houses,...
The Smurfs (French: Les Schtroumpfs) is a Belgian comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, created and first introduced as a series of comic strips by the Belgian cartoonist Peyo (pen name of Pierre Culliford) on October 23, 1958. Read more...
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (c. 23 October or November 64/63 BC - 12 BC) was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and defence minister to Octavian, the future Emperor Caesar Augustus and father-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, maternal grandfather of the Emper...
William David Coolidge (October 23, 1873 - February 3, 1975) was an American physicist, who made major contributions to X-ray machines. He was the director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and a vice-president of the corporation. He was also famous for the invention of "ductile t...
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