Glastonbury festival organiser Michael Eavis is remaining upbeat about the event despite forecasts predicting heavy thunderstorms over the weekend. Almost 100,000 festival-goers are already estimated to have arrived at his small farm in the Somerset village of Pilton for the year's ultimate...
Connections is a ten-episode documentary television series created, written and presented by science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science & Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (USA). It took an interdisciplinar...
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Gary McKinnon: May Blocks Extradition To US The mother of Gary McKinnon said she was "overwhelmed" when she learned he had won his 10-year battle against extradition to the US. Janis Sharp was speaking after the Home Secretary stopped the self-confessed computer hacker being sent to th...
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Something shakes northwest Louisiana Northwest Louisiana authorities are investigating the source of whatever shook people's residences and businesses about 11:40 p.m. Monday. The Webster sheriff's office now is entertaining the possibility that it may have been a meteorite, possibly in th...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications and the world's leading provider of high-power commercial satellites, today announced that it was selected to provide a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS), EchoStar XVI, to a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation. [...
Title: The host galaxy of the super-luminous SN 2010gx and limits on explosive nickel-56 production Authors: Ting-Wan Chen, Stephen J. Smartt, Fabio Bresolin, Andrea Pastorello, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Rubina Kotak, Matt McCrum, Morgan Fraser, Stefano Valenti Super-luminous supernovae hav...
New website provides updates of space radiation hazards on hourly basis Astrophysicists from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC) have come out with the first online system for predicting and forecasting the radiation environment in near-Earth, lunar, and Martian spac...
Stargazing at Tebbutt's at Windsor Stargazing will be held at the historical Tebbutt's observatory in Windsor on Saturday, October 20, 2012. Cost is $5 per person. Read more
Fort observatory to open Dec. 5 The David Thompson Astronomical Observatory will open Dec. 5 at Fort William Historical Park. Thompson, considered one of the greatest explorers in Canadian history, mapped nearly four million square kilometres of North America for the Northwest Company in the 18...
Title: IGR J16328-4726: a new candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient Authors: M. Fiocchi, V. Sguera, A. Bazzano, L. Bassani, A. J. Bird, L. Natalucci, P. Ubertini The unidentified source IGR J16328-4726 was covered with INTEGRAL observations for a long period (~9.8Ms) and was undetectable f...
The events surrounding the fall of the Peekskill meteorite on October 9th, 1992 are quite remarkable. Not only did the meteorite announce its arrival by hitting a parked car in suburban Peekskill, New York, but also the fireball that proceeded the fall of the meteorite was videotaped by at least 16 i...