Title: SBS 0846+513: a new gamma-ray emitting Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy Authors: F. D'Ammando (Dip. di Fisica, Univ. Perugia, INAF-IRA, CIFS), M. Orienti (Dip. di Astronomia, Univ. Bologna, INAF-IRA), J. Finke (U. S. Naval Research Laboratory), C. M. Raiteri (INAF-OATo), E. Angelakis (MPI...
Title: Magnetic fields in classical Be stars Authors: R. Yudin, S. Hubrig, M. Pogodin, I. Savanov, M. Schoeller, G. Peters, M. Cure We report the results of our study of magnetic fields in a sample of Be stars using spectropolarimetric data obtained at the European Southern Observatory with the mul...
'Red rain' flummoxes Madikeri residents Bagavathinagar, Mahadevpet and other extensions here experienced "red rain" on Tuesday from 7am to 8am. A science teacher of Gundurao Extension, B Veena, collected some rain water. She showed it to her school principal Ponnamma of General Thi...
Operation Hurricane was the test of the first British atomic device on 3 October 1952. A plutonium implosion device was detonated in the lagoon between the Montebello Islands, Western Australia.Read more
Newberry Volcano (with Newberry Caldera) is a large potentially active shield volcano located 40 miles (64 km) east of the Cascade Range and about 32 km southeast of Bend, Oregon. It is not a typical shield volcano. In addition to erupting basaltic lavas, it also has erupted andesitic and even rhyol...
Expand (800 x 600)Expand (800 x 600) Sunspots 11579 (top right), 11582, and 11585 (bottom), captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Green, Solar and IR-cut filters. Music via an Amiga 1200
Exoplanets form never-seen-before celestial alignment The heavens have aligned in a way never seen before, with two exoplanets overlapping as they cross their star. The phenomenon is so new it doesn't yet have a name. Teruyuki Hirano of the University of Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues used data fro...
Website calls on people to become 'bat detectives' A website is calling on citizen scientists to help researchers monitor and record Europe's bat population. The Bat Detective website needs people to help identify bat calls to help develop automated identification tools. [url=http://www.bbc...
UFO case solved in Cincinnati For a few days, the strange case of the Cincinnati Lights intrigued UFO fans, but it looks as if the person who took the original video has come up with the likeliest answer: The spooky lights floating through the sky are best explained as skydivers doing a show during a foo...
The launch campaign is now in Day 17 (of 180 days) - as you can imagine, preparing a 20-tonne vehicle means there is a lot of logistics work to be carried out before you can really start. We have the opportunity to store some items here at Centre Spatiale Guyanais (CSG) in Kourou between campaigns, but a l...
Title: IC 4663: The first unambiguous [WN] Wolf-Rayet central star of a planetary nebula Authors: B. Miszalski (SAAO/SALT), P. A. Crowther (Sheffield), O. De Marco (Macquarie), J. Köppen (Strasbourg/ISU/Kiel), A. F. J. Moffat (Montréal/CRAQ), A. Acker (Strasbourg), T. C. Hillwig (Valparais...
Astronomers have discovered white dwarf stars with pure carbon atmospheres. These stars possibly evolved in a sequence astronomers didn't know before. They may have evolved from stars that are not quite massive enough to explode as supernovae but are just on the borderline. All but the most massi...
Orbital elements:
2012 SY49 Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 334.30947 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52113192 Peri. 84.12092 -0.00394629 -0.99998975
a 1.5293408 Node 6.10651 +0.90901792 -0.00451262
e 0.5575811 Incl. 1.19603 +0.41673835 +0.00037386
P 1.89 H 25.7 G 0...
Title: CFHTLenS: The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey Authors: Catherine Heymans, Ludovic Van Waerbeke, Lance Miller, Thomas Erben, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Henk Hoekstra, Thomas D. Kitching, Yannick Mellier, Patrick Simon, Christopher Bonnett, Jean Coupon, Liping Fu, Joachi...
Title: A Carbon-rich Mira variable in a globular cluster: A stellar merger Authors: Michael W. Feast, John W. Menzies, Patricia A. Whitelock The membership of Matsunaga's variable 1, a carbon-rich, mass-losing, Mira variable, in the globular cluster Lynga 7 is discussed on the basis of radial ve...
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