Title: Observations and modelling of the massive young star AFGL 4176: From large scales to small Authors: Paul Boley, Roy van Boekel, Hendrik Linz, Jeroen Bouwman, Andrey Sobolev, Thomas Henning We present spatially-resolved mid-infrared interferometric observations of the massive young s...
Title: Karl Rakos - Obituary Authors: Andrew P. Odell Professor Dr. Karl Dragutin Rakos passed away on October 31, 2011 one day before his 86th birthday. With that the Vienna astronomical community lost a valued researcher, university teacher and co-founder of modern astrophysical research at t...
Title: A Broad Iron Line in LMC X-1 Authors: James F. Steiner, Rubens C. Reis, Andrew C. Fabian, Ronald A. Remillard, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Lijun Gou, Ryan Cooke, Laura W. Brenneman, Jeremy S. Sanders We present results from a deep Suzaku observation of the black hole in LMC X-1, supplemented by coi...
The Panic of 1873 triggered a severe international economic depression in both Europe and the United States that lasted until 1879, and even longer in some countries. The depression was known as the Great Depression until the 1930s, but is now known as the Long Depression. The panic was caused by the...
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 - September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951. Read more
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban citizen and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanic and first Black person in space. Tamayo, along with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Rom...
Adrien-Marie Legendre (18 September 1752 - 10 January 1833) was a French mathematician. He made important contributions to statistics, number theory, abstract algebra and mathematical analysis. The Moon crater Legendre is named after him. Read more
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (18 September 1819 - 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation. Read more
Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (September 18, 1932, Tomsk - October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed t...
William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden (18 September 1911 - 18 May 1995) was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well as a nobleman in the Dutch nobility. Read more
Clement Lindley Wragge (18 September 1852 - 10 December 1922), was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, but moved to Oakamoor, Staffordshire as a child. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological So...
I Dream of Jeannie is a 1960s American sitcom with a fantasy premise. The show starred Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, with whom she falls in love and eventually marries. Produced by Screen Gems, the show originally aired from Septembe...
The Jun'yo Maru was a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was sunk in 1944 by the British submarine HMS Tradewind, resulting in the loss of over 5,000 lives. Read more
Old Faithful is a cone geyser located in Wyoming, in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. On the afternoon of September 18, 1870, the members of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition travelled down the Firehole River from the Kepler Cascades and entered the Upper Geyser Basin. Th...
