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Das Boot (German: Das Boot meaning "The Boat") is a 1981 German epic war film written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen, produced by Günter Rohrbach, and starring Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann. It has been exhibited both as a theatrical release and as a TV min...

South Africa plans to launch a low earth orbiting satellite in December this year for disaster monitoring and other purposes, the country's announced on Monday. The satellite, named Sumbandila which in local Tshivenda language means "Lead the way," will be launched from a submarine...

The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle has its maiden "flight" on February 18, 1977 atop a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) Read more

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Cecilia McGough's Pulsar Discovery For most people the thought of being a 'rocket scientist' would be daunting, but for 17-year-old Cecilia McGough it has simply been a goal. McGough, a senior at Strasburg High School, has taken every possible opportunity to realise her lifelong dream. After yea...

Ping pong ball 'satellites' to have balloon ride to edge of space A do-it-yourself space program is gearing up to return to the edge of Earth's atmosphere, floating above the world and the boundary between the sky and stars. All manner of payloads, a majority of them contained in ping pong balls creat...

Dig to reveal secrets of Dingwall 'Thing' The first ever excavation of a Viking assembly site on the Scottish mainland is being carried out in Dingwall this week to unearth the towns historical origins. The archaeologists digging in a trench at the Cromartie Memorial Car Park are hoping to find arte...

An hour before astronomical dusk ended, the point at which daylight fully surrenders, Rodger Fry had focused his 10-inch Meade telescope on Saturn. Venus, flaring in the west, was easy to spot but Saturn had been a challenge. He explained how he had aligned his telescope north and south, sought out V...

Title: NGC 1624-2: A slowly rotating, X-ray luminous Of?cp star with an extraordinarily strong magnetic field Authors: G.A. Wade, J. Maíz Apellaniz, F. Martins, V. Petit, J. Grunhut, N. R. Walborn, R.H. Barbá, M. Gagné, E. García-Melendo, J. Jose, A.F.J. Moffat, Y. Nazé, C. Neiner, A. Pellerin, M...

Galway's Sea2Sky Celebrates European Researcher's Night in Ireland Sea2Sky, organised by NUI Galway in collaboration with the Marine Institute, Galway Atlantaquaria and its new partner CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory in Cork, will showcase science on the grandest of scales themed around ma...

Following the stars Linda Sinkay, an insurance broker, has gone from virgin stargazer to insatiable amateur astronomer. And now she has teamed up with friend and fellow Rotarian Jim Goodenough to offer star-gazing entertainment at public and private events, from birthday parties to a recent fun...

Sunspots 11571 (bottom) and 11569 (top) captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar and IR-cut filters. Music via an Amiga 1200

Liz Bonnin (born 16 September 1975) is a French-born television presenter who has worked on television in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. She currently works for the BBC. Read more Liz Bonnin 5. January 2011

During the evening of Tuesday, September 16, 1997, observers in Australia, Asia, Europe, and Africa experienced a total lunar eclipse. The total phase, which begins at 6:15 pm (GMT), lasted for approximately 1 hour and 2 minutes Read more

A penumbral lunar eclipse will take place on September 16, 2016, the last of three lunar eclipses in 2016. Read more