Title: A new L-dwarf member of the moderately metal-poor triple system HD 221356 Authors: B. Gauza, V. J. S. Béjar, R. Rebolo, K. Peña Ramírez, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, A. Pérez-Garrido, N. Lodieu, D. J. Pinfield, R. G. McMahon, E. González-Solares, J. P. Emerson, S. Boudreault, M. Banerji We report o...
Title: An Eccentric Eclipsing Binary: CGAur Authors: Esin Sipahi, Hasan Ali Dal In this study, we present CG Aur's photometric observations obtained in the observing seasons 2011 and 2012, the first available multi-colour light curves. Their shape indicates that the system is an Algol binary. T...
A cave painting in the Lascaux Grotto in France dating back to the lower palaeolithic period - some 200,000 years ago, shows a figure that appears to be pinching his nostrils shut and pointing to a dog-like creature drawn without a nose.
This may depict the oldest joke in the world.
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The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth. Read more
Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power (ATBIP), nicknamed "Father of All Bombs" (FOAB), is a Russian-made air-delivered/land-activated thermobaric weapon. In describing the bomb's destructive power, Russian deputy armed forces chief of staff Alexander Rukshin was quote...
Luna 16 (Ye-8-5 series) was an unmanned space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program. Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. Read more
In 1959, a spaceship fell out of the lunar sky and hit the ground near the Sea of Serenity. The ship itself was shattered, but its mission was a success. Luna 2 from the Soviet Union had became the first manmade object to "land" on the Moon.
This may seem hard to believe, but Luna 2 started a trend: Cras...
STS-47 was the 50th Space Shuttle mission of the program, as well as the second mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission mainly involved conducting experiments in life and material sciences. Launch date: 12 September 1992 Read more
STS-48 was a Space Shuttle mission that launched on 12 September 1991, from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. The orbiter was Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary payload was the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite. The mission landed on 18 September at 12:38 am at Edwards Air Force Base on runway 22...
The Russian Federal Space Agency officially announced that Iranian born Anoushe Ansari would travel in space on the Soyuz aircraft next spring. It is not an official Russian-Iranian flight, since Ms. Ansari, a U.S. citizen, is to fund the flight on her own to become the first female space to...
Irène Joliot-Curie (12 September 1897 - 17 March 1956) was a French scientist, the daughter of Marie Skodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Jointly with her husband, Joliot-Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial...
Richard David Gill (born 11 September 1951) is a mathematician born in the United Kingdom who has lived in the Netherlands since 1974. As a probability theorist and statistician, Gill is known for his research on counting processes and survival analysis, some of which has appeared in an advanced te...
