* Astronomy

Amalthea was discovered by the exceptionally keen eyesight of American astronomer Edward Barnard in 1892 using the 36 inch (91 cm) refractor telescope at Lick Observatory. This was the first discovery of a Jovian moon since Galileo's discovery in 1610. Barnard's dis...

Feng Kang (September 9, 1920 - August 17, 1993) was a Chinese mathematician and scientist. Read more

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of al...

Joseph Mason Baldwin (9 September 1878 - 6 July 1945) was Victorian government astronomer 1920-1943. He was chief assistant at the Melbourne Observatory from 1908, acting Director from 1915 and served as government astronomer in the state of Victoria from 1920-1943. Baldwin was president, Ro...

The Battle of Svolder (Svold, Swold) was a naval battle fought in September 999 or 1000 in the western Baltic Sea between King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway and an alliance of his enemies. The backdrop of the battle was the unification of Norway into a single state, long-standing Danish efforts to gain co...

Ismoil Somoni Peak is the highest mountain in Tajikistan and in the former Soviet Union, named after Ismoil Somoni, the ancestor of the Samanid dynasty. The first ascent was made 9 September 1933 by the Soviet mountaineer Yevgeniy Abalakov. Read more

The Conestoga was a rocket consisting originally of surplus Minuteman missile stages with additional strap-on boosters, as required, for larger payloads. The first launch of the new Conestoga I design took place on 9 Sep 1982, consisting of the core missile stage and a 500 kg dummy payload which in...

A total solar eclipse occurred on September 9, 1904. Read more

A total solar eclipse occurred on September 9, 1904. Read more

Cult comedy Red Dwarf is returning to UK television screens, 21 years after it was launched into space. Read more

Orbital elements: 2009 BW2 Earth MOID = 0.0172 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 225.35988 (2000.0) P Q n 0.96259190 Peri. 184.66935 -0.75395025 +0.65684854 a 1.0158773 Node 36.39758 -0.60215167 -0.68463880 e 0.1378411 Incl. 1.00825 -0.26262597 -0.31594257 P 1.02 H 25.0 G 0.15 U 8 MP...

Orbital elements: 2012 RO1 Earth MOID = 0.4959 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 340.50510 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23662274 Peri. 103.07371 +0.44721496 -0.83421513 a 2.5887994 Node 315.35140 +0.53281867 +0.53819082 e 0.5166515 Incl. 27.32765 +0.71840312 +0.12014893 P 4.17 H 19....

Sun captured with a 100mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter + IR-cut filter. Music created on an Amiga 1200

Five Minutes With: Ben Goldacre[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19517224]Rea...

Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. Read more

Judith Hann (born 8 September 1942) at Littleover, Derby, Derbyshire, England, is a freelance broadcaster and writer specialising in science, food and the environment. Hann presented BBC's Tomorrow's World between 1974 and 1994. She has since made guest appearances on various TV shows, and has...