Samsung SCB-2000 1/3" High Resolution Day/Night Camera 600TVL - Dual Voltage 12/24V The SCB-2000 is a High Resolution camera embedded with our latest W-V DSP chipset featuring proprietary video signal processing technology that achieves vivid graphics at up to 600TV lines resolution. Wi...
Title: Imaging the Cool Hypergiant NML Cygni's Dusty Circumstellar Envelope with Adaptive Optics Authors: M. T. Schuster, M. Marengo, J. L. Hora, G. G. Fazio, R. M. Humphreys, R. D. Gehrz, P. M. Hinz, M. A. Kenworthy, W. F. Hoffmann We present sub-arcsec angular resolution, high-Strehl ratio mid-...
Virtual rocket launches will probe atmospheric effects A rocket launch is the only human activity that immediately affects all layers of the atmosphere, discharging hundreds of tonnes of fuel. As part of ESA's new Clean Space initiative, advanced computer modelling will quantify the environme...
Title: Discovery of the Pigtail Molecular Cloud in the Galactic Center Authors: Shinji Matsumura, Tomoharu Oka, Kunihiko Tanaka, Makoto Nagai, Kazuhisa Kamegai, Tetsuo Hasegawa This paper reports the discovery of a helical molecular cloud in the central molecular zone (CMZ) of our Galaxy. Thi...
Sunspots 11566, 11565, 11564 and 11560, captured with a 100mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter + IR-cut filter. Music created on an Amiga 1200
Volcanoes may have a stronger cooling effect on the Earth than previously thought, an Open University team says.
In Geophysical Research Letters, the UK scientists say large eruptions can kick off a contest between different types of bacteria in peat bogs and wetlands.
Scientists know dust a...
HW Virginis, abbreviated HW Vir, is an eclipsing binary system (of the Algol type) approximately 590 light-years away (based on the stellar properties and magnitudes: the Hipparcos trigonometric parallax measurement has too high an error value to be useful) in the constellation of Virgo. The sy...
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939) is a pioneer of the African-American civil rights movement. She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months. The court case stemming from her refusal to give up her se...
Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev (5 September 1929 - 3 July 2004) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was an ethnic Chuvash. Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 (effectively becoming the third Soviet cosmonaut) and Soyuz 9. Read more
Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini) was discovered on he 29th September, 2008, by A. Boattini (Mt Lemmon Survey). The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 4th April, 2011, at a distance of 3.1 AU from the Sun. [url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08S96....
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) (5 September 1946 - 24 November 1991) was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist of the rock band Queen. Read more Queen - 'Who Wants To Live Forever'
Kyongae Chang (born September 5, 1946) is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens. Read more
James Glaisher FRS (7 April 1809 - 7 February 1903), was an English meteorologist and aeronaut. He was a founder member of the Meteorological Society (1850) and the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain (1866). He was president of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1867 to 1868. He is most famo...