AT the ancient complex, 27km south of Masvingo City, eagles majestically soar over the northern granite outcrops forcing skunks and lizards to dart in and out of cracks, crevices and crannies in the ancient stone walls. Dragon flies hover over the greyish rocks while an assortment of melodiously s...
The Temple of Jupiter Stator (Jupiter the Stayer) was a temple of ancient Rome, located in the area of the Roman Forum. The temple was first founded by Romulus after a battle in the Forum area between Romulus and the Sabines. During that battle the Romans were forced to retreat up hill on the Via Sacra....
Credit: NASA SDO a huge solar filament erupted off the sun on August 31, 2012. The video segment in the 304 angstroms wavelength (red coloured Sun) covers approximately 3 hours.
A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 A new superterran exoplanet (aka Super-Earth) was found in the stellar habitable zone of the red dwarf star Gliese 163 by the European HARPS team. The planet, Gliese 163c, has a minimum mass of 6.9 Earth masses and takes nearly 26 days to orbit its...
Title: Sub-arcsecond SMA observations of the prototype Class object VLA1623 at 1.3 mm: A single protostar with a structured outflow cavity ? Authors: A. J. Maury, N. Ohashi. Ph. Andre We present 1.3-mm sub-arcsecond SMA observations of the prototypical Class protostar VLA1623. We report the d...
GRO J1655-40 is a binary star consisting of an evolved F5 primary star and a massive, unseen companion, which orbit each other once every 2.6 days in the constellation of Scorpius. Gas from the surface of the visible star is accreted onto the dark companion, which appears to be a stellar black hole wit...
Orbital elements:
2012 QR50 Earth MOID = 0.2768 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 37.53776 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52384796 Peri. 330.63341 +0.86720482 +0.49793812
a 1.5240500 Node 359.46020 -0.34615804 +0.59754383
e 0.1713189 Incl. 22.88694 -0.35795308 +0.62848946
P 1.88 H 19....
NASA to announce dark matter discovery:
Astronomers will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Monday, August 21, to announce how dark and normal matter have been forced apart in an extraordinarily energetic collision.
The astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the di...
Title: Variable stars in the open cluster NGC 6791 and its surrounding field Authors: F. De Marchi, E. Poretti, M. Montalto, G. Piotto, S. Desidera, L. R. Bedin, R. Claudi, A. Arellano Ferro, H. Bruntt, P.B. Stetson Aims: This work presents a high--precision variability survey in the field of the ol...
Title: Detailed study of the X-ray and Optical/UV orbital ephemeris of X1822-371 Authors: R. Iaria, T. Di Salvo, L. Burderi, A. D'Ai, A. Papitto, A. Riggio, N. R. Robba Recent studies of the optical/UV and X-ray ephemerides of X1822-371 have found some discrepancies in the value of the orbital peri...
FITS or Flexible Image Transport System is a digital file format used to store, transmit, and manipulate scientific and other images. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy. Read more FITSview The FITSview family consi...
Sunspots 11564, 11560, 11553, 11562, 11563 and a new Sunspot emerging over the Suns eastern limb, captured with a 100mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter + IR-cut filter. Music created on an Amiga 1200
DLR at ILA 2012 The ILA Berlin Air Show is one of the most important European aerospace trade fairs. From 11 to 16 September, at ILA 2012, the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) will be showcasing the future of aerospace. DLR is the largest institutional exhibit...
Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is an award-winning Canadian science fiction author. His novels present far-future speculations on topics such as nanotechnology, terraforming, augmented reality and interstellar travel, and have a deeply philosophical streak. One of his concepts, k...
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