Luna 18 (Ye-8-5 series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 18. Luna 18 was placed in an earth parking orbit after it was launched on 2 September, 1971, and was then sent towards the Moon. On September 7, 1971, it entered lunar orbit. The spacecraft completed 85 communi...
Title: Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System Author: Robert BurnhamThis comprehensive coverage of the thousands of celestial objects outside our solar system. The objects are grouped according to constellation, and their definitions fe...
Sunspots 11564, 11560, 11553, 11562 and 11563 captured with a 100mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter + IR-cut filter + Front mounted Green filter.
The 1935 Labour Day Hurricane was the strongest tropical cyclone of the 1935 Atlantic hurricane season, and one of the most intense hurricanes to make landfall in the United States in recorded history. Read more
Goldau is a city in the community of Arth, canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. On September 2, 1806 heavy rains triggered a landslide of 120 million tonnes (40 million cubic metres) from the Rossberg which destroyed Goldau and the adjacient villages Busingen, Röthen and Lauerz. Read more
NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars Coming less than a year after the announcement of the first circumbinary planet, Kepler-16b, NASA's Kepler mission has discovered multiple transiting planets orbiting two suns for the first time. This system, known as a circumbi...
Debris from a CZ-4 rocket body that was launched on the 14th October, 1999, from the Taiyaun Space Centre, China, for the CBERS 1 and SACI 1 satellite missions, re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 1st September, 2012 @ 03:23 GMT ą 1 hours.CZ-4 DEB
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Title: The RRAT Trap: Interferometric Localisation of Radio Pulses from J0628+0909 Authors: Casey J. Law (1,2), Geoffrey C. Bower (1), Martin Pokorny (3), Michael P. Rupen (3), Ken Sowinski (3) (1, UC Berkeley, 2, VLA Resident, 3, NRAO) We present the first blind interferometric detection and im...
A possible magnitude 12.9 supernova was discovered by T. Puckett and J. Newton on the 2nd November, 2010, near the galaxy PGC 027776 (UGC 5189A) in the constellation Leo. The supernova is located 2.4" East and 7.7" North from the center of the galaxy.As yet they type is unknown. Position...
Title: AMBER/VLTI observations of the B[e] star MWC 300 Authors: Y. Wang, G. Weigelt, A. Kreplin, K.-H. Hofmann, S. Kraus, A. S. Miroshnichenko, D. Schertl, A. Chelli, A. Domiciano de Souza, F. Massi, S. Robbe-Dubois Aims. We study the enigmatic B[e] star MWC 300 to investigate its disk and binary w...
René Frédéric Thom (September 2, 1923 - October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of...
Israel Moiseevich Gelfand, also written Israďl Moyseyovich Gel'fand, or Izrail M. Gelfand (2 September [O.S. 20 August] 1913 - 5 October 2009), was a Soviet mathematician who made major contributions to many branches of mathematics, including group theory, representation theory and function...
Woldemar Voigt (2 September 1850 - 13 December 1919) was a German physicist, who taught at the Georg August University of Göttingen. Voigt eventually went on to head the Mathematical Physics Department at Göttingen and was succeeded in 1914 by Peter Debye, who took charge of the theoretical depart...
