KH 15D is a variable star near the Cone Nebula in the extremely young cluster NGC 2264. It was first recognized as interesting and, indeed, unique by Kearns & Herbst (1998). They discovered its 48 day periodicity and extremely deep (~3.5 mag) minima. They also discovered its peculiar return to a...
A magnitude 15.2 Type Ic supernova, 2012ej, was discovered on the 22nd August, 2012, in the spiral galaxy IC 2166 in the constellation Lynx by D. Grennan. The supernova is located 32.3" west and 21.6" north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 06 26 51.01 | Dec +59...
Tropical Storm Isaac Heads for Haiti, Dominican Republic Tropical Storm Isaac headed towards the Dominican Republic and Haiti on Friday, rumbling slowly west across the Caribbean after unleashing heavy rain on parts of Puerto Rico. Read more
First broadcast of a song from Mars to Earth Interplanetary history was made Tuesday when NASA's Curiosity Mars rover beamed a song from the red planet back to Earth. "Reach for the Stars (Mars Edition)," a song from musician will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas had made a trip 708 million mile...
Typhoon Bolaven is forecast to make landfall on Okinawa (26.3 N, 127.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 64 hours probability for TS is 55% in about 64 hours
Title: The First Hyper-Luminous Infrared Galaxy Discovered by WISE Authors: Peter R. M. Eisenhardt, Jingwen Wu, Chao-Wei Tsai, Roberto Assef, Dominic Benford, Andrew Blain, Carrie Bridge, J. J. Condon, Michael C. Cushing, Roc Cutri, Neal J. Evans II, Chris Gelino, Roger L. Griffith, Carl J. Gri...
John E. Heuser (born August 29, 1942) is a Professor of Biophysics in the department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine as well as a Professor at the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Kyoto University. Heuser created quick-fre...
The dates for the 2012 show are Wed 29th August to Sun 2nd September Traditionally this English fair is held at the village of Tarrant Hinton, near Blandford Forum in the heart of the beautiful Dorset countryside. Read more[spoiler][/spo...
USNO's Newest Telescope is Operational The U.S. Naval Observatory's Robotic Astrometric Telescope (URAT) has achieved successful "Initial Operational Capability" at the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station (NOFS) in Arizona The Observatory's newest telescope is actually deri...
DTV Antenna & SteadycamClick to Play | View Details DTV Antenna & Steadicam on MAKE: television John Park shows how to take a fistful of wire coat hangers and make a TV antenna that gives great digital reception. While hes at it, he also makes a video camera stabiliser using metal piping and co...
Massachusetts residents among those reporting sightings of apparent meteor New Englanders were treated to a celestial light show Monday night when an apparent meteor blasted past them. Multiple reports from people in Massachusetts and Maine, posted on the American Meteor Society website, des...
Judgment Day as described by both Sarah Connor and the T-800 (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) occurs on August 29, 1997 Skynet, which is activated on August 4, 1997, becomes self-aware at 02:14 am Eastern Time and launches nuclear missiles at Russia to incite a counterattack against the humans who, in a...
The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 or First Lightning on 29 August 1949, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, after a top-secret R&D project. Read more
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