Title: Discovery and Follow-up Observations of the Young Type Ia Supernova 2016coj Author: WeiKang Zheng, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jon Mauerhan, Melissa L. Graham, Heechan Yuk, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Jeffrey M. Silverman, Liming Rui, Ron Arbour, Ryan J. Foley, Bela Abolfathi, Louis E. Abramson,...
Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia Farmers living in central Tolima province in Colombia say they were terrified when an object they took to be a UFO crashed in a field on Sunday. Police have since identified the object as an internet balloon developed by X, a company founded by G...
The EBEX balloon was launched on the 11th June 2009. EBEX launch 11Click to Play | View DetailsEBEX Launch, 6/11/09Click to Play | View Details EBEX is a balloon-borne polarimeter designed to measure the intensity and polarisation of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Measurements of th...
Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Read more
Neanderthals, the stocky kin of modern humans, were far more widespread geographically than previously thought, with some trekking into southern Siberia before vanishing about 30,000 years ago, scientists said on Monday. Researchers led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evoluti...
Ramesses II was once said to have lived to be 99 years old, but it is more likely that he died in his 90th or 91st year. If he became Pharaoh in 1279 BCE as most Egyptologists today believe, he would have assumed the throne on May 31, 1279 BC, based on his known accession date of III Shemu day 27. Read more
A team of space scientists planning a mission to Mars sopped off at the Yorkshire Museum today (January 14) to make a 3D map of the famous Middlesborough Meteorite that will then be installed on a probe bound for the red planet. The meteorite, which landed in 1881 to the surprise of nearby workmen on a ra...
NGC 5053 (also GCL 23, h 1569, GC 3472) is a magnitude +9.8 globular cluster located 53,500 to 56,800 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. Its brightest stars are magnitude +13.8 The cluster can be found less than 1.5° east of the star alpha Comae Berenices and about 1° east of M53. N...
ESO is releasing a magnificent VLT image of the giant stellar nursery surrounding NGC 3603, in which stars are continuously being born. Embedded in this scenic nebula is one of the most luminous and most compact clusters of young, massive stars in our Milky Way, which therefore serves as an excellen...
Title: Probing dust grain evolution in IM Lupi's circumstellar disc. Multi-wavelength observations and modelling of the dust disc Authors: C. Pinte, D.L. Padgett, F. Menard, K.R. Stapelfeldt, G. Schneider, J. Olofsson, O. Panic, J.C. Augereau, G. Duchene, J. Krist, K. Pontoppidan, M.D. Perri...
Kepler Discovers Solar System's Ancient 'Twin' Astronomers have found a star system that bears striking resemblance to our inner solar system. It's a sun-like star that plays host to a system of five small exoplanets - from the size of Mercury to the size of Venus. But there's something very alien ab...
Title: The FUor Candidate V582 Aurigae: First Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations Authors: Evgeni Semkov, Stoyanka Peneva, Michel Dennefeld One of the most attractive events in the pre-main sequence evolution is the FU Orionis (FUor) outburst. Because only a small number of FUor stars...
The Guizhou Provincial Development and Reform Commission on Monday announced that it will launch the world's largest single-aperture spherical radio telescope as one of the state's key sci-tech infrastructure projects in the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in south Guizhou Province. The...
NGC 1701 (also ESO 422-11, MCG -05-12-010, IRAS 4539-2957 and PGC 16352) is a magnitude +12.8 spiral galaxy located 266 ±19 million light-years away in the constellation Caelum. The galaxy is close to the magnitude +10.66 star TYC 6472-1456-1 The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John H...
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