* Astronomy

Was that a meteor lighting up NorCal, Reno last night?[url=http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sier...

Pass of satellite release from space station during Aug 20 spacewalk. Bright star is Gamma Cygnus

Title: Detection of Small-Scale Granular Structures in the Quiet Sun with the New Solar Telescope Authors: Valentyna Abramenko, Vasyl Yurchyshyn, Philip Goode, Irina Kitiashvili, Alexander Kosovichev Results of a statistical analysis of solar granulation are presented. A data set of 36 imag...

Title: Young massive star clusters in the era of the Hubble Space Telescope Authors: Richard de Grijs (University of Sheffield, UK) The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been instrumental in the discovery of large numbers of extragalactic young massive star clusters (YMCs), often assumed to be pr...

Title: Ground-based search for the brightest transiting planets with the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA - MASCARA Authors: Ignas Snellen, Remko Stuik, Ramon Navarro, Felix Bettonvil, Matthew Kenworthy, Ernst de Mooij, Gilles Otten, Rik ter Horst, Rudolf le Poole The Multi-site All-sky CAmeRA MAS...

Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America and toward Siberia . After some 400 years of relative stability, Earth's North Magnetic Pole has moved nearly 1,100 kilometres out into the Arctic Ocean during the last century. The shift could mean auroras might be more visibl...

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012) was an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (195...

Meteor shower is blamed for false alarm sea search Mysterious red lights in the evening sky above Cardigan Bay prompted fears that a boat could be in trouble and firing off distress flares. After two sightings, an RNLI lifeboat was launched and searched for two hours, off Tresaith and Aberaeron. Not...

Title: Dark Matter Subhalos in the Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy Authors: V. Lora, A. Just, F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo, E. K. Grebel Through numerical simulations, we study the dissolution timescale of the Ursa Minor cold stellar clump, due to the combination of phase-mixing and gravitational encounters w...

Sunspots 11552, 11548 11546 and 11551 captured with a 100mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. A DIY focal reducer (improved with a field stop) was used for some captures. Music created on an Amiga 1200.

Hannspeter Winter (born in Wels on August 22, 1941; died in Vienna on November 8, 2006) was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on hollow atoms. Read more

The Fermi Solar Data Analysis Workshop to be held at Goddard Space Flight Centre on August 22-23, 2012. Read more

Gerald Paul Carr (born August 22, 1932) is an engineer, retired United States Marine Corps colonel and former NASA astronaut. He was commander of Skylab 4, the third and final manned visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop, from November 16, 1973 to February 8, 1974. Read more

James Hillier, OC (August 22, 1915 - January 15, 2007) was a Canadian-born scientist and inventor who designed and built, with Albert Prebus, the first successful high-resolution electron microscope in North America in 1938. Read more

Denis Papin (22 August 1647 - c. 1712) was a French physicist, mathematician and inventor, best known for his pioneering invention of the steam digester, the forerunner of the steam engine and of the pressure cooker. Read more