Aleksey Nikolaevich Krylov (August 15 [O.S. 3 August] 1863 - October 26, 1945) was a Russian naval engineer, applied mathematician and memoirist. Read more
Scott Douglas "Scooter" Altman, (born 15 August 1959) is a United States Navy Captain test pilot and former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of four space shuttle missions. His fourth mission on STS-125 was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more
The flooding of the Nile has been an important natural cycle in Egypt since ancient times. It is celebrated by Egyptians as an annual holiday for two weeks starting August 15, known as Wafaa El-Nil. Read more
Title: DeSSpOt: an instrument for stellar spin orientation determination Authors: Anna-Lea Lesage, Magnus Schneide, Günter Wiedemann We designed and constructed a special instrument to enable the determination of the stellar's spin orientation. The Differential image rotator for Stellar...
Public Briefing: Solar and Space Physics Decadal Survey The event will start at 17:00 UT Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, in Room 100 of the National Academies' Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W. The report will be available for immediate release at that time. The briefing will also be webcast live by NASA Tel...
The 2007 Peru earthquake was an earthquake measuring 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale that hit the central coast of Peru on Wednesday, August 15, 2007; it occurred at 23:40:57 UTC (18:40:57 local time) and lasted for about three minutes. The epicenter was located 150 km south-southeast of Lima a...
The 1950 Medog earthquake (also known as the Assam Earthquake), occurred on August 15, 1950, and had a magnitude of 8.6. The epicentre was actually located near Rima, in Tibet. However, the earthquake was destructive in both Assam and Tibet, and 1,526 people were killed. [url=http://en.wikipedi...
Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond, 7th duc de Broglie, FRS (Dieppe, France, 15 August 1892 - Louveciennes, France, 19 March 1987) was a French physicist and a Nobel laureate in 1929. Read more
Expand (647kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (696kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (560kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (652kb, 1024 x 768) Observing session on the 12/13th August, 2012. Observed 6 Perseids. Out of the many photos only one faint meteor was captured (the lower track is of a probable satellite). Images of the Moon, Jup...
NASA is preparing to fly a small satellite about the size of a loaf of bread that could help scientists better understand how effectively drugs work in space. The nanosatellite, known as PharmaSat, is a secondary payload aboard a U.S. Air Force four-stage Minotaur 1 rocket planned for launch the eve...
A national Science week was celebrated nationwide here in South Africa from July 30-August 5, 2012. The event, an initiative of the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST) for highlighting the importance of science for development, is intended to expose school students and teac...
Title: Supernova 2008J: early time observations of a heavily reddened SN 2002ic-like transient Authors: F. Taddia, M. D. Stritzinger, M. M. Phillips, C. R. Burns, E. Heinrich-Josties, N. Morrell, J. Sollerman, S. Valenti, J. P. Anderson, L. Boldt, A. Campillay, S. Castellon, C. Contreras, G. Fo...
Barnard's Star, the second nearest star system to the Sun, spewed a large flare that increased its brightness, say astronomers in the United States. The discovery is a surprise: the star should be sedate, bec...
