Salyut 5 (Russian: Salute 5), also known as OPS-3, was a Soviet space station. Launched in 1976 as part of the Salyut programme, it was the third and last Almaz space station to be launched for the Soviet military. Two Soyuz missions visited the station, each manned by two cosmonauts. A third Soyuz mis...
Title: The UV/optical spectra of the type Ia supernova SN 2010jn: A bright supernova with outer layers rich in iron-group elements Authors: S. Hachinger, P. A. Mazzali, M. Sullivan, R. Ellis, K. Maguire, A. Gal-Yam, D. A. Howell, P. E. Nugent, E. Baron, I. Arcavi, D. Bersier, B. Dilday, P. James, M. M...
Title: The 2008 May burst activation of SGR 1627-41 Authors: P. Esposito, G. L. Israel, S. Zane, F. Senziani, R. L. C. Starling, N. Rea, D. M. Palmer, N. Gehrels, A. Tiengo, A. De Luca, D. Götz, S. Mereghetti, P. Romano, T. Sakamoto, S. D. Barthelmy, L. Stella, R. Turolla, M. Feroci, V. Mangano In May 200...
Title: H\alpha Kinematics of S4G spiral galaxies I. NGC 864 Authors: Santiago Erroz-Ferrer, Johan H. Knapen, Joan Font, John E. Beckman, Jesús Falcón-Barroso, José Ramón Sánchez-Gallego, E. Athanassoula, Albert Bosma, Dimitri A. Gadotti, Juan Carlos Muńoz-Mateos, Kartik Sheth, Ronald J. Bu...
A Proton M-Briz rocket is scheduled to launch the Express MD2 and Telkom 3 communication satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 19:31 UT, 6th August, 2012.
Martin Fleischmann (29 March 1927 - 3 August 2012) was a British chemist noted for his work in electrochemistry. Premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, led to their names being identified with the frenzy, controversy, and backl...
The Z Cam-type dwarf nova, AT Cancri, is in outburst. Date: 12 April, 2011 Magnitude: 12.7 - 15.2 V Period: ? days Satellite period: 0.2011 days Type: UGZ Position (2000): RA 08 28 36.925, Dec=+25°20'03.04"
Are we ready for an earthquake in Adelaide? Four South Australian earthquake experts will discuss Adelaide's risk of a major earthquake, the likely impact and how we can be safer, at a special 'Research Tuesdays' event at the University of Adelaide on Tuesday 14 August. [url=http://www.adelaide...
Humans used fire a million years ago Wonderwerk Cave shows fire used 300,000 years earlier than believed An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, al...
Title: A new CP violating observable for the LHC Authors: Joshua Berger, Monika Blanke, Yuval Grossman We study a new type of CP violating observable that arises in three body decays of neutral particles, such as Majorana fermions. We consider decays that are dominated by an intermediate charged r...
STS-28 was the 30th NASA Space Shuttle mission, the fourth shuttle mission dedicated to United States Department of Defence purposes, and the eighth flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission launched on 8 August 1989, lasted just over 5 days, and travelled 2.1 million miles during 81 orbits of...
The first documented balloon flight in Europe was by the Portuguese priest Bartolomeu de Gusmăo. On August 8, 1709, in Lisbon, Bartolomeu de Gusmăo managed to lift a small balloon made of paper full of hot air about four meters in front of king John V and the Portuguese court. Read more
The first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc was on 8 August 1786 by Jacques Balmat and the doctor Michel Paccard. This climb, initiated by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, who gave a reward for the successful ascent, traditionally marks the start of modern mountaineering. The first woman to reach the summ...
