* Astronomy

The Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest structure until its collapse on 8 August 1991. It is the second tallest land-based structure ever built, being surpassed as tallest by the Burj Khalifa, completed in 2010. Read more

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply the Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. Construction of the tower occurred in three stages across 177 years. Work on the ground floor of the white m...

Uranienborg (Swedish: Uraniborg) was an astronomical observatory operated by Tycho Brahe; built circa 1576-1580 on Hven (also spelled Ven or Hveen), an island in the Oresund between Zealand and Scania, at that time belonging to Denmark. It was the first custom-built observatory, and the last to...

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 - March 9, 1955) was an African American explorer and associate of Robert Peary on various expeditions, the most famous being a 1909 expedition during which he may have been the first person to reach the Geographic North Pole. Read more

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS (8 August 1902 - 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. Read more

Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya is a former Soviet female aviator and cosmonaut who flew aboard Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova. While on Salyut 7 space station, Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk (on July 25, 198...

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Read more

Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940 in Queens, New York) is an Italian American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. Read more

John Herbert Chapman (August 28, 1921 - September 28, 1979) from London, Ontario, son of Lt. Col. Lloyd Chapman and Kathleen Chapman, was a Canadian space researcher. Chapman started his career with his work on radio propagation and the ionosphere. When the headquarters building of the Canadian S...

Come out to DeVries Nature Conservancy at 9 p.m. Sunday for a Star Gazing Party. Read more

Museum caught in middle of ugly political cat fight In the centre of the Royal Alberta Museum sits a sacred aboriginal relic, a meteorite known as the Manitou Stone. For generations, the stone that fell from the sky was venerated by the native peoples of central Alberta and Saskatchewan as a holy obje...

With a terrific report that was heard for a radius of from 15 to 20 miles about the country, a huge meteor fell into the Seaconnet river near the home of Capt. Nathaniel B. Church in Tiverton last night causing a vibration in the immediate locality that smashed windows, jarred crockery from shelves and...

Transformed X-48c Flies Successfully The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. The aircraft, designed by The Boeing Co. and built by Cranfield Aerospace Limited of the United Kingdom, is flying agai...

V-Gear TalkCam Tracer CCD (VG10068) Read more Interface: USB 2.0 Sensor: 1/4" SONY ICX098BQ CCD Sensor Sensitivity: <1 lux Effective pixels:1.3 Mega Pixels Max Resolution:1280x 960 Colour dept...

Orbital elements: 2001 XU30 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 92.83378 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30370657 Peri. 106.53141 -0.98881655 -0.01964296 a 2.1919632 Node 72.53100 -0.04727875 -0.89887039 e 0.6671098 Incl. 8.91597 +0.14144454 -0.43777412 P 3.25 H 1...