A remarkable new low-cost camera technique is helping UK astronomers find new stars.
A Cambridge team has overcome the problem of turbulence in the atmosphere which makes stars twinkle and hard to see by using a technique known as Lucky Imaging.
Millions of photographs are taken ver...
Students, M. Barbosa, I. Pereira, P. Miranda, & P. Carneiro, from Escola Básica de Vilar de Andorinho in Portugal discovered the Main Belt asteroid 2012 JB14. Source
Debris from the YAOGAN 1 module that was launched on the 26th April, 2006, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 17th August, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.YAOGAN 1 DEB
1 36363U 06015G 12214.37916621 .02410645 00000-0 92995-2 920
2 363...
Outburst of Blue Variable (LBV) R71 (= HDE 269006, ASAS 050207-7120.2, V733 LMC), in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). OUTBURST OF R71 IN THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD R. Gamen, Instituto de Astrofisica de La Plata, CONICET; R. Barba, Universidad de La Serena and Insituto de Ciencias Astronomicas y d...
Amluk-Dara stupa: Excavators discover unique complex Local and foreign excavators revealed on Wednesday that a unique part of a previously-discovered site of the Gandhara civilization at Amluk-Dara, Swat, has been uncovered jointly by Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan and Khyber-...
Expand (170kb, 800 x 600) Sunspots 11540(bottom), 11538, 11537 (top) and some solar faculae captured with a 80mm refractor + solar filter + green filter. Sunspots 11540(bottom...
Australia releases documents giving evidence of UFOs in 1983 Documents prepared in 1983 and released now after 29 years, have revealed that two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Mirage fighter jets intercepted UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) back then. The papers stamped "restricted...
Orbital elements:
2012 PA Earth MOID = 0.1478 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 69.24502 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61638762 Peri. 14.88676 -0.99501862 +0.09406298
a 1.3674143 Node 170.32844 -0.09894833 -0.97218816
e 0.7058261 Incl. 11.33398 +0.01213148 -0.21448155
P 1.60 H 20.2 G 0...
The Mars program was a series of unmanned spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and included flyby probes, landers and orbiters. Mars 6 successfully lifted off on August 5, 1973, into an intermediate Earth orbit on a Proton SL-1...
The treaty banning nuclear weapon tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water, often abbreviated as the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT), Limited Test Ban Treaty (LTBT), or Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (NTBT) (although the latter also refers to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty) is a treaty pr...
S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an ill-fated effort to reach the North Pole in which all three expedition members perished. The Norwegian Bratvaag Expedition, studying the glaciers and seas of the Svalbard archipelago from the Norwegian sealing vessel Bratvaag of Alesund, f...
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 - 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. Read more
Ettore Majorana (born August 1906; missing, presumed dead on 27 March 1938) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are na...
