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Successful launch for Nilesat The third Ariane 5 mission in 2010 successfully launched a pair of Thales Alenia Space-produced satellites: Nilesat 201 and Rascom-QAF1R on Wednesday, August 4. Nilesat 201 will be utilised by Egyptian satellite operator Nilesat to deliver digital Direct-to-Hom...

Sir William Rowan Hamilton (4 August 1805 - 2 September 1865) was an Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician, who made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra. His studies of mechanical and optical systems led him to discover new mathematical concepts and te...

George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 in Evanston, Illinois - May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer, and a grandson of John Joseph Seerley. Read more

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Cepheus and HD 206267 in the emission nebula IC 1396

Possible Valuable Meteorite Falls To Earth In St. Clair Folks in St. Clair, Missouri are hunting for something that fell from outer space and could be worth a lot of money. Mona Marler and her husband Rick were sitting on the deck of their St. Clair, Missouri home Wednesday night when they saw the fire b...

Manyikeni is a Mozambiquean archaeological site, situated around 52 km west of the coastal city of Vilanculos. The archaeological site dates from the twelfth to seventeenth century. It is believed to be part of the Great Zimbabwe tradition of architecture. Not only is the central stone enclosure...

Arianespace to launch Intelsat-20 Leading international satellite operator Intelsat has chosen Arianespace to launch its Intelsat-20 satellite. Arianespace announced today that it has been chosen by Intelsat to launch the Intelsat-20 satellite during the second quarter of 2012. Weighing 5...

Sunspots 11535 (left), 11532 (large), 11530 and 11529 (top) captured with an 80mm f5 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + solar filter + Baader contrast filter Sunspots 11538, 11539 (b...

Perseus double cluster and the Andromeda galaxy

Title: The evolution of Ap stars Authors: P. North (1), J. Babel (2), D. Erspamer (3) ((1) Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, (2) Neuchâtel, Switzerland, (3) St-Maurice, Switzerland) The many peculiarities of Ap stars (not only chemical ones, but also magnetic field...

Georgy Stepanovich Shonin (August 3, 1935 - April 7, 1997; born in Rovenky, Luhansk Oblast, (now Ukraine) but grew up in Balta of Ukrainian SSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission. Read more

Title: LHS 2803B: A very wide mid-T dwarf companion to an old M dwarf identified from Pan-STARRS1 Authors: Niall R. Deacon (1,2), Michael C. Liu (2,3) Eugene A. Magnier (2), Brendan P. Bowler (2), Andrew W. Mann (2), Joshua A. Redstone (4), William S. Burgett (2), Ken C. Chambers (2), Klaus W. Hodapp (...

Title: Discovery of a Very Low Mass Triple with Late-M and T Dwarf Components: LP 704-48/SDSS J0006-0852AB Authors: Adam J. Burgasser (UCSD), Christopher Luk (UCSD), Saurav Dhital (Vanderbilt/Boston University), Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi (UCSD), Christine P. Nicholls (UCSD), L. Prato (L...

HYLAS 2 satellite to be launched by Arianespace Avanti Communications Group plc has chosen Arianespace to launch its HYLAS 2 communications satellite. The HYLAS 2 satellite will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit in the first half of 2012 by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher operating at the...