Canberra scientist on Mars mission Dr Penny King from the Australian National University will be at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sending commands and receiving data from the Mars Curiosity rover. Ms King says the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station on the outskirts of Canberra will...
Mercury: at magnitude 0.6, starts the month in the constellation of Cancer. Mercury is at Greatest Elongation (25.7° East) at 2:00 UT, 1st July. Mercury is best seen from 21.5h -22.1h. The planet is at aphelion (distance to sun: 0.4667 AU) at 04:20 UT, 12th July. Mercury is at inferior conjuncti...
Solar Prominence: July 28th, 2012.Credit astroguyz Quick video of a large prominence on the limb of the Sun on July 28th, 2012 as seen through a hydrogen-alpha scope.
A possible magnitude 9.5 nova was discovered in the constellation Carina on the 24th July, 2012. Position (J2000): R.A. 09 41 00.00 | Dec. -57° 59' 54.0''
Title: Recovery of the Historical SN1957D in X-rays with Chandra Authors: Knox S. Long, William P. Blair, L. E. H. Godfrey, K. D. Kuntz, Paul P. Plucinsky, Roberto Soria, Christopher J. Stockdale, Bradley C. Whitmore, P. Frank Winkler SN1957D, located in one of the spiral arms of M83, is one of the sm...
DigitalGlobe and GeoEye agree to combine to create a global leader in earth imagery and geospatial analysis. DigitalGlobe, Inc. and GeoEye, Inc., today announced that the boards of directors of both companies have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement under which the companies wi...
Felix Andries Vening Mienesz (The Hague July 30, 1887 - Amersfoort August 10, 1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity. Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of...
Russia Launches Cluster of Four Satellites A Russian Rockot launch vehicle has lifted-off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia, carrying a Cosmos class military satellite, two Gonets-M telecoms satellites and a MiR scientific microsatellite, at 05.35 a.m. Moscow time (01:35 GMT)...
'UFO sighting' in Sunway posted on YouTube A locally shot video on YouTube has got tongues wagging about a possible UFO sighting over Sunway Mentari here. However, the possibility was shot down by experts who said there had to be an explanation for the phenomenon. [url=http://news.asiaone.com/N...
Two planets found sharing one orbit Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would bolster a theory that Earth once shared its orbit with a Mar...
Title: NEAT: a space born astrometric mission for the detection and characterisation of nearby habitable planetary systems Authors: Fabien Malbet, Renaud Goullioud, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Alain Léger, Mike Shao, Antoine Crouzier, the NEAT Consortium The NEAT (Nearby Earth Astrometric Tel...
Title: The effect of orbital evolution on the Haumea (2006 EL61) collisional family Authors: Kathryn Volk, Renu Malhotra The Haumea family is currently the only identified collisional family in the Kuiper belt. We numerically simulate the long-term dynamical evolution of the family to estimat...
Dolphins are marine mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises. There are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, mostly eating fish and squid. The family Delphinida...
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