Baghdad is the capital of the Republic of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Province. On 30 July 762 the caliph Al Mansur commissioned the construction of the city and it was built under the supervision of the Barmakids. Mansur believed that Baghdad was the perfect city to be the capital of the I...
Malden Island, sometimes called Independence Island in the nineteenth century, is a low, arid, uninhabited island in the central Pacific Ocean, about 39 kmē in area. Malden was discovered on 30 July 1825 by Captain The 7th Lord Byron (a cousin of the famous poet). Byron, commanding the British wars...
The Pre-Proposal conference has been scheduled for Monday, July 30. The conference will be virtual and participation will be provided via Webex; travel to attend the conference in person will not be necessary. Read more
This image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 19, 2005, through spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light cantered at 752 nanometres. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometres from Iapetus.
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The Moon captured with an 80mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Baader contrast filter. The 'Golden handle' and 'Moon maiden' can be seen at the top right.
Logitech C250 1.3MP Webcam for astrophotography. Attaching to a telescope is (seemingly) not straightforward but only requires the removal of the front bevel and fitting a DIY adaptor. Enhanced VGA sensor. USB connectivity. 30 frames per second. Built-in Logitech RightSound microphone. 1.8-...
Sunken World War II submarine found off Nantucket The U-550 was found on Monday by a privately funded group organised by New Jersey lawyer Joe Mazraani. It was the second trip in two years to the site by the team, some of whom had been searching for the lost U-boat for two decades. Using side-scan sonar,...
ULA intern rocket launch event Starts at 9:30 a.m. near Pueblo, Colorado. Hands-on learning will reach new heights when Colorado high school students and college interns from across the nation blast high-power rockets and payloads deep into the Colorado sky. Now in its fourth year, the high-powe...
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People of Global Dance Festival 2012 What was launched more than a dozen years ago by KTCL as Rave on the Rocks and later came to be known as the Weekend of E has since evolved into a three-day electronic festival. Global again went down last weekend. Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the ann...
Asteroid hunters announce private deep space mission Details have been released of an ambitious asteroid-hunting mission that a Californian non-profit organisation hopes to launch later this decade. The Sentinel infrared telescope would be put in space to find and track potentially hazardou...
Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (July 29 [O.S. July 17] 1888 - July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes. He played a role in the practical development of...
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