The papers of one of Britains greatest scientists, which were lost for centuries and saved for the nation in a £1 million sale last year, become available to read online today. The innovative digital folio provides unprecedented public access to hundreds of pages of manuscript notes and minutes ke...
Asteroid 153958 (2002 AM31) will make a near Earth flyby on the 22nd July, 2012. Google earth file: Asteroid (153958) 2002 AM31.kmz (18kb, kmz) EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V
2012 07 01 18 15 28.0 +07 05 43 0.1284 1.1288 149.2 27.5 15.2
2012 07 02 18 16 03.0 +07 55 46 0.1227 1.1...
Hubble Sees a Galaxy Festooned with Stellar Nurseries The galaxy NGC 4700 bears the signs of the vigorous birth of many new stars in this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The many bright, pinkish clouds in NGC 4700 are known as H II regions, where intense ultraviolet light from h...
Sunspots 11528 (left), 11529, 11530 (bottom), 11526 (right) and a new large sunspot emerging over the Suns limb (very bottom) captured with a 100mm f6 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Title: Neutral material around the B[e] supergiant star LHA 115-S 65: An outflowing disk or a detached Keplerian rotating disk? Authors: Michaela Kraus, Marcelo Borges Fernandes, Francisco X. de Araujo B[e] supergiants are surrounded by large amounts of hydrogen neutral material, traced by th...
Title: Analogue of cosmological particle creation in an ion trap Authors: Ralf Schützhold, Michael Uhlmann, Lutz Petersen, Hector Schmitz, Axel Friedenauer, Tobias Schätz We study phonons in a dynamical chain of ions confined by a trap with a time-dependent (axial) potential strength and demo...
Title: Study of the Cataclysmic Variable 1RXS J174320.1-042953 Authors: D. V. Denisenko, F. Martinelli We report on the photometric analysis of the poorly studied cataclysmic variable in Ophiuchus 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (DDE 11). Results of the monitoring with the Bradford Robotic Telescope...
Title: Physical properties of the jet in 0836+710 revealed by its transversal structure Authors: M. Perucho, A.P. Lobanov Studying the internal structure of extragalactic jets is crucial for understanding their physics. The Japanese-led space VLBI project VSOP has presented an opportunity f...
SkyFi is our patent-pending WiFi-to-Serial adapter, designed for wireless telescope control. If you have a computer-controlled GoTo telescope, SkyFi can use the WiFi capabilities built into your Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to point your telescope in the sky. SkyFi now includes both USB...
ATK Selected To Provide Key Components for DARPA Phoenix Satellite Repurposing Program ATK announces it has been selected as a key participant to support the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Tactical Technologies Office (TTO) Phoenix Technologies Program. The Phoenix P...
Jeremiah Dixon (July 27, 1733 - January 22, 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason-Dixon line. Read more
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (born Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha on July 27, 1972) is a Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon and was the first Malaysian to go into space. He was launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew on October 10, 20...
National Sleepy Head Day (Finnish: Unikeonpäivä) is celebrated in Finland on July 27 every year. Traditionally on this day, the last person in the house (also dubbed as the "laziest") to wake up is woken up using water, either by being thrown into a lake or the sea, or by having water thrown...
Military missile or meteorite? Mysterious UFO spotted in Xiamen sky Many Xiamen residents reported seeing an unidentified flying object flying through the sky at high speed on Tuesday evening, according to Wednesday's Xiamen Economic Daily. A citizen surnamed Wang, who was walking on Dongpu Ro...
