Largest ever Cherenkov telescope sees first light On 26 July 2012, the H.E.S.S. II telescope started operation in Namibia. Dedicated to observing the most violent and extreme phenomena of the Universe in very high energy gamma-rays, H.E.S.S. II is the largest Cherenkov telescope ever built, wit...
One of a set of four spy satellites Japan launched has malfunctioned in orbit. The news is another setback for the Japanese intelligence-gathering programme that has suffered delays since a domestically developed H2-A rocket carrying two spy satellites veered off course and had to be destroyed i...
SSTL announces exactView-1 satellite launch date Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Baikonur Co...
The Open Source Satellite Initiative by Hojun Song Space programs so far have been the domain of governments and the military-industrial complex - rarely ever have individuals ventured into outer space. But after years of research Korea...
An astronomer is busy charting the location of meteorites following a fireball shooting across the sky, Thursday night. It is thought many people witnessed the event, as it the fireball was extremely bright and it was followed by a loud bang. Astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, who is behind webs...
Title: HST's hunt for intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters Authors: Julio Chanamé (1), Justice Bruursema (2), Rupali Chandar (3), Jay Anderson (4), Roeland van der Marel (4), Holland Ford (2) ((1) Carnegie DTM, (2) Johns Hopkins University, (3) University of Toledo, (4) Space Telesco...
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 + Baader contrast filter. [video=http://w...
Title: Using MOST to reveal the secrets of the mischievous Wolf-Rayet binary CV Ser Authors: Alexandre David-Uraz, Anthony F. J. Moffat, André-Nicolas Chené, Jason F. Rowe, Nicholas Lange, David B. Guenther, Rainer Kuschnig, Jaymie M. Matthews, Slavek M. Rucinski, Dimitar Sasselov, Werner W....
Title: First Dark Matter Results from the XENON100 Experiment Authors: E. Aprile, K. Arisaka, F. Arneodo, A. Askin, L. Baudis, A. Behrens, E. Brown, J. M. R. Cardoso, B. Choi, D. B. Cline, S. Fattori, A. D. Ferella, K.-L. Giboni, K. Hugenberg, A. Kish, C. W. Lam, J. Lamblin, R. F. Lang, K. E. Lim, J. A. M....
A Chang Zheng 3C rocket has successfully launched the TL-1Tianlian I-3 'Sky Link' tracking and data relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre at 15:43 UT, 26th July, 2012.
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. At 91 he joined the Interplanetary Society for the last three years of his life. Read more
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in p...
The Republic of Stellaland was formally created on 26 July 1882, under the leadership of its elected president Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, a farmer from Transvaal, and was given the name Stellaland (Star Land) in reference to a comet that was visible in the skies at the time. [url=http://en.wikipe...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Du...
Weather forecasters at the Kennedy Space Centre predict a 40 percent chance that weather would not be favourable for the planned launch.
Should Wednesday's launch be called off, NASA would attempt it again on Thursday, when chances of unfavourable weather would be only 30 percent.
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