The Tuskegee syphilis experiment was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor, rural black men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. gov...
Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier markgravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg - 18 July 1650 in Neisse in Silesia) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Read more
SkySafari 3 - for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch SkySafari 3 Plus - $14.99, 181 MB, 2.5M stars, telescope control, view from Solar System. SkySafari 3 Plus adds a hugely expanded database, wired or wireless telescope control - and the ability to leave Earth and fly into orbit around any object in our Sol...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a Chasma on Venus. Rona Chasma for a 1520-km-wide Venusian steep-sided depression located at 2.5°N, 299°E. Rona Chasma is the southern segment of Devana Chasma. The feature was named in honour of the Maori Moon godd...
Title: Cool dwarfs in wide multiple systems. Paper 4: a common-proper-motion pair of two identical mid-M dwarfs separated by about 10000 AU Authors: F. M. Rica, J. A. Caballero LSPM J0651+1843 and LSPM J0651+1845 are two high-proper-motion stars recently claimed to form a binary system, FMR 83, b...
A pulsar with a tremendous hiccup Max Planck scientists discover a young and energetic neutron star with unusually irregular rotation Pulsars are superlative cosmic beacons. These compact neutron stars rotate about their axes many times per second, emitting radio waves and gamma radiation int...
Jurassic 'burn-down' events explain patterns of organic matter richness in Kimmeridge Clay Formation The sediments of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation were deposited during the Late Jurassic between around 160 and 145 million years ago, the age of the reptiles. They are the main oil source rock in t...
Expand (118kb, 800 x 600)Expand (178kb, 800 x 600) Sunspot 11525 captured with a 100mm f6 refractor + Vesta pro webcam + solar filter + green filter. New sunspots 11527, 11528, 11...
Orbital elements:
2005 UC Earth MOID = 0.1243 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 2.05801 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28444421 Peri. 150.35488 +0.98767855 -0.14427338
a 2.2898374 Node 218.09066 +0.11714164 +0.93847220
e 0.5131623 Incl. 5.64037 +0.10377338 +0.31377559
P 3.47 H 19.9 G 0....
Title: Discovery of fast, large-amplitude optical variability of V648 Car (=SS73-17) Authors: R. Angeloni (1), F. Di Mille (2,3,4), C.E. Ferreira Lopes (5,1), N. Masetti (6) ((1) Departamento de Astronomia y Astrofisica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile, (2) Sydney Institute...
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A light bulb-shaped eruption leaps from the Sun and blasts into space in this archival image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO. SOHO captured the scene on 27 February 2000, watching as a large filament rose from the Suns broiling atmosphere and evolved into the coronal mas...
Life in the Multiverse Lecture Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 - 12:00pm Name: Andrei Linde Cosmological observations show that the universe is very uniform on the maximally large scale accessible to our telescopes, and the same laws of physics operate in all of its parts that we can see now. The best...
First Contact - Marc Kaufman, Jill Tarter, Frank Drake, Seth Shostak (SETI Talks) Marc Kaufman has been a journalist for more than 35 years, working as a foreign correspondent, a magazine writer, a beat reporter and currently also as a nati...
