Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947) is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate. In 1978, he accepted an offer from IBM to join their Zürich research group. There, he met Heinrich Rohrer, with whom he shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for their design of the scanning tunnelling microscope (S...
Wilgefortis is a female saint of popular religious imagination whose cult arose in the 14th century. Art historians have argued that the origins of the cult can be found with the Volto Santo of Lucca, a large eleventh century carved wooden figure of Christ on the Cross (now replaced by a 13th century c...
Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland about the crew of a spacecraft on a dangerous mission to the Sun. In 2057, with the Earth in peril from the dying Sun, the crew is sent to reignite the Sun with a massive stellar bomb with the mass equivalen...
A possible magnitude 9.8 nova was discovered in the constellation Ophiuchus, by K. Haseda (Japan), on the 18th July, 2012. Various follow-up observations were negative. Position (J2000): R.A. 16 53 50.00 | Dec. -25° 54' 33.0''
Chemical bond discovered that only exists in space The bond, of the chemical variety, occurs in the presence of very strong magnetic fields, such as those found around ultra-dense white dwarf stars. Its discovery not only demonstrates the existence of an unfamiliar and exotic type of chemistry, i...
Two Baylor University scientists have come up with a new method to cause a spaceship to effectively travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics. Dr. Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, theorize th...
Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) - 1.5 million Euros for research on dark matter and galaxy formation The astrophysicist Volker Springel is to receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Volker Springel heads the Theoretical Astrophysics research...
Astronomers report the earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, a shocking discovery Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed. In findings reported July 19 in the journal Nature, the astronomers said...
Friday, July 20, 2012 To Monday, July 23, 2012 Gordon's Park Eco Resort RASC Dark Sky Preserve Host location of Stargazing Manitoulin and the Manitoulin Star Party and NEW for 2012 our Perseids Meteor Shower Party, Drumming & Astronomy Weekend and Sky News Contributing editor Peter McMahon's...
Augmented Astronomical Telescope
Andrei Lintu and Marcus Magnor, from the Max Plank Institute for Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany, have created a tool to project a image upon another image seen through the eyepiece of a telescope.
Augmented Reality has been used before with s...
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 - 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until the age of 16. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of...
Title: A Virialised Filamentary Infrared Dark Cloud Authors: Audra K. Hernandez (1), Jonathan C. Tan (2), Jouni Kainulainen (3), Paola Caselli (4), Michael J. Butler (5), Izaskun Jimenez-Serra (6), Francesco Fontani (7) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2) Dep...
Title: Imaging of the Stellar Population of IC10 with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics and the Hubble Space Telescope Authors: William D. Vacca, Christopher D. Sheehy, James R. Graham (Berkeley) We present adaptive optics (AO) images of the central starburst region of the dwarf irregular galaxy...
The SS Gairsoppa was a British steam merchant ship that saw service during the Second World War. She sailed with several convoys, before joining Convoy SL 64. Running low on fuel, she left the convoy and headed for Galway, Ireland, but was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. [url=http://en.wikip...
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