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The Bastille Day Flare or Bastille Day Event was a powerful solar flare on July 14, 2000 occurring near the peak of the solar maximum. Active region 9077 produced an X5-class flare, which caused an S3 radiation storm on Earth fifteen minutes later as energetic protons bombarded the ionosphere Read...

Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft, launched on November 28, 1964, intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surf...

A large violent earthquake occurred on the early hours (6 h 22 m or so) of 14 July 1885 damaging many areas of Bengal (presently within Bangladesh) with epicenter somewhere close to 24.0 N (Lat) 90.1 E (Long). The earthquake was sensibly felt througout an area of about 230,400 sq miles covering Choton...

2007 FT3 Earth Impact Risk SummaryTorino Scale (maximum)Palermo Scale (maximum)-3.74Palermo Scale (cumulative)-3.12Impact Probability (cumulative)1.2e-06Number of Potential Impacts127Vimpact20.37 km/sVinfinity17.05 km/sH20.0Diameter0.340 kmMass5.5e+10 kgEnergy2.7e...

Scientists pursue paleoclimate, deglaciation records from atop Roosevelt ice dome Not much more than a large, icy bump on the northern edge of the nearly Texas-sized Ross Ice Shelf , Roosevelt Island is the site of an international research campaign to learn more about the climate and deglaciatio...

A giant atlas has gone on show at the British Library. The Earth Platinum reference atlas, one of only 32 copies in existence measures 6ft by 9ft and requires 6 people to carry it. Read more

Just announced: Pluto has come company-- We've discovered a 5th moon using the Hubble Space Telescope Source

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Title: Viscous Little Rip Cosmology Authors: I. Brevik, E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov Dark energy of phantom or quintessence nature with an equation of state parameter w almost equal to -1 often leads the universe evolution to a finite-time future singularity. An elegant solution to this...

Title: The Lick-Carnegie Survey: A New Two-Planet System Around the Star HD 207832 Authors: Nader Haghighipour, R. Paul Butler, Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory W. Henry, Steven S. Vogt Keck/HIRES precision radial velocities of HD 207832 indicate the presence of two Jovian-type planetary companion...

Title: Period and light curve fluctuations of the Kepler Cepheid V1154 Cyg Authors: A. Derekas, Gy. M. Szabo, L. Berdnikov, R. Szabo, R. Smolec, L. L. Kiss, L. Szabados, M. Chadid, N. R. Evans, K. Kinemuchi, J. M. Nemec, S. E. Seader, J. C. Smith, P. Tenenbaum We present a detailed period analysis of th...

SAOImage DS9 is an astronomical imaging and data visualisation application. DS9 supports FITS images and binary tables, multiple frame buffers, region manipulation, and many scale algorithms and colourmaps. It provides for easy communication with external analysis tasks and is highly confi...

Global Space Scientists to Throng Mysore for Meet Scientists from 75 countries would gather in the palace city of Mysore over the weekend to deliberate on contemporary topics in the realm of space. The week-long gathering of more than 2,500 scientists and students from 75 countries will witness pr...

Stargazing Basics 1: Getting oriented Learn the basics of orienting yourself in the night sky for beginning astronomy, starting with the cardinal directions, and moving through the concepts of the meridian, zenith, ecliptic, celestia...

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