Title: Discovery of Fluorine in Cool Extreme Helium Stars
Authors: Gajendra Pandey (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)
Neutral fluorine (F I) lines are identified in the optical spectra of cool EHe stars. These are the first identification of F I lines in...
The Launch Readiness Review (RAL) took place in Kourou on Tuesday July 3, 2012 and authorised count-down operations for the Echostar XVII & MSG-3 launch. Arianespace will orbit two satellites on its third Ariane 5 launch of the year: the dedicated Internet satellite EchoStar XVII for the Amer...
Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the First Time For the first time, dark galaxies - an early phase of galaxy formation, predicted by theory but unobserved until now - may have been spotted. These objects are essentially gas-rich galaxies without stars. Using ESOs Very Large Telescop...
Rio Rancho teen finds 2-pound meteorite After years of searching and several thousand misses, 13-year-old Jansen Lyons finally found his first meteorite - and the first one for Rio Rancho, too. Lyons, a tenacious and fast-talking teen who lives in Rio Rancho, found the space rock in September of la...
ASU astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy Newfound galaxy secures spot among top 10 most distant known objects in space Astronomers at Arizona State University have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from t...
Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton observatory have found very hot gaseous haloes around a multitude of spiral galaxies similar to our Milky Way galaxy. These 'ghost-like' veils have been suspected for decades but remained elusive until now.
Galaxy 'haloes' are often seen in so-called 's...
Title: Optical identification of X-ray source 1RXS J180431.1-273932 as a magnetic cataclysmic variable Authors: N. Masetti, A. A. Nucita, P. Parisi The X-ray source 1RXS J180431.1-273932 has been proposed as a new member of the Symbiotic X-ray Binary (SyXB) class of systems, which are composed...
Title: The binary companion of PSR J1740-3052 Authors: C.G. Bassa, W.F. Brisken, G. Nelemans, I.H. Stairs, B.W. Stappers, M. Kramer We report on the identification of a near-infrared counterpart to the massive (>11 Msun) binary companion of pulsar J1740-3052. An accurate celestial positio...
Title: Multi-Wavelength Observations of Supernova 2011ei: Time-Dependent Classification of Type IIb and Ib Supernovae and Implications for their Progenitors Authors: D. Milisavljevic, R. Margutti, A. M. Soderberg, G. Pignata, L. Chomiuk, R. Fesen, F. Bufano, N. E. Sanders, J. T. Parrent, S....
Scottish astronomer discovers record haul of comets The month that sees the end of British Summer Time brings views of a wide swath of the heavens that reaches from the best of our summer stars in the evening to the glorious winter's sky around Orion before dawn. We might also see all of the planets of th...
Alexander Mikhaylovich Prokhorov (11 July 1916 - 8 January 2002) was a Soviet physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov. Read more
Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes (born 11 July 1924, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, died 8 March 2005, Campinas, São Paulo), also known as Cesar (or César) Lattes, was a Brazilian experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. R...
Mongolia's Naadam festival celebrates traditions Mongolians have been celebrating the country's nomadic traditions at the annual Naadam Festival. Read more
No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. Mermaids - those half-human, half-fish sirens of the sea - are legendary sea creatures chronicled in maritime cultures since time immemorial. The ancient Greek epic poet Homer wrote of them in The Odyssey. [url=http://oceanservice.noaa.go...
