Sunspots 11519 (top) and 11518 and a new sunspot that has emerged over the sun's eastern limb captured with an 80mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Solar filter + IR-cut filter. Su...
Title: Chandra X-ray Observations of the Two Brightest Unidentified High Galactic Latitude Fermi-LAT gamma-ray Sources Authors: C. C. Cheung, D. Donato, N. Gehrels, K. V. Sokolovsky, M. Giroletti We present Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observations of 0FGL J1311.9-3419 and 0FGL J1653.4-0200, the tw...
The 370 - 840 metre wide asteroid 2002 XH4 will make a close pass (72.0 lunar distances, 0.1851 AU), travelling at 7.76 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th July, 2012 @ 00:05 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
Title: A possible binary system of a stellar remnant in the high magnification gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2007-BLG-514 Authors: N. Miyake, A. Udalski, T. Sumi, D. P. Bennett, S. Dong, R. A. Street, J. Greenhill, I. A. Bond, A. Gould, M. Kubiak, M. K. Szymanski, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszy...
Title: Kepler Observations of V447 Lyr: An Eclipsing U Gem Cataclysmic Variable Authors: Gavin Ramsay (1), John K. Cannizzo (2,3), Steve B. Howell (4), Matt A. Wood (5), Martin Still (4,6), Thomas Barclay (4,6), Alan Smale (7), ((1) Armagh Observatory, (2) CRESST/GSFC, (3) University Maryland,...
On July 7, 1959 at 14:30 hours, Venus Occulted Regulus. This means that Venus passed between Earth and the star Regulus, which gave astronomers a great opportunity to learn more about Venus. The Regulus star is so bright it has been difficult for astronomers to get a better look and Venus and when Venu...
Little Feller II and Little Feller I were code names for a set of nuclear tests undertaken by the United States at the Nevada Test Site on July 7 and July 17, 1962 as part of Operation Sunbeam. In Little Feller II (July 7), the warhead was suspended only three feet above the ground and had a yield equivalen...
King Arthur is a 2004 film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Franzoni. It stars Clive Owen as the title character, Ioan Gruffudd as Lancelot, and Keira Knightley as Guinevere. The producers of the film claim to present a historically accurate version of the Arthurian legends, supposed...
The BBC is bringing back the Tomorrow's World brand to help audiences understand new technologies.
Presenter Maggie Philbin will be offering in-depth analysis on technology stories on TV, radio and the web under the Tomorrow's World banner.
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Hubble Sees Red Giant Blow a Bubble U Camelopardalis, or U Cam for short, is a star nearing the end of its life. As it begins to run low on fuel, it is becoming unstable. Every few thousand years, it coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse. The gas ejected...
Expedition finds worlds oldest impact site Scientific detective work has discovered the oldest known impact site in the world. The 100km wide scar in Greenland was caused when a large asteroid or comet collided with the Earth three billion years ago. The previous oldest known crater, in South Afri...
Antares #21 Orange Filter 1.25" 46% transmission Reduces transmission of blue and green wavelengths. blocks visible wavelengths below 530nm. Useful on Mars for Maria and sharpen the bounderies between yellow/orange area...
Piper Alpha was a North Sea oil production platform operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. The platform began production in 1976, first as an oil platform and then later converted to gas production. An explosion and resulting fire destroyed it on July 6, 1988, killing 168 men, with only...
The Ludi Apollinares were solemn games (ludi) held annually by the ancient Romans in honour of the god Apollo. The tradition goes that at the first celebration hereof, they were suddenly invaded by the enemy, and obliged to take to their arms. A cloud of darts and arrows fell upon their enemies, and th...
The 29 - 65 metre wide asteroid 2005 QQ30 will make a close pass (68.7 lunar distances, 0.1765 AU), travelling at 13.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th July, 2012 @ 00:58 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
