Whale sanctuary bid for South Atlantic falls short A proposal to declare a whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic Ocean has been defeated at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual meeting. Latin American countries argued that declaring a sanctuary would help whale conservation and wh...
Residents report meteor sightings A number of Christchurch residents are reporting sightings of a suspected meteor or meteor shower in the skies over Canterbury last night. Read more
'Woodhenge' pub shed wins Shed of the Year 2012 John Plumridge from Shrewsbury will be raising a glass in his pub shed as it is crowned the winner of the 2012 Shed of the Year competition. The Shropshire sheddie has taken the concept to new heights with his Woodhenge Pub Shed. [url=http://www.indepen...
Meteor plunges into ocean lighting up Perth sky This fiery streak in the sky amazed Perth beachgoers at sunset as a suspected meteor plunged into the ocean off the WA coast. Pip Moir posted this photo she took at Cottesloe Beach to Twitter shortly after 6pm as puzzled onlookers debated what caused the...
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of lower Cambrian deposits in the Chiungchussu formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, or high number of fossils preserved in place. The Maotianshan shales form one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preserv...
Title: MUCHFUSS - Massive Unseen Companions to Hot Faint Underluminous Stars from SDSS Authors: S. Geier, V. Schaffenroth, H. Hirsch, A. Tillich, U. Heber, P. F. L. Maxted, R. H. Ostensen, B. N. Barlow, S. J. O'Toole, T. Kupfer, T. Marsh, B. Gänsicke, R. Napiwotzki, O. Cordes, S. Müller, L. Classen,...
Title: BL LAC PKSB1144-379 an extreme scintillator Authors: R. J. Turner (1), S. P. Ellingsen (1), S. S. Shabala (1), J. Blanchard (1), J. E. J. Lovell (1), J. N. McCallum (1), G. Cimo (2) ((1) University of Tasmania, (2) JIVE) Rapid variability in the radio flux density of the BL Lac object PKSB1144-3...
RIKEN and Fujitsu Complete Operational Testing of the K computer RIKEN and Fujitsu today announced that operational testing of their jointly developed K computer has been completed as of June 29. The K computer will now be available for limited operations while it undergoes operational environm...
We are pleased to announce the 22nd UCL Astrophysics Colloquium: Opacities in Cool Stars and Exoplanets, organised as part of the ExoMol project. Dates: 2 - 5 July 2012 Location: Cumberland Lodge The Great Park Windsor Berkshire SL4 2HP, UK Read more
Sir William Henry Bragg OM, KBE, PRS (2 July 1862 - 10 March 1942) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics. The mineral Braggite is named after him and his son. Read more...
Hans Albrecht Bethe (July 2, 1906 - March 6, 2005) was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. Read more
A possible magnitude 15.3 supernova was discovered by S. Parker (BOSS Team) on the 30th June, 2012, in the spiral (SBc) galaxy NGC 7125 in the constellation Indus. The supernova is located 2" East and 4" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (J2000...
In 1969, while looking back over Vela 4 data just prior to the launch of Vela 5 satellite, Ray Klebesadel and Roy Olsen found an event recorded by Vela 4a,b on July 2, 1967 which also triggered the still operational Vela 3 satellites. The event appeared to be a cosmic gamma-ray burst but at the time the co...
Mururoa, and its sister atoll Fangataufa, were the site of extensive nuclear testing by France between 1966 and 1996. The first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran. Read more
