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The North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) is formed by The United States and Canada on the 1st August, 1957. Read more

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Signy Island is hottest place in the Antarctic A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) committee of experts announces this week (Wed 1 March) new records for the highest temperatures recorded in the Antarctic Region. The results are part of continuing efforts to expand a database of extreme we...

Remnants of a mega-flood on Mars ESA's Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on the Red Planet. The Kasei Valles channel system extends around 3000 km from its source region in Echus Chasma - which lies east of the bulging volcanic region Tharsis and just nort...

Title: Discovery of a Giant Stellar Tidal Stream Around the Disk Galaxy NGC 4013 Authors: David Martinez-Delgado (1,2), Michael Pohlen (3), R. Jay Gabany (4), Steven R. Majewski (5), Jorge Penarrubia (6), Chris Palma (7) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias E, (2) Max-Planck Institut fuer A...

Sunspots 12641, 12640 and 12638 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Expand (188kb, 1024 x 768) Messier 51, The Whirlpool Galaxy Exposure: 9 seconds Date: 2 June 2006

Image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Orbital elements: 2012 DR32 Earth MOID = 0.0057 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 294.41051 (2000.0) P Q n 1.18336044 Peri. 312.07301 +0.40391603 +0.90975953 a 0.8852339 Node 341.07814 -0.72752010 +0.25593029 e 0.4852115 Incl. 17.19441 -0.55458664 +0.32685972 P 0.83 H 24....

Sunspots 12641, 12640 and 12638 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Two scientific vessels launched in sea trials Two new vessels for scientific investigation, built from the keel up by China, were launched in Shanghai on Tuesday for sea trials. Construction of Ocean Geology VIII and Ocean Geology IX was started by Shanghai Shipyard Co in October 2015, and the vess...

The 610 - 1400 metre wide asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 will make a close pass (60.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1561 AU), travelling at 6.58 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th May, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distanc...

At least four new BeiDou-2 (Compass) satellites will be launched in 2009 by the team at the China Satellite Navigation Project Center. And a Russian launch vehicle will carry a Chinese micro-satellite into space in late 2009. If everything goes according to plan, Yinghuo-1, China's first Mars pro...

Broody octopus keeps record-breaking four-year vigil For four years and five months, she clung to the rock and guarded her eggs. In a feat that surely made good use of all eight arms, an octopus revealed a new secret of deep sea life when ecologists observed her record-breaking behaviour from a robot...

SnapPlanet app wins top prize at Space App Camp Developers of an app that combines the increasing availability of satellite images with social networking took home the top prize at this years Space App Camp in Barcelona. The App Camp offers access to the latest space data and the SAP Cloud Platform to...