Alleged 'fireball' streaks across sky West Monroe resident Obie Sims said he was enjoying a relaxing evening outdoors Thursday when he saw what appeared to be a huge bottle rocket streak across the sky about 10:45 p.m. About a minute later, Sims said he heard a loud boom and his windows shook. [url=ht...
Hubble Sees a Vapour of Stars Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous clouds of vapour. One of these galaxies is DDO 82, captured here in an imag...
The Toolache Wallaby or Grey's Wallaby (Macropus greyi) is an extinct species of wallaby from south-eastern South Australia and South-western Victoria. Read more (Extinct, 30 June 1939) Film recording the South Australian Toolache Wallaby in 1936 by BC Cotton Read more
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, FRS (30 June 1817 - 10 December 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend. He was Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty y...
Want to save lives? Keen to find out what's lurking in the nether regions of space, or in the deepest ocean trench? Passionate about the environment! Read more Science: It's a Girl Thing ! Thi...
Soyuz 11, launched on the 6th June, 1971, was the first successful visit to the world's first space station, Salyut 1. However the mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-man crew Read more
The Regina Cyclone is the popular name for a tornado that devastated the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on June 30, 1912. At about 4:50 p.m., green funnel clouds formed and touched down south of the city, tearing a swath through the residential area between Wascana Lake and Victoria Avenue and...
A total solar eclipse occurred on June 30, 1954. Totality began at sunrise over the United States over Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and crossed into Canada, across southern Greenland, and Iceland, then into Europe, across Sweden, Norway, and eastern Europe. It ended before...
NASA's WMAP Project Completes Satellite Operations After nine years of scanning the sky, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has concluded its observations of the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe. The spacecraft has not only given scient...
An asteroid impacted in Ohio, US about 300 million years ago.
There is an approximately 6.4 kilometre diameter astrobleme just slightly to the northeast of the Serpent Mound*, near where the three counties, Adams, Pike and Highland come together.
The present elevation of the central...
Athanassios Spyridon Fokas (b. June 30, 1952) is a Greek mathematician, known for work in the field of integrable nonlinear partial differential equations. Read more
The 220 - 480 metre wide asteroid 2004 CL will make a close pass (43.3 lunar distances, 0.1113 AU), travelling at 20.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th June, 2012 @ 17:15 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
