Title: Radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653 Authors: J. Li, A. Esamdin, R. N. Manchester, M. F. Qian, H. B. Niu We report on radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653, by analysing the data acquired from the Parkes 64-m telescope at 1374 MHz. The radio emissio...
Chasing UFOs - Extended Trailer A team of trained investigators sets out to uncover the truth about UFOs. But they're not just looking for more stories on extraterrestrial activity - they want answers. Two Hour Premiere TONIGHT at 9P on Nat...
A possible magnitude 14.7 R supernova was discovered in the spiral galaxy ESO 139-28 in the constellation Pavo, by the 25cm La Silla TAROT telescope on images taken on the 21st June, 2012. The supernova is located 17" West and 4" North from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is un...
Title: The Penn State-Torun Centre for Astronomy Planet Search stars. I. Spectroscopic analysis of 348 red giants Authors: P. Zielinski (1), A. Niedzielski (1), A. Wolszczan (2,3), M. Adamow (1), G. Nowak (1) ((1) Torun Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, (2) Department of As...
A Long March 2F CZ-2F rocket body that was launched on the 16th June, 2012, from the Jiuquan Launch Centre, for the Shenzhou-9 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 28th June, 2012 @ 09:00 GMT ± 72 hours.CZ-2F RB
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Title: The DWARF project: Eclipsing binaries - precise clocks to discover exoplanets Authors: T. Pribulla, M. Vanko, M. Ammler - von Eiff, M. Andreev, A. Aslantürk, N. Awadalla, D. Balu'anskı, A. Bonanno, H. Boic, G. Catanzaro, L. Celik, P. E. Christopoulou, E. Covino, F. Cusano, D. Dimitrov, P. D...
Carving found in Gower cave could be oldest rock art An archaeologist believes a wall carving in a south Wales cave could be Britain's oldest example of rock art. The faint scratchings of a speared reindeer are believed to have been carved by a hunter-gatherer in the Ice Age more than 14,000 years ago....
Title: Discovery of the largest known lensed images formed by a critically convergent lensing cluster Authors: Adi Zitrin, Tom Broadhurst We identify the largest known lensed images of a single spiral galaxy, lying close to the centre of the distant cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 (z=0.544). These im...
Astronomers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have produced the first images of the sky as seen by a prototype of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA), a revolutionary new radio telescope to be constructed in southwestern New Mexico. The images show emissions from the center of our Galaxy, a superm...
The Oldest Neolithic Bow Discovered in Europe Researchers from UAB and CSIC have discovered the oldest Neolithic bow in Europe at La Draga Neolithic site in Banyoles yields. The complete bow measures 108 cm long and was constructed using yew wood and forms part of the It is the new addition to the disc...
With his discovery of what may be the world's oldest fossil imprint of a flying insect, R.J. Knecht is tackling a new dimension of New England historyone that dates back hundreds of millions of years. What did the ecology of the Boston area look like more than 300 million years ago? This question is wha...
Mercury: at magnitude -1.7, starts the month in the constellation of Taurus. Mercury was at Perihelion on the 29th May, 2012. Mercury is in conjunction in Right Ascension with Venus on the 1st June. The Moon is close to Mercury on the 21st June, 2012. Mercury is at Dichotomy (Half phase) on the 25...
STS-71 was the third mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir, a Russian space station. The mission used Space Shuttle Atlantis, which lifted off from launch pad 39A on June 27, 1995 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.[/quote...
George David "Zambo" Zamka (born 1962) is an American NASA astronaut and United States Marine Corps pilot with over 3500 flight hours in more than 30 different aircraft. Zamka piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery in its October 2007 mission to the International Space Station and served...
Charles Joseph Precourt (born June 29, 1955) is a retired NASA astronaut. His career in flight began at an early age, and spans his entire lifetime. He served in the US Air Force, piloted numerous jet aircraft, and piloted and commanded the Space Shuttle. Read more