British aviators Alcóck and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919. They flew a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. Winston Churchill presented them with the Daily Mail prize for the firs...
Koichi Nishiyama and Fujio Kabashima, from Japan have discovered a magnitude 8 Nova in Cygnus on CCD images taken on April 10th. IMAGE (117kb, 618 x 645) Position(2000): R.A. = 19h 43m 01.96s...
Hawaii telescope sees what could be oldest galaxy A team of Japanese astronomers using telescopes on Hawaii say they've seen the oldest galaxy, a discovery that's competing with other "earliest galaxy" claims. The Japanese team calculates its galaxy was formed 12.91 billion light-...
Orbital elements:
2012 LJ2 Earth MOID = 0.1531 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 348.67187 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40562406 Peri. 94.84758 -0.82456151 +0.01279442
a 1.8073971 Node 86.73632 -0.25907167 -0.89731072
e 0.5390800 Incl. 34.50975 +0.50297136 -0.44121399
P 2.43 H 21.6 G 0...
The FLOYDS spectrograph sees first light at FTS, and types its first supernova The first Folded Low Order whYte-pupil Double-dispersed Spectrograph (FLOYDS, for short) was commissioned at Faulkes Telescope South (FTS) at Siding Spring Observatory during the first two weeks of May, and first l...
Title: The quasar-galaxy cross SDSS J1320+1644: A probable large-separation lensed quasar Authors: Cristian E. Rusu, Masamune Oguri, Masanori Iye, Naohisa Inada, Issha Kayo, Min-Su Shin, Dominique Sluse, Michael A. Strauss We report the discovery of a pair of quasars at z=1.487, with a separa...
Japan has postponed the launch of a third spy satellite due to a technical glitch.
The satellite will spy on communist North Korea for at least six months.
Japan launched two spy satellites in March 2003.
The third was set to be launched this year but a government committee postponed it because...
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Astronomers have detected a faint glow from the first stars to form in the Universe, Nature journal reports.
This earliest group of stars, called Population III, probably formed from primordial gas less than 200 million years after the Big Bang.
These objects cannot be seen by an...
A magnitude 16.3 (and rising), Supernova 2005ke, was discovered on November 13th, 2005 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, in the galaxy NGC 1371, located 40" east and 40" south of the centre.
Position(20...
Medford Won't Turn Out Lights For Stargazers Stargazers in Medford will have to head out of town to find the night time darkness they need to watch this summer's Perseid meteor shower. The Mail Tribune reports that the City Council voted last week to drop the idea of turning out streetlights in some w...
The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 13 June 1886. The fire began as a brush fire to clear land between present-day Main and Cambie Streets that was spread out of control by a strong gale. Dozens of li...
In ancient Roman religion, the Quinquatrus Minusculae or Quinquatrus Minores was a festival sacred to Minerva, celebrated on the Ides of June, on which the tibicines went through the city in procession to the temple of Minerva. Read more
Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or Mueller) (June 13, 1911, in Berlin - May 17, 1977, in Washington D.C.) was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He was the first person to experimentally obs...
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