Thomas Young (13 June 1773 - 10 May 1829) was an English polymath. He is famous for having partly deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics (specifically the Rosetta Stone) before Jean-François Champollion eventually expanded on his work. He was admired by, among others, Herschel, Helmholtz, Maxwell...
Mir Mine also called Mirny Mine is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Eastern Siberia, Russia. The mine was discovered on June 13, 1955 by Soviet geologists Yuri Khabardin, Ekaterina Elagina and Viktor Avdeenko during the large Amakinsky Expedition in Yakut ASSR. Read more Yakutia. Mirny...
Asteroid (138) Tolosa is a brightly coloured, stony main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Henri Joseph Perrotin on May 19, 1874, and named after the Latin for Toulouse, France. Read more EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El....
The Gossamer Albatross was a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment. On June 12, 1979 it completed a successful crossing of the English Channel to win the second Kremer prize. Read more[video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke...
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, FRS (12 June 1851 - 22 August 1940) was a British physicist and writer involved in the development of key patents in wireless telegraphy. In his 1894 Royal Institution lectures ("The Work of Hertz and Some of His Successors"), Lodge coined the term "coherer...
Margarita Marinova (SETI Talks) One of the largest features on Mars is its hemispheric dichotomy: the difference in crater density, elevation (~4 km), and crustal thickness (~30 km) between the Northern Lowlands and the Southern Highl...
CU-Boulder researchers catalogue more than 635,000 Martian craters It's no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot poundi...
UW-Madison: Inaugurates first overseas office in Shanghai The University of Wisconsin-Madison Shanghai Innovation Office, which will serve as a focal point for the university's growing engagement in China and across East Asia, officially opened today. A Wisconsin delegation led by UW-Madi...
Vladimir Igorevich Arnold (12 June 1937 - 3 June 2010) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. While he is best known for the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical syste...
On this day in 1967, the Venera 4 spacecraft was launched. Venera 4 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera-4 was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_4]Rea...
Asteroid (1761) Edmondson will transit Jupiter on the 12th June 2012. 2012-06-12 05:37:54 UT Magnitude: 22.7 Distance: 3.7446 AU Solar distance: 2.8247 AU Position (J2000): R.A. 03 52 22.693 | Dec. +19°24'37.07"
NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found t...
ESA opens Landsat archives Over 30 years of archived data from the US Landsat Earth-observing satellites are now available, free of charge. The majority of these products are unique to ESA's archive and have never before been accessible anywhere else by the scientific user community. In its archi...
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