The Athenian coup of 411 BC was a revolutionary movement during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta that overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens by replacing it with a short-lived oligarchy known as The Four Hundred. Read more
The Helm Wind is a named wind in Cumbria, England, a north-easterly wind which blows down the south-west slope of the Cross Fell escarpment. It is the only named wind in the British Isles. It may take its name from the helmet or cap of cloud which forms above Cross Fell, known as the Helm Bar, since a line o...
The Tau Herculids are a meteor shower appearing to originate from the star Tau Herculis. The parent comet of the Tau Herculids is Schwassmann-Wachmann 3. This meteor shower occurs from May 19 - June 19, peaking on June 9. Read more
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is an American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictureson the 9th June, 1989. Read more Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
A magnitude 20.1 extragalactic nova, PTF10fqs (M99 2010-03a), was discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory in the galaxy M99, on the 16th March, 2010. The nova is located 8.1" east and 99.9" north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 12 18 50.16, Dec +14°26'39.2"...
A Wratten #25 (or Cokin #003 Red) red filter will block all other wavelengths of light below 580 nm. The filter will enhance contrast on Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn and solar (with a solar filter) features. A red eyepiece filter, such as the Wratten #25, will darken a sunspot umbra, causing it to stand o...
Intelsat Announces the Intelsat EpicNG Satellite Platform, a High Performance Enhancement to the World's Leading Commercial Satellite Fleet Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services, today introduced the Intelsat EpicNG satellite platform, a new series of satellit...
Asteroid Explosion In our viewer question, Dr. Mark Boslough uses the RedSky supercomputer at Sandia National Labs to discover what might happen if an Asteroid explodes close to the Earth. See also Kebira Crater
Club's gem and mineral show at fairgrounds The Richland Lithic and Lapidary Society's annual gem and mineral show will be 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Richland County Fairgrounds arts and crafts building, 750 N. Home Road. The show's theme is "They Came From Spac...
Nicholas Piantanida (August 15, 1932 - August 29, 1966) was a New Jersey truck driver who died after his third attempt to set a record for high-altitude parachute jumping. On May 5, 1966, during his ascent for a planned super-sonic free fall from over 120,000 feet, Piantanida's face mask depressuri...
Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre remains found Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theatre where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. The remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in 1577, were found behind a pub in Shoreditch, east London, as pa...
Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains. Some documents suggest that Beaghmore translates into English as 'the moor of the birch...
Title: Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam Authors: OPERA The OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km with much higher accuracy than pr...
Russia test-fires new Topol-M missile Russian military announced Thursday they have successfully test-fired a new version of the Topol-M series codenamed RS-12M. The rocket, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), was fired from a military base in southeast Russia, Interfax news age...
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