Real 3-D Space Combat TorchShips is a 3-D tactical space combat game based on real physics with procedurally generated single and multi-player missions. It will be released for Windows & Mac first, and then later for the iPad. This isn't your grandpa's space fighter. You're not looking out a g...
John Godolphin Bennett, (8 June 1897 - 13 December 1974) was a British mathematician, scientist, technologist, industrial research director, and author. He is perhaps best known for his many books on psychology and spirituality, and particularly the teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff. Read more
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (June 8, 1851 - December 13, 1940) was born in La Porcherie and was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study...
Lecture: "How to Build a Planet" by Dr. Meredith Hughes The discovery of extrasolar planetary systems has overturned entrenched ideas about how our own planetary system formed. Around other stars we find exotic planets like nothing we see around our Sun: hot Jupiters, super-Earths,...
Title: A peculiar Of star in the Local Group galaxy IC 1613 Authors: A. Herrero, M. Garcia, J. Puls, K. Uytterhoeven, F. Najarro, D.J. Lennon, J.G. Rivero-Gonzalez Context. Results from the theory of radiatively driven winds are incorporated in stellar evolutionary and population synthesis mod...
Laki or Lakagígar (Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure situated in the south of Iceland. On 8 June 1783, a fissure with 130 craters opened with phreatomagmatic explosions because of the groundwater interacting with the rising basalt magma. Over a few days the eruptions became less explosive, St...
Mars crater shows evidence for climate evolutionDanielson and Kalocsa craters ESA's Mars Express has provided images of a remarkable crater on Mars that may show evidence that the planet underwent significant periodic fluctuations in its climate due to changes in its rotation axis. On 19 June...
Multi-million pound new national supercomputer to perform astronomical feats The University of Leicester has been awarded funding to establish a multi-million pound national supercomputer which will make it possible to study space in unprecedented detail and provide new insights into the h...
Title: An Analysis of the Rapidly Rotating Bp Star HD 133880 Authors: J. D. Bailey, J. Grunhut, M. Shultz, G. Wade, J. D. Landstreet, D. Bohlender, J. Lim, K. Wong, S. Drake, J. Linsky, the MiMeS Collaboration HD 133880 is a rapidly rotating Bp star and host to one of the strongest magnetic fields of any...
Title: WASP-78b and WASP-79b: Two highly-bloated hot Jupiter-mass exoplanets orbiting F-type stars in Eridanus Authors: B. Smalley (Keele University), D.R. Anderson, A. Collier-Cameron, A.P. Doyle, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, P.F.L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, D....
Goddard-Led GEMS Mission to Explore the Polarised Universe An exciting new astrophysics mission led by NASAs Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., will provide a revolutionary window into the universe. Named the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS), the satellite will...
Debris from a FALCON 9 rocket body that was launched on the 22nd May, 2012, from Cape Canaveral, for the Dragon C-2 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 7th June, 2012 @ 03:20 GMT ± 24 hours.FALCON 9 RB
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Launched from Kourou in French Guiana on the night of 28 February 2002, ESA’s Envisat spacecraft marks its fifth year in space. Having orbited Earth more than 26 000 times, the world’s largest and most complex environmental satellite ever launched has travelled a distance of more than 1 000 000 000 k...
The struggle to protect Koongarra uranium is finally over There was a major victory this week in the struggle to protect the Koongarra uranium deposit in Australia's Northern Territory. The Northern Land Council, which represents native title claimants in the Arnhem Land region of Northern Ter...
A #58 Green filter (24% transmission) rejects red and blue wavelengths. The filter is usually used to increase contrast on Venus, or the Martian polar ice caps; but it does a reasonable job of increasing contrast on nebulae. The filter, centred around the 530 nanometres spectral region, includes...
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