Fourth Summit of the Pacific Alliance takes place at ESO's Paranal Observatory The presidents of Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru met today at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile, seeing first hand the state-of-the-art telescopes and technology of ESO's flagship site. The p...
Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky (June 7, 1894 - August 24, 1974) was a Russian-American aviation pioneer, inventor, and influential advocate of strategic air power. Read more
Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard (June 7, 1862 - May 20, 1947), -German physicist and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905 for his research on cathode rays and the discovery of many of their properties. He was also an active proponent of Nazi ideology. Read more
Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte (June 7, 1879-August 20, 1963) was a Dutch astronomer. In 1913 he gained a post at the Cape Observatory in South Africa, where he worked on double stars and parallax measurements. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1917. His preliminary account of the para...
CID-42: A Black Hole Slingshot?
Evidence for a recoiling black hole has been found using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, XMM-Newton, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and several ground-based telescopes. This black hole kickback was caused either by a slingshot effect produced in a t...
This image of Mt. Pinatubo was taken by the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Daichi in November 2006. The figure looks dark green for the most part, indicating that the area is covered with forest or jungle. There is a large lak...
Iran space centre now '80% complete' Iran's new space centre, which will be used to launch both its own and other Islamic nations' satellites, is now 80% complete according to news reports. Currently, Iran has two space exploration facilities - a launch centre near Semnan, 200 kilometres east of T...
The Appleby Horse Fair is a horse fair which is held annually at Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria (until 1974 and historically Westmorland) in England. It is held every year in early June and has taken place since the reign of James II, who granted a Royal charter in 1685 allowing a horse fair "n...
Title: Testing hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy cluster ms 2137 Authors: I-Non Chiu, Sandor M. Molnar, Pisin Chen We test the assumption of strict hydrostatic equilibrium in galaxy cluster MS2137.3-2353 (MS 2137) using the latest CHANDRA X-ray observations and results from a combined strong...
The Geological Fingerprint of War Earle McBride and Dane Picard were travelling across France doing geologic field work in 1988 when they took time out to play tourists at Omaha Beach, site of one of the most ferocious battles during the D-Day invasion more than 40 years earlier. It was a miserably c...
In everyday life the number of dimensions refers to the minimum number of measurements required to specify the position of an object, such as latitude, longitude and altitude. Implicit in this definition is that space is smooth and obeys the laws of classical physics. But what if space is not so well...
Not every physicist has to wear a hard hat to work. But when Stanford University physics professor Mark Kasevich and two of his graduate students, Jason Hogan and David Johnson, descend into the 25-foot pit containing their experiment, they take the necessary precautions. Located in the basement...
Big Fireball over Western Oklahoma - 6 June 2012Credit desertengineer1 Big event over Western Oklahoma, visible from Oklahoma City. Time was recorded as 03:11:00 Z (10:11:00 Central)
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