Karl Ferdinand Braun (6 June 1850 - 20 April 1918) was a German inventor, physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Braun contributed significantly to the development of the radio and television technology: he shared with Guglielmo Marconi the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more
David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American engineer, test pilot, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and former NASA astronaut and engineer, who was one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. As an astronaut, Scott became the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Rea...
Development work on India's surface to air Akash guided missile has been completed and the system is ready for trials by the Indian Air Force.
"After the user trials, the missile will enter production and induction" - Defence Minister A K Antony.
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Title: GRB 120422A: A Low-luminosity Gamma-ray Burst Driven by Central Engine Authors: Bin-Bin Zhang, Yi-Zhong Fan, Rong-Feng Shen, Dong Xu, Fu-Wen Zhang, Da-Ming Wei, David N. Burrows, Bing Zhang GRB 120422A is a low-luminosity Gamma-ray burst (GRB) associated with a bright supernova, which...
Title: Behaviour of Jupiter Non-Trojan Co-Orbitals Authors: Pawel Wajer, Malgorzata Królikowska Searching for the non-Trojan Jupiter co-orbitals we have numerically integrated orbits of 3,160 asteroids and 24 comets discovered by October 2010 and situated within and close to the planet co-...
Title: KIC 1718290: A Helium-rich V1093-Her-like Pulsator on the Blue Horizontal Branch Authors: Roy H. Ostensen, Pieter Degroote, John H. Telting, Joris Vos, Conny Aerts, C. Simon Jeffery, Elizabeth M. Green, Mike D. Reed, Ulirich Heber We introduce the first g-mode pulsator found to reside on...
Spy telescopes could help NASA pin down dark energy The telescopes were designed for spying down on the Earth, but the Pentagon decided they weren't needed after all and in January 2011 offered them to NASA. The space agency has since been contemplating its windfall, and on 4 June unveiled a plan to u...
Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 - 6 July 1476), today best known by his Latin toponym Regiomontanus, was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, translator, instrument maker and Catholic bishop. Read more
Looking for a record of earthquakes in Poverty Bay Looking to the past for a complete record of earthquakes in Poverty Bay Scientists have been working on ways to find out about earthquakes that occurred before oral and written records began in New Zealand. [url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories...
Clanfield Observatory has come up with a host of events to coincide with the first International Year of Astronomy. This year, 2009, is the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical use of a telescope by Galileo to study the night sky. The Spring Moon Watch from March 28 to April 5 is the best time of y...
Title: An investigation of GSC 02038-00293, a suspected RS CVn star, using CCD photometry Authors: Tony Rodda, Alastair Bruce, Stewart Cruickshank, Mark Salisbury We present the results of differential, time series photometry for GSC 02038-00293, a suspected RS CVn binary, using data collect...
Wheaton College opens observatory for rare Transit of Venus The Wheaton College Astronomical Observatory is opening at 4:30 p.m. today to provide free viewings of the Transit of Venus. Read more
Title: On the mass of the neutron star in V395 Car/2S 0921-630 Authors: D.Steeghs (Warwick/CfA), P.G.Jonker (SRON/CfA) (Version v2) We report high-resolution optical spectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary V395 Car/2S 0921-630 obtained with the MIKE echelle spectrograph on the Magellan-C...
