* Astronomy

Stockholm: Birth of the green generation Economically, the world has never had it so good. But governments are beginning to realise that nature is paying a price. On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Envi...

Partial Eclipse of the Strawberry Moon On Monday, June 4th, the Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific from China to the United States. The eclipse will be visible through...

A host of Sunspots; 11496 (top center left), 11499 (top left), 11494 (bottom left) and 11497 (bottom right) captured with a 80mm refractor + webcam +Solar filter + Baader contrast booster filter + IR-cut filter

The surface of Venus is perpetually covered by a veil of thick clouds and remains hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of earth-bound astronomers. But in the early 1990s, using imaging radar, the V...

A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 18:38:19 (UTC) on Saturday, August 27, 2005, South of Panama at a Depth of 10 km. Location 6.678°N, 82.278°W

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Dick Pugh, an international renowned scientist with the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University, will be in Eastern Oregon the week of June 20. He will be presenting a PowerPoint program showing meteorites and recent meteorite findings in rural Oregon that have attracted the...

A dramatic new image from the Gemini North telescope illustrates the dynamic and sometimes violent process of star birth. It also demonstrates the capabilities of new filters available to researchers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Known as Sharpless 2-106 (Sh2-106), the h...

A magnitude 16.4 Type Ia supernova (at near maximum) was discovered in the spiral galaxy PGC 052836, in the constellation Virgo, on the 23rd May, 2012, by the LaSilla/QUEST Survey The supernova is located 11" west and 0" north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 14 47 48.48...

The Odessa crater was formed by a spectacular collision with our planet of an iron meteorite 63,500 years ago. The Odessa meteorite, named after the town ten miles southwest in western Texas not far from the southeastern corner of New Mexico carved out five clustered craters, four small ones an...

A H-IIA rocket body that was launched on the 28th March, 2003, from the Tanegashima Space Centre, for the IGS 1A and IGS 1B satellite missions is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 8th June, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.H-2A RB 1 27700U 03009C 12149.19884267 .01032379 70982-3 80735...

Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 7th manned Gemini flight, the 13th manned American flight and the 23rd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometres). Read more Launch date June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC

Orbital elements: C/2011 U3 (PANSTARRS) T 2012 June 2.29657 TT MPC q 1.0488275 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 288.57212 +0.10333079 -0.73543629 Node 228.37697 -0.13736001 -0.67737278 e 1.0 Incl. 116.38341 -0.98511673 +0.01730832 From 36 observations 2011 Oct. 24-30. MPEC 2011 - U107 Comet P/2011...

Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135-F in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m deep. On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in one of largest oil spills in h...

Bellona was an Ancient Roman goddess of war, similar to the Ancient Greek Enyo. Bellona's attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet and armed with a spear and a torch. Bellona's festival was celebrated on June 3 Read more