James Hutton FRSE (Edinburgh, 3 June 1726 OS (14 June 1726 NS) - 26 March 1797) was a Scottish physician, geologist, naturalist, chemical manufacturer and experimental agriculturalist. His work helped to establish the basis of modern geology. His theories of geology and geologic time, also call...
Canada's cutting-edge meteorite research may soon be on the rocks Rocks do fall from the sky, and Canada's meteorite experts have built themselves into a world power in the specialised field of studying them. Claire Samson is one of these people, a professor of earth sciences at Carleton Universit...
From Friday 1st June to Sunday 17th June, Adur will come alive with arts, music, exhibitions, taster sessions, walks, performances and lots of other activities for the whole family. Read more
The sun has two prominent element spectral lines: Hydrogen Alpha and the Calcium K-line (at 3933 Angstroms). A hydrogen-alpha filter, or H-Alpha filter, blocks all parts of the solar spectrum except the alpha spectral line of Hydrogen at 656.281nm (6562.8 Angstroms), and allows you to see fine de...
Earth's neighbouring star 'discovered' Planetary scientists claim to have uncovered a new stellar neighbour with the discovery of the closest young star to Earth. An international team has carried out a research and shown that the star, named AP Columbae, is the closest so- called "pre mai...
Surveyor 1 - America's first soft lunar landing Surveyor 1 was the first in a series of seven US missions to the Moon that preceded Apollo; five of the seven missions were successful. Surveyor 1 was launched on May 30, 1966, and landed on June 2, 1966. The mission's objectives were to soft land on the Moo...
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (June 2, 1930 - July 8, 1999) was an American engineer, U.S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and the third person to walk on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission. He set an eight-day space endurance record along with command pilot Gordon Cooper on the Gemini 5 mi...
Heather Anita Couper CBE CPhys (born 2 June 1949) is a British astronomer who popularised astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television. She is a former president of the British Astronomical Association from 1984 to 1986. She is the astronomy correspondent for The Independent newspaper....
The 390 - 870 metre wide asteroid 2007 LE will make a close pass (18.6 lunar distances, 0.0478 AU), travelling at 19.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd June, 2012 @ 07:25 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
World Roma festival begins in Prague They call it the biggest Roma culture festival in the world, and it's back in Prague for the 14th year. The Khamoro, or World Roma Festival, means nine days of some of the best gypsy bands from all corners of Europe, but also a wide array of cultural and sociological...
A possible magnitude 13.6 supernova was discovered on the 22nd December, 2009, in the spiral galaxy UGC8255 (MCG+02-34-002) in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 36' East and 50' North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 03 10 58.95, Dec +11 29 29.3
The nova X Serpentis (Nova Ser 1903) is in outburst. Date: 30 May, 2012. Magnitude: 14.84 V Magnitude range: 8.9 -17 V Nova X Ser reached a maximum photographic magnitude of 8.9 in May 1903. My examination of images taken last night with AAVSONET K35, shows the old nova X Ser rising to what appears to be...
Chandra X-ray telescope observations of the massive spiral galaxy NGC 5746 in the constellation Virgo, have revealed a large halo of hot gas (blue) surrounding the optical disk of the galaxy (white). The halo extends more than 60,000 light years on either side of the disk of...
