* Astronomy

Title: A cyclic bipolar wind in the interacting binary V393 Scorpii Authors: Ronald Mennickent, Zbigniew Kolaczkowski, Ewa Niemczura, Marcos Diaz, Michel Cure, Ignacio Araya, Geraldine Peters V393 Scorpii is a Double Periodic Variable characterised by a relatively stable non-orbital photo...

The Bristol Dinosaur comes to life in drawing competition The Bristol Dinosaur Project, based at the University of Bristol, asked entrants from around the world to recreate the Thecodontosaurus - affectionately known as Theco - who was only the fourth dinosaur to be discovered in the world. Ther...

Trees Tell Tales of Mesoamerican Megadroughts A new, detailed record of rainfall fluctuations in ancient Mexico that spans more than 12 centuries promises to improve understanding of the role drought played in the rise and fall of pre-Hispanic civilizations. Prior evidence has indicated that d...

European Space Agency (ESA) International Society for Gravitational Physiology (ISGP) Joint Life Science Meeting Life in Space for Life on Earth 18-22 June 2012 Aberdeen - United Kingdom Read more

Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas. Artemis is operated from ESA's facility at Redu, Belgium which houses the spacecraft's mission control c...

New Sunspots 11493 (top left), 11494 (bottom left), 11495 (center) and 11492 (right) captured with a 80mm refractor + webcam +Solar filter + Baader contrast booster filter + IR-cut filter [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABs...

Georgiy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (June 1, 1928 - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second Soviet crew to die during a space flight (after Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov in Soyuz 1). Read more[video=http:...

Alexander Valentinovich Zakharov (born June 1, 1941) is a Soviet and Russian chief scientist and astronomer serving at the Russian Space Research Institute (IKI). He was a lead scientist of the failed Mars missions, Mars 96 and Fobos-Grunt. Read more

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1 June 1796 - 24 August 1832) was a French military engineer who, in his 1824 book Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, gave the first successful theoretical account of heat engines, now known as the Carnot cycle; his book also laid the foundations for the second law of...

Title: Precise Modelling of the Exoplanet Host Star and CoRoT Main Target HD 52265 Authors: M. E. Escobar, S. Théado S. Vauclair, J. Ballot, S. Charpinet, N. Dolez, A. Hui-Bon-Hoa, G. Vauclair, L. Gizon, S. Mathur, P. O. Quirion, T. Stahn This paper presents a detailed and precise study of the charac...

Title: SPT-CL J0205-5829: A z = 1.32 evolved massive galaxy cluster in the south pole telescope Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect survey Authors: B. Stalder, J. Ruel, R. Suhada, M. Brodwin, K. A. Aird, K. Andersson, R. Armstrong, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, M. Bayliss, G. Bazin, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E....

Title: Observations of four glitches in the young pulsar J1833-1034 and study of its glitch activity Authors: Jayanta Roy, Yashwant Gupta, Wojciech Lewandowski We present the results from timing observations with the GMRT of the young pulsar J1833-1034, in the galactic supernova remnant G21.5...

Orbital elements: P/1994 X1 = 2012 K7 (McNaught-Russell) Epoch 2012 Dec. 19.0 TT = JDT 2456280.5 T 2012 Dec. 4.48060 TT MPC q 1.2799181 (2000.0) P Q n 0.05399587 Peri. 171.19311 +0.86099558 -0.41122522 a 6.9325928 Node 218.01180 +0.43202256 +0.90185526 e 0.8153767 Incl. 29.07902 +0.268...

China launches remote-sensing satellite The Yaogan XV remote-sensing satellite was successfully launched on Tuesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi province, according to a press release from the center. Read more

Sunspots 11490 (bottom) and 11492 (centre) captured with an 80mm refractor + Vesta Po webcam. (Solar filter + Baader contrast booster + IR-cut filter). Sunspots 11492 (bottom ri...