The Soviet Venera 6 spacecraft was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (69-002C) on January 10, 1969 towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft began its descent into the atmosphere of Venus on the 17th May, 1969. Read more
A Timelapse of Planet Earth, October 2011 to March 2012 A time-lapse of Planet Earth, created from images produced by the geostationary Electro-L Weather Satellite. The images were obtained from October 14th, 2011 to April 1st, 2012. Th...
Make Your Own Simple Spectroscope Would you like to see the colour in white light? It is quite easy to create a simple spectroscope using inexpensive items that can be found around your house. Read more
Title: The bipolar outflow and disk of the brown dwarf ISO217 Authors: V. Joergens, A. Pohl, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, Th. Henning (ITA/ZAH Heidelberg, MPIA Heidelberg, Universidad de Madrid) We show that the very young brown dwarf candidate ISO217 (M6.25) is driving an intrinsically asymmetric bip...
The Wildlife Trusts celebrate centenary year The movement that led to the formation of the Wildlife Trusts is 100 years old on Wednesday. Banker and naturalist Charles Rothschild bought Woodwalton Fen in Camridgeshire in 1910, founding the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves on 16 May 1...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for three features on Mars. Aeolis Mons for a 88.99-km-wide Martian mountain located at -5.08°S, 137.8°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature. Aeolis Palus for a 111.63-km-wide Martian plain l...
Title: High-Contrast NIR Polarization Imaging of MWC480 Authors: N. Kusakabe, C. A. Grady, M. L. Sitko, J. Hashimoto, T. Kudo, M. Fukagawa, T. Muto, J. P. Wisniewski, M. Min, S. Mayama, C. Werren, A. N. Day, L. C. Beerman, D. K. Lynch, R. W. Russell, S. M. Brafford, M. Kuzuhara, T. D. Brandt, L. Abe, W. B...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 7:00 pm Tickets available on Tuesday, May 22. Many attempts to create a unified theory of the universe using relativity and quantum mechanics suggest that time as we seem to experience it does not exist - it may be only a well-founded illusion. The idea of a timeless univers...
Title: Anderson and Stoner Published White Dwarf Mass Limits Before Chandrasekhar Authors: Eric G. Blackman (Univ. of Rochester) In their engaging recountals of Chandrasekhar's extraordinary career (Physics Today, vol 63, Issue 12, Dec 2010), neither Dyson nor Wali mention that Chandrasekh...
A Russian Zenit 3F rocket with a Fregat-SB upper stage is scheduled to launch the geosynchronous Electro-L 1 hydrometeorological satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 12:27 GMT, 25th December, 2010. The satellite will poerate from a geostationary orbit at the nominal locatio...
Sunspots 11476 (top right),11479, 11482 (right), 11477 and 11478 (bottom) captured with an 80mm f6 refractor with a Vista pro webcam + Solar filter (film) + baader contrast booster filter + Revelation IR-cut filter. [video=http://ww...
UMD Finding May Hold Key to Gaia Theory of Earth as Living Organism Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulphur could allow scientists to unlock her...
Dafydd Rhys "Dave" Williams (born May 16, 1954) is a Canadian physician and a retired CSA astronaut. He had two spaceflights, both of which were Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight, STS-90 in 1998, was a 16-day mission aboard Space Shuttle Columbia dedicated to neuroscience...
Johannes Georg Bednorz (born May 16, 1950) is a physicist at the IBM Zürich Research Laboratory. He is best known for his role in the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, for which he shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics. Read more
Nancy Grace Roman (born May 16, 1925) is an American astronomer. Throughout her career, Roman has also been an active public speaker and educator, and an advocate for women in the sciences. Roman worked at NASA from 1959 to 1979, where she was the first chief of astronomy in the Office of Space Science...
