First multilingual dictionary based on universal words Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrids School of Computing have developed an original system for building multilingual dictionaries based on multiple term equivalences from what are known as universal words. System reli...
A Last Quarter Moon captured at 3:40 UT, 12th May, 2012, with a 80mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + Revelation IR-cut Filter. Captured in colour mode.
Indias first student rocket successful Bad weather forced the launch schedule to be tweaked a little bit, but India's first 'student rocket' successfully took to the leaden skies from Thumba late Friday evening. And if things work out, Thumba would witness a student rocket launch every year. Bui...
India became the sixth member of the exclusive club to have developed a cryogenic stage in rocketry when it successfully tested a full-fledged cryogenic stage for 50 seconds at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu on Saturday evening.
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A new large sunspot has emerged over the Suns eastern limb. Sunspots 11475 (left) and 11474 also captured with a 80mm F6 achromatic refractor + Solar filter + Vista Pro webcam with IR-cut filter. [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Adler Planetarium is located on Lake Shore Drive at Chicago's Museum Campus. Opened in 1930 as the first planetarium in the western hemisphere. Adler Planetarium Click to Play | View Details
The Moon The stars about the lovely moon Fade back and vanish very soon, When, round and full, her silver face Swims into sight, and lights all space. - Sappho
...bidding $250,000 for a car, sight unseen? Now that really is a giant leap into the unknown. Which is kind of appropriate as, apparently, the item bid up to that stratospheric level is a 1967 Corvette whose first owner was none other than Neil Armstrong. It's not as if the 'Vette is in sparkling condi...
Museum aims to make planetarium a star Not all the dinosaurs at the Museum of the Rockies are the "Jurassic Park" kind. The museum's Taylor Planetarium uses star-show technology that's so out of date, it was called a "dinosaur" at Thursday's annual meeting of museum members...
Title: Calcium Emission in Interacting Binary Be Stars Authors: Pavel Koubský, Lenka Kotková, Viktor Votruba, Mirek lechta, Petr koda, Petr Harmanec, Jana Nemravová, Klára ejnová, árka Dvoráková, Daniela Korcáková Polidan (1976) suggested that Be stars showing the CaII IR triplet in emissio...
Title: Early Optical Polarisation of Forward Shock Afterglow of GRB 091208B Authors: T. Uehara, K. Toma, K. S. Kawabata, S. Chiyonobu, Y. Fukazawa, Y. Ikejiri, T. Inoue, R. Itoh, T. Komatsu, H. Miyamoto, T. Mizuno, O. Nagae, H. Nakaya, T. Ohsugi, K. Sakimoto, M. Sasada, H. Tanaka, M. Uemura, M. Yama...
The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz (district of Kraków). It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world. A royal charter of foundation was issued on 12 May 13...
Orbital elements:
2012 JQ Earth MOID = 0.0394 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 351.54059 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29123364 Peri. 151.05554 -0.96244291 +0.26196189
a 2.2541096 Node 44.32041 -0.26456665 -0.84613718
e 0.5462373 Incl. 5.85493 -0.06089448 -0.46414204
P 3.38 H 23.1 G 0....
A possible magnitude 12.5 nova was discovered by T. Kojima (Japan) on the 23rd April, 2012, in the constellation Sagittarius. Position (J2000): R.A. 18 11 03.75 | Dec. -27° 17' 27.6''
Japanese astronomy professor found murdered in Chile A 58-year-old Japanese professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan was found collapsed Monday outside his apartment in the Chilean capital of Santiago and later confirmed dead in the hospital, NAOJ said Tuesday. [url=http...
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