Unravelling the Mystery of Star Birth - Dust Disk Discovered Around Massive Star Astronomers caught their first glimpse of a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller counterparts. The discovery was made t...
The National University of San Marcos (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM) is the most important and respected higher-education institution in Peru. Its main campus, the University City, is located in Lima. It was chartered on May 12, 1551 by a royal decree signed by Charles...
WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a rich visualisation environment that functions as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space telescopes in the world for a seamless, guided exploration of the universe. WorldWide Telescope, created with Microsoft's high-perf...
The Z3 was an electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine. On 12 May 1941 the Z3 was presented to an audience of scientists including the professors Alfred Teichmann and C. Schmieden of the Deutsche Versuch...
NASA's Wise Mission Discovers Coolest Class of Stars Scientists using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body. Astronomers hunted these dark orbs, termed Y dwarfs, for more th...
A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 03:16:09 (UTC) on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, in the Fuji Region, 115-km SSW of Sigave, at a depth of 29.3 km.
Location 15.271°S, 178.569°W
Title: Spitzer Observations of Transient, Extended Dust in Two Elliptical Galaxies: New Evidence of Recent Feedback Energy Release in Galactic Cores Authors: Pasquale Temi, Fabrizio Brighenti, William G. Mathews Spitzer observations of extended dust in two optically normal elliptical gala...
Scientists who want to measure the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have run into an accountant's worst nightmare: They know how much carbon dioxide we're producing, but they don't know where it's all going. Those scientists' hopes for finding the missing carbon dioxide were dashed when the Jet Prop...
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook the border region in India's northeast according to the country's meteorology department.
There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties from the quake, the epicentre was traced to the border between India's Arunachal Pradesh state and Bhutan.
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UV-IR CUT filter will block undesirable ultraviolet and infrared rays that may interfere with the image. The filter will remove the IR chromatic aberration in lens imaging systems, and give pinpoint star images with digital and CCD-equipment. This is especially important where the digital imag...
This experiment is being run by citizen scientist William Rudling for BBC Radio 4's 'So You Want To Be A Scientist?'. The aim of our experiment is to find out whether people who have similar faces also have similar voices. Read more
6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago - one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland. Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden on Fanore Beach in north Clare have...
IGR J16318-4848 Astronomers have found a new class of objects in space: a neutron star orbiting inside a cocoon of cold gas and/or dust that hides a bloated supergiant star. In a strange twist of fate, these objects may be tremendously luminous, but the enshrouding cocoon absorbs almost all their em...
Title: Planets Around Low-Mass Stars (PALMS). I. A Substellar Companion to the Young M Dwarf 1RXS J235133.3+312720 Authors: Brendan P. Bowler, Michael C. Liu, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Trent J. Dupuy, Lucas A. Cieza, Adam L. Kraus, Motohide Tamura We report the discovery of a brown dwarf companion to t...
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