Alice Pleasance Liddell (4 May 1852 - 16 November 1934), known for most of her adult life by her married name, Alice Hargreaves, inspired the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, whose protagonist Alice is said to be named after her. Read more[video=http://ww...
The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant. The chemical fire and subsequent explosions claimed two lives, injured 372 people, and caused an estimated US$100 million of d...
May 4 is considered a holiday by Star Wars fans to celebrate Star Wars culture and honour the films. May 4 is called Star Wars Day because of the popularity of a common pun spoken on this day. Since the phrase "May the Force be with you"...
Lightning-made Waves in Earth's Atmosphere Leak Into Space At any given moment about 2,000 thunderstorms roll over Earth, producing some 50 flashes of lightning every second. Each lightning burst creates electromagnetic waves that begin to circle around Earth captured between Earth's surfac...
Nepal forest fires 'cause big wildlife loss' Protected areas in Nepal and northern India have been affected by forest fires, with at least one suffering huge wildlife losses, officials have said. They say nearly 70% of Nepal's Bardiya National Park has been consumed fire in the past few days. [url=...
Title: SN 2009kn - The Twin of the Type IIn SN 1994W Authors: E. Kankare, M. Ergon, F. Bufano, J. Spyromilio, S. Mattila, N. N. Chugai, P. Lundqvist, A. Pastorello, R. Kotak, S. Benetti, M-T. Botticella, R. J. Cumming, C. Fransson, M. Fraser, G. Leloudas, M. Miluzio, J. Sollerman, M. Stritzinger, M. T...
Title: Radio and X-ray observations of SN 2006jd: Another strongly interacting Type IIn supernova Authors: Poonam Chandra, Roger A. Chevalier, Nikolai Chugai, Claes Fransson, Christopher M. Irwin, Alicia M. Soderberg, Sayan Chakraborti, Stefan Immler We report four years of radio and X-ray m...
Orbital elements: 2011 CO2 Earth MOID = 0.2367 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 353.82759 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36755873 Peri. 355.23325 -0.20140616 -0.83929853 a 1.9301226 Node 105.69134 +0.91512919 -0.34505661 e 0.3682326 Incl. 31.63706 +0.34924793 +0.42013559 P 2.68 H 18.7 G 0.15 U 9 M...
Austrian Space Forum successfully tests Mars suit 'Aouda.X' in Spain - Maiden trip for ESA's Mars rover 'Eurobot' A team from the Austrian Space Forum (OEWF) will arrive back in Austria today following a week testing its analogue space suit "Aouda.X2 in the semi-desert of Rio Tinto in Spain. T...
Title: HD 51106 and HD 50747: an ellipsoidal binary and a triple system observed with CoRoT Authors: N. Dolez, S. Vauclair, E. Michel, A. Hui Bon Hua, G. Vauclair, D. Le Contel, P. Mathias, E. Poretti, P. J. Amado, M. Rainer, R. Samadi, A. Baglin, C. Catala, M. Auvergne, K. Uytterhoeven, J. C. Valtier W...
Sunspots 11474 (top) and 11471 captured with a 80mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader Solar filter + IR-cut filter. Sunspots 11471 (top), 11472, 11469 (bottom) and 11473 ...
The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Centre awarded United Launch Alliance a contract modification to perform the launch services for the U.S. Navy's first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite aboard an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The anticipated launch date is t...
A Chang Zheng-3B rocket with two Beidou "Compass" (2-M3 and 2-M4) navigation satellites is scheduled to launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 20:50 UT, 29th April, 2012.
Radio 4 launches experiment on nasty noises An 18-year-old amateur scientist is launching a national experiment to test our reactions to horrible noises. Izzy Thomlinson, from Shropshire, wants to find out why some people are more sensitive than others to sounds like scraping cutlery and squea...
James Stanley Hey FRS (3 May 1909 - 27 February 2000) was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he lay the basis for the development of radio astronomy . He discovered that the Sun radiates radio waves and localised f...
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