NASA's WISE Catches Aging Star Erupting With Dust Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the process by which stars l...
Title: More on the Evidence for a Bubble Universe with a Mass ~10^21 solar masses Authors: Michael J. Longo This is a very informal report that gives further details on the evidence for a bubble universe based on an anomaly in the angular distribution of quasar magnitudes that was presented in a short...
Orbital elements:
2012 HH20 Earth MOID = 0.0496 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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The 10 stones and recumbent are set in a circle 19.5 m in diameter: the area had been levelled before the stones were erected. Around each standing stone are small stone settings, some of which contained cremation burials and fragments of deliberately smashed pottery. [url=http://www.aberdeens...
Title: A Jet Break in the X-ray Light Curve of Short GRB 111020A: Implications for Energetics and Rates Authors: Wen-fai Fong, Edo Berger, Raffaella Margutti, B. Ashley Zauderer (Harvard), Eleonora Troja (NASA-GSFC), Ian Czekala, Ryan Chornock (Harvard), Neil Gehrels, Takanori Sakamoto (NAS...
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalogue (HEC) is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalogue uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify, rank, and compare exoplanets, including their po...
Michael Fish MBE (born 27 April 1944 in Eastbourne, East Sussex) is a semi-retired British weather forecaster, best known for his BBC Weather television presentations, although he was actually employed by the Met Office. Read more
The Battle of Mactan was fought in the Philippines on April 27, 1521. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a native chieftain of Mactan Island, defeated Spanish forces under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle. Read more ...
NASA Announces 14th International Space Station Crew
NASA astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin have been named as the 14th crew of the International Space Station. Expedition 14 is scheduled to begin this fall.
Lopez-Aleg...
NASA Astrophysicist Sten Odenwald to Discuss a Rare Astronomical Event: Transit of Venus The public is invited to a free lecture being held at the Library of Congress, about the rare Venus transit event. On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will move across the face of the sun. Such transits of Venus are a...
Orbital elements:
2012 HD20 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0441 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
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Orbital elements:
2012 HC20 Earth MOID = 0.1149 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 330.03419 (2000.0) P Q
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A Chang Zheng (Long March) 3B/E rocket with the APSTAR7 telecommunications satellite was successfully launched from the Xichang satellite launch center at 10:27 GMT, 31st March, 2012. The satellite will operate at the geostationary orbital slot at 76.5 degrees East Longitude.
Title: The Arecibo Detection of the Coolest Radio-flaring Brown Dwarf Authors: Matthew Route, Alex Wolszczan (Version, v2) Radio detection provides unique means to measure and study magnetic fields of the coolest brown dwarfs. Previous radio surveys have observed quiescent and flaring emiss...
Press Conference 10 Habitable worlds in the Solar System Live webcast Is Earth alone in the Solar System in its ability to harbour life? Recent work has identified Jupiter's system as comprising potentially habitable worlds, including on one of its moons, Europa, which contains 'shallow lakes' a...
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