NASA Mission Finds Link Between Big and Small Stellar Blasts Proof that certain double star systems can erupt in full-blown explosions and then continue to flare up with smaller bursts has been spotted by the ultraviolet eyes of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. The finding bolsters a 20-yea...
125 meteorites have been discovered in Russia over the past 250 years. Visitors can see the most interesting of them at the "Meteoric Rain" exhibition that is currently underway at the Ural Geology Museum in Yekaterinburg. There is a large variety of meteorites there, including stone,...
Aviation reports - 2011 - A11F0012 The Air Canada Boeing 767-333 (registration C-GHLQ, serial number 30846) was operating as flight ACA878 from Toronto, Ontario, to Zurich, Switzerland. Approximately halfway across the Atlantic, during the hours of darkness, the aircraft experienced a 46-se...
Transit 5BN-3 was a US military satellite, which was to be used to test a new submarine navigation system. Launch of the Thor Able Star rocket, with the Transit 5BN-3 and Transit 5E-4 satellites, was from the Vandenberg Air Force base on the 21st April, 1964 at 18:50 GMT, but the rocket failed to achie...
Grounation Day (April 21) is an important Rastafarian holy day, and second after Coronation Day (November 2). It is celebrated in honour of Haile Selassie's 1966 visit to Jamaica Read more HIM Haile Selassie I Visit To Jamaica April 21 1966 His Imperial Majesty, Emperor haile Selassie of Ethiopia...
Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 - 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarisation of light. Read more
Percy Williams Bridgman (21 April 1882 - 20 August 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. Read more
In ancient Roman religion, the Parilia is an agricultural festival performed annually on April 21, aimed at cleansing both sheep and shepherd. It is carried out in acknowledgment to the Roman deity Pales, a deity of uncertain gender who was a patron of shepherds and sheep. Read more
John Muir (21 April 1838 - 24 December 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have b...
George A. Cowan (Worcester, February 15, 1920 - April 20, 2012) was an American physical chemist, a businessman and philanthropist. He conducted early research in the Manhattan Project. George served 39 years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as director of chemistry, associate director of res...
Hubble Peeks inside a Stellar Cloud IMAGE (699kb, 670 x 686) These bright stars shining through what looks like a haze in the night sky are part of a young stellar grouping in one of the largest known star formation regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. T...
An ATLAS CENTAUR rocket body that was launched on the 28th September, 1985, from Cape Canaveral for the INTELSAT 512 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th April, 2012 @ 20:41 GMT ± 48 hours.ATLAS CENTAUR RB
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"Discovering the Universe" Two public lectures are provided, one on the risk to Earth posed by comet and asteroid impacts with our planet, the other a review of efforts during the eighteenth century to measure the size of our solar system and the role played by very rare planetary transit...
Online-only news outlets 'struggle to find funding' The first report to systematically assess how online-only news websites across Western Europe are faring has found that new start-ups are struggling to find business models that can cover their operating costs. It suggests that the funding e...
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