The 630 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2002 EZ11 will make a close pass (77.5 lunar distances, 0.1992 AU), travelling at 33.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th February, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the di...
Making a real sonic screwdriver Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver has saved him from his alien enemies throughout the universe. A team of physicists at Dundee University have designed and built their own sonic screwdriver. Read more
Asia's largest solar park functional in Gujarat A 600 MW solar power park, touted as Asia's first and largest, was dedicated to the nation by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the State's Patan district, in a boost to India's efforts towards low carbon growth. The solar power park with a power...
Galileo payload milestone reached Another important milestone has been reached in the development of Europe's Galileo satellite-navigation system. The British manufacturer SSTL has completed the first of 22 spacecraft payloads for the orbiting network. Read more
"The Sea of Time and Space" 'The Sea of Time and Space' (P1. 2 I1 a), is clearly dated, under Blake's signature, 1821. It is in fact a fine example of Blake's late and mature style, the style of the Dante illustrations and the Job engravings. [url=http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/...
Science news podcasts from the American Chemical SocietyEpisode 244 - April 16 2012 Mon, 16 April 2012 Why the "fearful lizards" of yore could be the smartest kids in the class on some distant planet. How living at a snail's pace just got a lot more energetic. A new finding about oil and wate...
A star diagonal is designed to place the eyepiece at comfortable viewing position on an astronomical telescope. A star diagonal is either constructed from a prism or mirror, and reflects the path of the light at, usually, a 90-degree angle to the telescope's optical axis. Newtonian-type reflecti...
Why did the chicken cross the ocean? To get to America before Columbus - and from the other direction - according to a new report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Many scholars had thought chickens arrived in the New World with the early Spanish or Portuguese explorers around the ye...
The first colour images taken by the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere - some of constellations as distant as 10 000 million light years - were revealed on Thursday by the astronomy team responsible for the Southern African Large Telescope (Salt) located near the chilly...
Emergency action gives Pygmy-possums a future A team from the University of Melbourne, Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and an independent expert (Dean Heinze) took the action to genetically rescue a population of one of Australias rarest marsupials, the threatened Mounta...
The Deep Sky Divas return to Astronomy.FM Radio on Tuesday, August 25th to chat about all things astronomy, including NASA's next shuttle mission, STS-128; recent and upcoming sky events for backyard observing; the AAVSO's Citizen Sky project; LCROSS' lunar impact on October 9; and Marleen's la...
Podcast: Exoplanets Revealed with Emily Rice Planets orbiting stars other than the Sun - called exoplanets - were first discovered in 1995. Since then, astronomers have pushed the limits of technology to produce images of exoplanets. In this podcast, Emily Rice, a research scientist in the Museu...
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