* Astronomy

Sunspot 11455 captured with a 90mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Solar filter + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. (through scattered clouds)

Google earth file: Cancer.kmz (5kb, kmz) Cancer is one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for crab and it is commonly represented as such. Cancer is small and its stars are faint. It lies between Gemini to the west and Leo to the east, Lynx to the north and Canis Minor and Hydra...

Terra or Tellus was a goddess personifying the Earth in Roman mythology. A festival for Tellus called the Fordicidia or Hordicidia was held every year on April 15; it involved the sacrifice of pregnant cows and was managed by the pontifex maximus and the Vestal Virgins. The Virgins kept the ashes o...

Title: Small Rimmed Depression in Lake Ontario: An Impact Crater? Authors: Troy L. Holcombe, John S. Warren, David F. Reid, William T. Virden, David L. Divins Detailed bathymetry of Lake Ontario reveals a small circular feature and adjoining SWtrending ridge associated with a small topographic...

NASA's 19th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race at Huntsville, Alabama. See more

Euler, Dollond, and the Achromatic Telescope Controversy Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 am by max Erik Tou, Carthage College (and Gustavus alumnus) 11:30-12:20 on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Olin Hall, Room 320 Leonhard Euler was the most prolific mathematician of the 18th century. He wro...

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (also commonly known as "Daffodils" or "The Daffodils") is a poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an April 15, 1802 event in which Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Read...

The 1979 Montenegro earthquake was the most devastating earthquake on the territory of present-day Montenegro, then part of SFR Yugoslavia. Read more

Sir Robert Sibbald (15 April 1641 - August 1722) was a Scottish physician and antiquary. In 1667 with Sir Andrew Balfour he started the botanical garden in Edinburgh, and he took a leading part in establishing the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, of which he was elected president in 1684. Th...

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (April 15, 1793 - November 23, 1864 (Julian calendar: November 11)) was a Baltic German astronomer from a famous dynasty. Read more

Georgy Timofeyevich Beregovoy (April 15, 1921 - June 30, 1995) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the space mission Soyuz 3 in 1968. Read more

Orbital elements: 2012 GA5 Earth MOID = 0.0984 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 243.43045 (2000.0) P Q n 0.80724543 Peri. 108.46853 +0.51355488 +0.85760825 a 1.1423495 Node 192.54509 -0.82755117 +0.48649466 e 0.0662941 Incl. 7.33724 -0.22676078 +0.16682639 P 1.22 H 24.4 G...

A massive crater in Northern Quebec has been luring the curious for over 50 years. Diamond prospectors, Second World War pilots and National Geographic all made pilgrimages to the distant natural wonder. Now, an international team led by Laval University in Quebec City has journeyed to the Pingua...

A possible magnitude 9.7 nova was discovered in the constellation Scutum on the 12th April, 2012, by Y. Sakurai (Japan). Position (J2000): R.A. 18 56 21.70 | Dec. -08° 52' 30.0''

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