* Astronomy

How the telescope got its name On 14th April, 1611, Galileo Galilei was guest of honour at a prodigious banquette thrown by Prince Frederico Cesi founder and president of the Academy of the Lynxes an exclusive society dedicated to scholarly pursuits to which Galileo would be appointed to, as a memb...

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A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 12:00:02 (UTC) on Sunday, January 17, 2010, in the Drake Passage region, 355 km SSE of Ushuaia, Argentina, at a depth of 10 km. Location 57.671°S, 65.910°W

Orbital elements: C/2009 P1 (Garradd) T 2011 Aug. 10.229 TT MPC q 1.25329 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 95.562 -0.058281 -0.960554 Node 344.087 -0.255862 +0.277655 e 1.0 Incl. 82.646 +0.964955 +0.015606 From 10 observations 2009 Aug. 13-15. [url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09P54.html]MPE...

'Intense' meteor dazzles stargazers across Midwest[url=http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/2012/04/12/in...

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NASA TV Migrating To Digital Format: Additional Receiver Required NASA TV is moving forward with its July 1 plans to convert from a single analogue NTSC channel to four channels of Standard Definition MPEG-2 digital video, including a dedicated Media Services channel. The con...

Adam Tanner (in Latin, Tannerus) (April 14, 1572 - May 25, 1632) was an Austrian Jesuit professor of mathematics and philosophy. Read more

The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 re-entered the Earths atmosphere in 1958, after a 162 day mission.

Rongali Bihu (mid-April, also called Bohag Bihu), the most popular Bihu celebrates the onset of the Assamese New Year (around April 15) and the coming of Spring. This marks the first day of the Hindu solar calendar and is also observed in Bengal, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Punjab, Kerala and Tamil Nadu...

The 170 - 380 metre wide asteroid 2003 GQ22 will make a close pass (45.9 lunar distances, 0.1179 AU), travelling at 10.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th April, 2012 @ 17:06 UT ±00:51. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

Aiming for dark skies over Sark In March 2010 Sark announced that it was hoping to be named the world's first Dark-Sky Island. In April 2010 the island will undergo an audit of its light by an astronomer. The classification is given by the International Dark-Sky Association to help promote both astro...

The rise and fall of the Soviet Union Space Part 1 Click to Play | View Details The rise and fall of the Soviet Union Space Part 2 Click to Play | View Details The rise and fall of the Soviet Union Space Part 3 Click to Play | View Details

Many reports of meteor shower over Milwaukee area There are multiple reports Thursday of a meteor in the sky over southeast Wisconsin. The National Weather Service in Milwaukee says they've gotten phone calls and Facebook posts about a bright meteor that streaked across the sky last night. [url=...

The world's most isolated cave is home to 4 million year old "superbugs" Lechuguilla Cave has been completely isolated from the outside world for over four million years, making it one of the world's most pristine ecosystems. And yet it's full of bacteria that are resistant to modern an...