Musket Ball Cluster When two clusters collide their galaxies rarely collide with one another, due to there being so much space between the galaxies. Thus galaxies can be considered collisonless particles. The cluster gas on the other hand is dispersed somewhat evenly throughout each subclus...
Sunspots 11455 (center right), 11454 (left) and a new group (bottom edge) captured with a 90mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Solar filter + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. (through scattered clouds) Expand (145kb, 640 x 480)Exp...
Prehistoric stringed instrument found in Skye Experts believe they have found the remains of the earliest stringed instrument ever found in Western Europe - dating to more than 2,300 years ago - at an excavation on the Island of Skye. Cabinet Secretary for Culture Fiona Hyslop today revealed the sm...
1990 AsiaSat 1 Relaunch after Space Shuttle retrieval AsiaSat 1 was originally launched in 1984 on Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41B as Westar 6. It was stranded in orbit, was retrieved by Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-51...
Cisco College student may have discovered asteroid; might name it 'Black Pearl' If Jessica Williams' asteroid discovery is confirmed, the Black Pearl, sans Capt. Jack Sparrow, will eternally sail the skies. That's because - at least for now - Williams is leaning toward naming the asteroid that sh...
Edward Walter Maunder (12 April 1851 - 21 March 1928) was an English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. Read more
Historian Bettany Hughes's latest series will be broadcast on April 11, 18 and 25 on BBC 2 at 9pm. Historian Bettany Hughes reveals the hidden history of women in religion, from dominatrix goddesses to feisty political operators and warrior empresses. In this provocative upcoming series, Bettan...
Space Access '12 Conference - April 12-14 - Phoenix Arizona SA '12 will be the next round of Space Access Society's long-running annual get-together for people seriously interested in the technology, business, and politics of radically cheaper space transportation. This year's conference se...
International Space Station and Mars Conference - Europe Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 9:00 AM - Friday, April 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM (GMT+0100) 67400 Illkirch Graffenstaden, Read more
GLOBE at Night 2010 3 - 16 March GLOBE at Night is an annual 2-week campaign in March. People all over the world record the brightness of their night sky by matching its appearance toward the constellation Orion with star maps of progressively fainter stars. They submit their measurements on-line an...
During a wild April storm in 1934, a wind gust of 231 miles per hour (372 kilometres per hour) pushed across the summit of Mount Washington. This wind speed still stands as the all-time surface wind speed observed by man record. Read more
University of Oklahoma Astronomer and Colleagues Identify 12 Billion-Year-Old White Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light Years Away A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known to man. Astronomers identifie...
