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Surrey Satellite Technology US solicits extra payloads for its 2015 OTB ride-share mission Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) is soliciting ancillary payloads for its upcoming OTB mission that will be launched in Q1 2015, offering both government and commercial organisations a low ri...

Jupiter's New NEB outbreak A striking new outbreak of bright and dark spots has occurred in Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt (NEB) over March 2012 and early April. Source

A ULA Delta IV rocket is scheduled to launch the classified NROL-25 satellite from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, at 2230 GMT, 29th March, 2012. See more

Two new sunspot groups (center and right) captured with a 90mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter.

Dead Sea drilling to unearth scientific treasures Scientists in Israel are about to realise a long held ambition to drill a core from the bed of the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth. Zvi Ben-Avraham and Mordechai Stein devised their plan around a decade ago, and applied to the German-based Interna...

The W.J. McDonald Observatory of The University of Texas at Austin has received a pledge of a $750,000 joint donation from George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell, The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, and the George and Cynthia Mitchell Charitable Remainder Unitrust. The gift will fund cosm...

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Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. Read more

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NASA has issued a Request for Information, or RFI, seeking ideas from educational institutions, science museums and other appropriate organisations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display the space shuttle orbiters and space shuttle main engines after the conclusion of...

The dwarf nova RU Pegasi is in outburst. Date: 16th November 2008 Magnitude: 9 - 13.2 V Period: 74.3 days Satellite orbital period: 0.3746 days Type: UGSS Position(2000): RA=22h14m02.56s, Dec=+12°42'11.5"

Title: X-ray Spectral Variations of U Gem from Quiescence to Outburst Authors: T. Guver, C. Uluyazi, M.T. Ozkan, E. Gogus In this paper researchers report the discovery of a high energy component of the X-ray spectra of U Geminorum, which can be observed while the source is in...

Podcast: Kepler Slackerchat This podcast is a chit-chat show with yours truly (Michael Koppelman), Doug Welch, Mike Simonsen with a short cameo by Chris Watson, who is an amateur astronomer, friend and AAVSO activist who helps us with the editing from time to time. Download [url=http://www.slac...

Orbital elements: 2012 GG1 Earth MOID = 0.0863 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 202.38636 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49570829 Peri. 37.40086 +0.99425830 +0.00515406 a 1.5811944 Node 321.87945 -0.05997673 +0.85403815 e 0.3283606 Incl. 9.97044 +0.08861840 +0.52018485 P 1.99 H 18.8 G 0...

Title: Discovery of VHE -ray emission and multi-wavelength observations of the BL Lac object 1RXS J101015.9-311909 Authors: HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero, F. Aharonian, A. G. Akhperjanian, G. Anton, A. Balzer, A. Barnacka, Y. Becherini, J. Becker, K. Bernlöhr, E. Birsin, J. Bite...