Stars Ancient and Modern? This colourful view of the globular star cluster NGC 6362 was captured by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. This new picture, along with a new image of the central region from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space T...
Chinese scientists join IODP expedition to South China Sea Dozens of scientists from different countries are set to start an expedition to the South China Sea, to explore the formation of the sea as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP). In the first of two expeditions, 33 scient...
Exoplanets near red dwarfs suggest another Earth nearer The nearest habitable, Earth-sized planet could be just 13 light-years away, research suggests. An analysis of small, dim "red dwarf" stars - which make up a majority of stars in our galaxy - shows that 6% of them host such a planet....
CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice A novel way of using ESA's CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea - potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West Antarctica. This new information is helping sc...
Asteroid (82) Alkmene is a main-belt asteroid. Alkmene was discovered by R. Luther on November 27, 1864, and named after Alcmene, the mother of Herakles in Greek mythology. A satellite has been suggested based on the lightcurve data. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82_Alkmene]Read more[...
Title: JPEG2000 Image Compression on Solar EUV Images Author: C. E. Fischer, D. Müller, I. De Moortel For future solar missions as well as ground-based telescopes, efficient ways to return and process data have become increasingly important. Solar Orbiter, e.g., which is the next ESA/NASA missi...
Expand (205kb, 900 x 600) Credit: SonotaCo Network, Japan A group of meteor enthusiasts created a network of over 100 video cameras placed at 25 well-separated locations across Japan. This unprecedented network...
This false-colour Chandra Xray telescope image of a supernova remnant shows X-rays produced by high-energy particles (blue) and multimillion-degree gas (red/green).
In spring 1006 AD, what was thought to be a "new star" suddenly appeared in the constellation Lupus,...
Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 - February 7, 2017) was an American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch begun his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. R...
Ancient undersea landslide discovered in Australia Scientists have discovered evidence of a massive ancient undersea landslide next to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, or 30 times the size of Uluru. The landslide coul...
Tornado Recovery Underway at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility Recovery efforts are underway at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, which was impacted by a tornado at 11:25 a.m. CST Tuesday. All 3,500 employees at the facility have been accounted for, with five sustaining minor inju...
China to invest 1 bln yuan in national park Construction of the Sanjiangyuan National Park to protect the headwaters of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang (Mekong) rivers will start this year with the building of roads and installing of surveillance cameras to assist protection work. Read more
At a bilateral ESA-NASA meeting held on 15-16 July, 2008, David Southwood, the ESA Director for the Science and Robotic Exploration Program, and Ed Weiler, the NASA Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, endorsed a plan to establish an International X-ray Observatory (IXO...
Credit royhahmann Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde is a retired turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST). Concorde 001 made its first test flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969, piloted by André Turcat, a...
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