* Astronomy

Title: Local Tadpole Galaxies Authors: Debra Meloy Elmegreen (1), Bruce G. Elmegreen (2), Jorge Sanchez Almeida (3), Casiana Munoz-Tunon (3), Joseph Putko (1,4), Janosz Dewberry (1) ((1) Vassar College, (2) IBM Research, (3) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (4) Middlebury College) Tadp...

Planet-Sized Tornado Whirls On Sun's Surface, March 11, 2012

Planet-Sized Tornado Whirls On Sun's Surface, March 11, 2012

Title: The araucaria project. An accurate distance to the late-type double-lined eclipsing binary OGLE SMC113.3 4007 in the Small Magellanic Cloud Authors: Dariusz Graczyk, Grzegorz Pietrzynski, Ian B. Thompson, Wolfgang Gieren, Bogumil Pilecki, Andrzej Udalski, Igor Soszynski, Zbigniew...

Title: A photometric and spectroscopic study of WW And - an Algol-type, long period binary system with an accretion disc Authors: Michal Siwak, Stanislaw Zola, Tomasz Szymanski, Maria Kurpinska-Winiarska, Maciej Winiarski, Dorota Koziel-Wierzbowska, Waclaw Waniak, Michal Drahus We have an...

The Battle of Badr, fought Saturday, March 13, 624 AD (17 Ramadan, 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz region of western Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia), was a key battle in the early days of Islam and a turning point in Muhammad's struggle with his opponents among the Quraish in Mecca. Read mo...

Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of P...

Joseph Priestley, FRS (13 March 1733 (O.S.) - 6 February 1804) was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works. He is usually credited with the discovery of oxygen, having isolated it in...

This colour image provides the best look yet at Saturn's moon Calypso, a Trojan (trailing moon) of the larger moon Tethys. Calypso trail...

A magnitude 15.7 type Ic supernova, 2011bm, was discovered by the La Sagra Sky Survey Supernova Search on the 4th April, 2011, in the spiral galaxy IC 3918 (PGC 044205) in the constellation Coma Berenices. The supernova is located 5.85" east and 3.1" north from the center of the galaxy. Po...

Low-flying 'fireball' lights up Melbourne sky[url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/low-flying-fireball-lights-up-mel...

Title: Sunyaev-Zel'dovich observation of the Bullet-like cluster A2146 with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Authors: Carmen Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, Malak Olamaie, Matthew L. Davies, Andy C. Fabian, Farhan Feroz, Thomas M. O. Franzen, Keith J. B. Grainge, Michael P. Hobson, Natasha Hurley-W...

Mapping the Mohorovicic discontinuity with GOCE The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth's crust and mantle - the Mohorovicic discontinuity - has been produced based on data from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Mohorovicic discontinuity will offer n...

Title: Age Determination for 346 Nearby Stars in the Herschel DEBRIS Survey Authors: Laura Vican DEBRIS is a flux-limited survey of nearby stars (spectral types A-M) for evidence of debris disks with the Herschel Space Observatory. One goal of the survey is to determine disk incidence as a functio...

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The Defence Meteorological Satellite, OPS 8386, that was launched on the 20th May, 1965, from the Vandenberg Air Force Western Test Range, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on (or after) the 25th February, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.OPS 8386 1 01377U 65038A 12008.66168557 +.001433...