Title: Chandra observations of NGC4342, an optically faint, X-ray gas-rich early-type galaxy Authors: Akos Bogdan (1), William R. Forman (1), Ralph P. Kraft (1), Christine Jones (1), Scott W. Randall (1), Zhongli Zhang (2), Irina Zhuravleva (2), Eugene Churazov (2), Zhiyuan Li (1), Paul E. J. Nu...
Title: Looking for black-holes in X-ray binaries with XMM-Newton: XTE J1817-330 and XTE J1856+053 Authors: Gloria Sala, Jochen Greiner, Natalia Primak The X-ray binary XTE J1817-330 was discovered in outburst on 26 January 2006 with RXTE/ASM. One year later, another X-ray transient discovere...
Brown and almost barren, Anak Krakatau rises out of the Sunda Strait, the narrow band of the Indian Ocean that separates the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java.
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Earth from Space: Algerian sandsCredit ESA Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the fourteenth edition we look at the sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in western Alger...
Debris from a SL-4 rocket body that was launched on the 15th June, 2007, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, for the TerraSAR-X satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th March, 2012 @ 09:26 GMT ± 48 hours.SL-24 RB
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The Bezymianny volcano has erupted on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East.
The eruption started at 08.25 a.m. GMT on Tuesday.
"A column of gases and ashes over the crater have reached the altitude of several kilometres...and avalanches of melted debris have been moving down t...
Title: The extra red plutino (55638) 2002 VE95 Author(s): M.A. Barucci, F. Merlin, D. Perna, A. Alvarez-Candal, T. Muller, M. Mommert, C. Kiss, S. Fornasier, P. Santos-Sanz, E. Dotto ~ Read more (333.8kb, PDF) (55638) 2002 VE95, also written as 2002 VE95, is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with...
Title: High-J CO emission in the Cepheus E protostellar outflow observed with SOFIA/GREAT Authors: A. I. Gómez-Ruiz, A. Gusdorf, S. Leurini, C. Codella, R. Güsten, F. Wyrowski, M. A. Requena-Torres, C. Risacher, S. F. Wampfler We present and analyse two spectrally resolved high-J CO lines towar...
Title: Abell 1758N from an optical point of view: new insights on a merging cluster with diffuse radio emission Authors: W. Boschin, M. Girardi, R. Barrena, M. Nonino We seek to explore the internal dynamics of the cluster Abell 1758N, which has been shown to host a radio halo and two relics, and is kno...
Title: Accreting magnetars: a new type of high-mass X-ray binaries? Authors: P. Reig (FORTH), J. M. Torrejón (U. Alicante), P. Blay (U. Valencia) The discovery of very slow pulsations (Pspin=5560s) has solved the long-standing question of the nature of the compact object in the high-mass X-ray b...
Title: The sizes of galaxy halos in galaxy cluster Abell 1689
Authors: A. Halkola, S. Seitz, M. Pannella
The multiple images observed in galaxy cluster Abell 1689 provide strong constraints not only on the mass distribution of the cluster but also on the ensemble properties...
20.0 Mega metal USB Webcam Web Cam Camera PC Laptop+Mic Video mode: 24 bit true colour Lens focus: 8 cm to infinity Frame rate: 30F/s Interface: USB 2.0 Automatic white balance Automatic colour compensated Manual Focus Support OS: Windows 98 / Me / 2000 / NT / XP / Vista 32bit £0.99 See more (dead link...
Title: NGC 4656UV: A UV-selected Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Candidate Authors: Andrew Schechtman-Rook (1), Kelley M. Hess (2,1) ((1) University of Wisconsin-Madison, (2) University of Cape Town) We report the discovery of a UV-bright tidal dwarf galaxy candidate in the NGC 4631/4656 galaxy group, whi...
Title: The long and the short of the high energy emission in GRB090926A: an external shock Authors: J. R. Sacahui, N. Fraija, M. M. González, W. H. Lee SSC emission from a reverse shock has been suggested as the origin for the high energy component lasting 2 s in the prompt phase of GRB98080923 (Fraija e...
The Vega 2 lander touched down at 03:00:50 UT on 15 June 1985 at around 7°08S 177°40E / 7.14°S 177.67°E / -7.14; 177.67, in the northern region of Aphrodite Terra, Venus. Read more
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