Title: Elemental abundances of intermediate age open cluster NGC 3680 Authors: A. W. Mitschang (1), G. M. De Silva (2), D. B. Zucker (1,2) ((1) Macquarie University Research Centre in Astronomy, Astrophysics & Astrophotonics, (2) Australian Astronomical Observatory) We present a new abun...
Title: Effect of the Lee-Wick partners in the evolution of the early universe Authors: Kaushik Bhattacharya, Suratna Das Recently some work has been done on Lee-Wick standard model where the authors tried to tackle the hierarchy problem by using higher derivative field theory. All those theorie...
Title: Amplitude variation and multiplet structures: Is PG1605+072 a slow rotator? Authors: Jan Langfellner, Sonja Schuh, the MSST, WET teams The subdwarf B star PG1605+072, with an unusually low log g ~ 5.3, shows a high number of non-radial pulsation modes, making it a promising candidate for a...
Suisei (Japanese for Comet), originally known as Planet-A, was an unmanned space probe developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA). It constituted a part of the Halley Armada together with Sakigake, the Soviet/F...
Decision delayed on Meteosat team The choice of an industrial team to build the next generation of weather satellites - or Meteosats - for Europe has been delayed by three months. Read more
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH, FRS (7 March 1792 - 11 May 1871), was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor, who in some years also did valuable botanical work. He was the son of Mary Baldwin and astronomer Sir William Hersche...
Title: Trumpler 20 - an old and rich open cluster Authors: I. Platais (1), C. Melo (2), J.P. Fulbright (1), V. Kozhurina-Platais (3), P. Figueira (4), S.A. Barnes (5), R.A. Mendez (6) ((1) JHU, (2) ESO, Garching, (3) STScI, (4) Observatoire de Geneve, (5) Lowell Obs, (6) Universidad de Chile) We show...
Title: Cheers results on Mrk 573: Study of deep Chandra observations Authors: Alessandro Paggi, Junfeng Wang, Giuseppina Fabbiano, Martin Elvis, Margarita Karovska We present results on Mrk 573 obtained as part of the CHandra survey of Extended Emission-line Regions in nearby Seyfert galaxie...
VST captures collisions in young galaxy cluster The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has imaged a fascinating collection of interacting galaxies in the Hercules galaxy cluster. The sharpness of the new picture, and the hundreds of galaxies captured in great detai...
The Diros Project is an international, multi-disciplinary, Greek-American research project that explores human social dynamics on the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. The project is co-directed by Drs. Giorgos Papathanassopoulos and Anastasia Papathanasiou of the Greek Ministry of Cult...
Two asteroids named after Unix co-creators Two small asteroids now bear the names of two towering figures in computing history, Unix inventors Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Asteroid (300909) Kenthompson and (294727) Dennisritchie both were discovered in 2008 by Tom Glinos and D. H. Levy (the...
Title: OGLE-2008-BLG-510: first automated real-time detection of a weak microlensing anomaly - brown dwarf or stellar binary? Authors: V. Bozza, M. Dominik, N. J. Rattenbury, U. G. Joergensen, Y. Tsapras, D. M. Bramich, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond, C. Liebig, A. Cassan, P. Fouque, A. Fukui, M. Hundert...
Loud boom heard in multiple Ala. counties Hundreds of people across the state are saying they heard a loud boom this afternoon, one reportedly powerful enough to shake walls, windows and entire homes. The reports are coming in from multiple counties, including Bibb, Coosa, Chilton, Limestone, Je...
Vejovis or Vejove (Latin: Viovis or Vdiovis; rare Vive or Vdius) is a Roman god. In spring, goats were sacrificed to him to avert plagues. Aulus Gellius informs us that Vejovis received the sacrifice of a female goat, sacrificed ritu humano; this obscure phrase could either mean "after the man...
