* Astronomy

Grandma March Day (Bulgarian: Baba Marta) is a holiday celebrated in Bulgaria, on the first of March. Read more

Castle Bravo was the code name given to the first U.S. test of a dry fuel thermonuclear hydrogen bomb device, detonated on March 1, 1954 at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as the first test of Operation Castle. Read more

Saint David's Day is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year Credit TaffTVcouk St Davids Day Parade through Cardiff city centre - March 2010

A 4.6 billion year old meteorite that travelled millions of miles through space before blowing through an attic in Northwest Georgia was unveiled by staff at the Tellus Science Museum this morning. Experts estimate the the half-pound, peach sized space rock was traveling between 50,000 and 70,00...

Title: Mbosi: an anomalous iron with unique silicate inclusions Authors: Olsen, Edward J.; Clayton, Robert N.; Mayeda, Toshiko K.; Davis, Andrew M.; Clarke, Roy S., Jr.; Wasson, John T. The Mbosi iron meteorite contains millimetre size silicate inclusions. Mbosi is an ungrouped iron with a Ge/G...

July 4-8, 2005 o THEMIS Images As Art #51 (Released 4 July 2005) o THEMIS Images As Art #52 (Released 5 July 2005) o [url=http://themis.la.a...

Orbital elements: 2012 DH54 Earth MOID = 0.0084 AU Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC M 255.44464 (2000.0) P Q n 1.08748877 Peri. 130.77564 +0.39681639 +0.91772950 a 0.9365253 Node 162.57923 -0.85886107 +0.37798676 e 0.1471734 Incl. 3.36783 -0.32387407 +0.12205976 P 0.91 H 27.6...

Oldbury nuclear power station near Bristol has stopped generating electricity after 45 years. Both of the station's reactors were scheduled to be turned off in 2008, but had their operational life extended. Reactor two was turned off in 2011 and reactor one was finally shut down at 11:00 GMT on Wedn...

Geologists in Gujarat are thrilled after a massive fossilised tree of Jurassic age was recently discovered at Dholavira -- an ancient metropolitan city of the Harrapan civilisation which is now an archaeological site in the Rann of Kutch. "It is an amazing find. The fossil-tree is at least...

Sunspots 11423 and 11426 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. Solar filter + Baader contrast filter + IR-cut filter. lens. Sunspot 11423 captured with a 100mm ref...

A Chang Zheng-4B rocket body that was launched on the 9th January, 2012, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, for the Ziyuan III satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 29th February, 2012 @ -- GMT ± -- hours.CZ-4B RB 1 38048U 12001C 12052.96078835 +.00620650...

Officials believe rock blasting caused loud 'boom' that shook windows[url=http://newstimes.augusta.com/latest-news/201...

Just a thread to highlight ebay etc, astronomy bargains. (For example, today i noticed this...) Phenix telescope D127F1200 Winning bid:£117.00 127mm (5-inch) achromatic telescope Aperture :127mm (5-inch) Focal length (f) :1200mm (47.24"), f/9.4 Equatorial Mount : EQ-4 German Equator...

Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is a former NASA astronaut and politician. He was a member of the second manned crew on the Skylab space station and also commanded the third space shuttle mission. Read more

Exotic New Matter Expected in Ultracold Atoms Just as NASA engineers test new rocket designs in computer studies before committing themselves to full prototypes, so physicists will often model matter under various circumstances to see whether something new appears. This is especially true of a...