Iran to unveil 'great nuclear achievements' Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says "great" nuclear achievements will be announced in the next few days. He did not give any details, but insisted that Iran would never halt its programme to enrich uranium, which can be used to make a...
Orbital elements: 2010 DO PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0163 AU Epoch 2010 Feb. 13.0 TT = JDT 2455240.5 MPC M 333.39089 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47467997 Peri. 117.13602 +0.04256191 +0.99511814 a 1.6275542 Node 154.82253 -0.97467083 +0.06094140 e 0.7530094 Incl. 12.08138 -0.21955696 -0.07762757 P 2.08 H 21.5 G 0.1...
Title: A study of the kinematics and binary-induced shaping of the planetary nebula HaTr 4 Authors: A.A. Tyndall, D. Jones, M. Lloyd, T.J. O'Brien, D. Pollacco We present the first detailed spatio-kinematical analysis and modelling of the planetary nebula HaTr 4, one of few known to contain a post...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 03:31:20 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, near the coast of Oregon, 256 km west from Coos Bay, at a depth of 10 km. Location 43.536°N, 127.381°W
Title: The Gemini NICI Planet-Finding Campaign: Discovery of a Multiple System Orbiting the Young A Star HD 1160 Authors: Eric L. Nielsen, Michael C. Liu, Zahed Wahhaj, Beth A. Biller, Thomas L. Hayward, Alan Boss, Brendan Bowler, Adam Kraus, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Matthias Tecza, Mark Chun, Frase...
XMM-Newton has surveyed nearly two hundred stars under formation to reveal, contrary to expectations, how streams of matter fall onto the young stars magnetic atmospheres and radiate X-rays. The results defy astronomers expectations, as the streams of falling matter interact with the hot cor...
Seventy-four million years ago, near the end of the Cretaceous Period, central Iowa lay near the shoreline of an inland seaway that separated eastern North America from rapidly rising mountains to the west. The low-lying Iowa landscape was home to a rich and varied population of plants and animal...
William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858, Boston - January 17, 1938, Mandeville, Jamaica) was an American astronomer, brother of Edward Charles Pickering. He discovered Saturn's ninth moon Phoebe in 1899 from plates taken in 1898. He also believed he had discovered a tenth moon in 1905 from pla...
Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 - July 7, 1983) was one of the preeminent futurists of the latter third of the twentieth century. He was known for analysing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability. Read more
A fender-bender between two celestial bodies that left a 200 mile-wide metallic chunk to cool in space was the likely source of a group of meteorites known as the IVA iron meteorites, suggests new research by University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists. Their findings, published in the April 1...
Student CubeSats start talking to Earth Shortly after the seven ESA student CubeSats started their adventure in space on board the Vega launcher yesterday, the university teams and radio amateurs all around the world pointed their 'ears' towards space and started to receive the first signs of li...
StenniSphere, the museum and visitor centre at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Centre, will close its doors to the public, beginning Wednesday. Closure of the museum and visitor centre comes as the INFINITY at NASA Stennis Space Centre science and education project moves forward. [url=http://www....
