ESA scientists said last Friday that recent satellite measurements of a significant difference in sea-surface height between the western and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean suggest a La Nina event is beginning. El Nino's chillier sister, La Nina also is linked to wide-ranging shifts in w...
Title: Serendipitous Kepler observations of a background dwarf nova of SU UMa type Authors: Thomas Barclay, Martin Still, Jon M. Jenkins, Steve B. Howell, Rachael M. Roettenbacher We have discovered a dwarf nova (DN) of type SU UMa in Kepler data which is 7.0 arcsec from the G-type exoplanet survey...
Title: IONORT: a Windows software tool to calculate the HF ray tracing in the ionosphere Authors: A. Azzarone, C. Bianchi, M. Pezzopane, M. Pietrella, C. Scotto, A. Settimi This paper describes an applicative software tool, named IONORT (IONOspheric Ray Tracing), for calculating a three-dimen...
The St Scholastica Day riot of February 10, 1355, is one of the most notorious events in the history of Oxford. The seed of the riot was an altercation in the Swindlestock Tavern (now the site of the Santander Bank on Carfax) between two students of the University of Oxford, Walter Spryngeheuse and Rog...
Scientists Discover Land-based Version of Submarine Black Smokers Scientists have discovered a new type of hot spring along the banks of a volcanic lake in the Philippines. These "terrestrial smokers" are cousins to submarine black smokers, hydrothermal vents on the seafloor that s...
Title: First evidence of pep solar neutrinos by direct detection in Borexino Authors: The Borexino Collaboration (Submitted on 14 Oct 2011) We observed, for the first time, solar neutrinos in the 1.0-1.5 MeV energy range. We measured the rate of pep solar neutrino interactions in Borexino to be [3...
Title: The KELT-South Telescope Authors: Joshua Pepper, Rudolf B. Kuhn, Robert Siverd, David James, Keivan Stassun The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a survey for new transiting planets around bright stars. KELT-South is a small-aperture, wide-field automated tele...
A mammoth MIT antenna installed in 1957 as the first radar system to conduct space surveillance (it observed the Sputnik satellite) is poised for many more years of key observations thanks to a recently completed renovation. Lincoln Laboratory's Millstone Hill Radar (MHR) antenna is one of the wo...
A commercial Iridium communications satellite collided with a Russian satellite or satellite fragment, Tuesday, creating a cloud of wreckage in low-Earth orbit, officials said Wednesday. The international space station is not threatened by the debris, they said, but it's not yet clear whethe...
Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 - 20 January 1907) was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London. Read more
Asteroid (96) Aegle is a very large main-belt asteroid. It has a dark-coloured surface and probably a primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by Jérôme Coggia on February 17, 1868, and named after one of the three Aegles in Greek mythology. Aegle has been observed occulting three st...
10:00 am on Thursday 09 February 2012 - 4:00 pm on Friday 30 March 2012 Objects in Space showcases what is believed to be Britain's largest meteorite, never previously seen in public, alongside letters and books charting the history of scientific interest in meteorites. The exhibition also conta...
Philips PCVC675K Vesta web camera Can accept a 'standard' 1.25in webcam adapter. Unfortunately, due to its age, there are no Vesta or Window7 drivers. Technical Specification Optical Sensor 1/4 CCD (Sony ICX098AK) Pixels 640 (H) x 480 (V) Min. Illumination < 1 lux Integrated lens 4.8 mm, F3.0...
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