NASA Sounding Rocket Successfully Launches into Alaskan Night An experiment to measure nitric oxide in the polar sky was successfully launched on a NASA sounding rocket at 8:45 a.m. EST, Jan. 27, 2017, from the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska. The Polar Night Nitric Oxide experiment or PolarNO...
Giovanni Celoria (29 January 1842, Casale Monferrato - 17 August 1920, Milan) was an Italian astronomer and politician. After graduating from the University of Turin in September 1863 he began working at the Brera astronomical observatory in Milan, which was directed at the time by Giovanni Virg...
Uncovering the secrets of North America's largest diamond Canada unearthed the biggest diamond ever found in North America - the Foxfire. It has spent the last couple of months on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Read more The 187.63 carat Foxfire dia...
NASA has moved the Apollo 1 capsule and related materials approximately 90 feet to a newer, environmentally-controlled warehouse at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton, Va., on Saturday, Feb. 17.
An asteroid collision showered the earth with meteorites for millions of years. An enormous collision between two asteroids created a meteorite shower that rained down on earth for millions of years. Meteorites of up to 1.5 kilometres in size impacted with the earth. German researchers have no...
Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material' Scientists in the US say they have at last managed to turn hydrogen into a state where it behaves like a metal. If that is true - and it is a controversial claim - it fulfils a more than 80-year quest to produce what many have said would be a wonder material. Theory...
Mysterious 'Loud Boom' Reportedly Rattles Homes in North Carolina Town The residents of Mount Holly, a town in North Carolina, have been puzzled by a mysterious "loud boom" that reportedly shook several homes earlier this week. The Mount Holly Police Department "received more than 30 calls from v...
Title: e-MERLIN and VLBI observations of the luminous infrared galaxy IC883: a nuclear starburst and an AGN candidate revealed Authors: C. Romero-Canizales, M. A. Perez-Torres, A. Alberdi, M. K. Argo, R. J. Beswick, E. Kankare, F. Batejat, A. Efstathiou, S. Mattila, J. E. Conway, S. T. Garringto...
Title: Imaging Spectropolarimeter for Multi-application Solar Telescope at Udaipur Solar Observatory: Characterization of polarimeter and preliminary observations Author: Alok Ranjan Tiwary, Shibu K. Mathew, A. Raja Bayanna, P. Venkatakrishnan, Rahul Yadav Multi-Application Solar Te...
Title: 51 Pegasi - a planet-bearing Maunder minimum candidate Authors: K. Poppenhaeger, J. Robrade, J.H.M.M. Schmitt, J.C. Hall We observed 51 Peg, the first detected planet-bearing star, in a 55 ks XMM-Newton pointing and in 5 ks pointings each with Chandra HRC-I and ACIS-S. The star has a very lo...
NGC 4302 (also UGC 7418, MCG 3-32-9, and PGC 39974) is a magnitude +11.6 edge-on spiral galaxy located 54 million lights-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. NGC 4302 is close to the magnitude +11.3 face-on spiral galaxy NGC 4298 (PGC 39950) located at a distance of 52 million lights-ye...
Title: A monopole near a black hole Authors: Claudio Bunster and Marc Henneaux A striking property of an electric charge near a magnetic pole is that the system possesses angular momentum even when both the electric and the magnetic charges are at rest. The angular momentum is proportional to the pr...
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