Title: Rotten Egg Nebula: The magnetic field of a binary evolved star Authors: M. L. Leal-Ferreira, W. H. T. Vlemmings, P. J. Diamond, A. Kemball, N. Amiri, J.-F. Desmurs Most of PNe are not spherical. The loss of spherical symmetry occurs somewhere between the AGB and PN phase. The cause of this chan...
Title: Discovery of an unidentified Fermi object as a black widow-like millisecond pulsar Authors: A. K. H. Kong, R. H. H. Huang, K. S. Cheng, J. Takata, Y. Yatsu, C. C. Cheung, D. Donato, L. C. C. Lin, J. Kataoka, Y. Takahashi, K. Maeda, C. Y. Hui, P. H. T. Tam The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revo...
Gaseous ring around young star raises questions Astronomers have detected a mysterious ring of carbon monoxide gas around the young star V1052 Centauri, which is about 700 light years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. The ring is part of the stars planet-forming disk, and its as far fr...
Most Distant Dwarf Galaxy Detected Scientists have long struggled to detect the dim dwarf galaxies that orbit our own galaxy. So it came as a surprise on Jan. 18 when a team of astronomers using Keck II telescopes adaptive optics has announced the discovery of a dwarf galaxy halfway across the univer...
About 290 million years ago, lizard like creatures about the size of a pig roamed the landscape that would become the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, US.
A hiker discovered their tracks in 2001 in the Gunnison and White River National Forests and told officials at the Denver Museum of Nature...
Maxima of long period variable RS Lyrae on the 19th January, 2012. Magnitude: 10.2-15.0 Period: 301.41 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 19 13 01.31 | Dec. +33° 24' 48.6''
Telescope moves to observatory A fully computerized 12.5-inch Newtonian reflector telescope built by Dr. William Hrudey now resides at the newly constructed observatory building on the University College of the Cayman Islands campus in George Town. On Monday, Dr. Hrudey and UCCI President Roy...
Stargazers rejoice - a little-known York observatory could open to the public seven days a week for the first time in its history. The historic Museum Gardens facility is in full working order, but only usually open its doors for a couple of weeks a year. But now the York Museums Trust, which looks aft...
German TanDEM-X radar satellite now complete In early 2009, Friedrichshafen-based aerospace company Astrium completed construction of the German radar satellite TanDEM-X. This satellite was created in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfa...
The SU Ursae Majoris type dwarf nova AK Cancri is in outburst. Date: 17th January, 2012 Magnitude range: 13.0 - <17.0. Period: - Satellite period: 0.0651 days ype: UGSU Position (J2000): R.A. 08 55 21.23 | Dec. +11° 18' 15.2''
A new form of ice may exist at high pressures and when temperatures are near absolute zero, between minus 4 to 50 Kelvin, according to researchers at the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Centre.
Density functional theory (DFT) calculations under these conditions correctly accounts fo...
Maximum of U Herculis Variable Star, at 0.6h, 22nd February, 2010 Magnitude=6.4mag Minimum=13.4mag Period= 2.1days Position(2000): RA =16 25 47.4713, Dec =+18 53 32.867
Planet named in honour of physicist An asteroid discovered by two astronomers in 2008 has been named after Wu Ta-you (1907-2000), an atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist known as the "father of contemporary Chinese physics." A ceremony was held yesterday at National Central Univ...
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