NASA's Hubble Breaks New Ground with Distant Supernova Discovery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe. The supernova is the remnant of a star that exploded 9 billion yea...
Orbital elements:
2012 AW12 Earth MOID = 0.0520 AU
Epoch 2011 Dec. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455920.5 MPC
M 20.48118 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34606918 Peri. 253.30930 +0.58001607 -0.74182685
a 2.0092197 Node 151.30124 +0.69035950 +0.66695303
e 0.6622669 Incl. 44.49710 -0.43241776 +0.06976093
P 2.85 H 20.4...
Patricia "Patsy" Edson Tombaugh, community leader, educator, artist, and enthusiastic supporter of her astronomy pioneer husband Clyde, discover of the planet Pluto, died Thursday at the Arbors of Del Rey in Las Cruces. She was 99. She was in Florida for the 2006 launch of the New Horiz...
Title: Final results of the EDELWEISS-II WIMP search using a 4-kg array of cryogenic germanium detectors with interleaved electrodes Authors: EDELWEISS Collaboration: E. Armengaud, C. Augier, A. Benoît, L. Bergé, J. Blümer, A. Broniatowski, V. Brudanin, B. Censier, M. Chapellier, F. Charlie...
Cosmic Obsession with Francis Walsh and Bob Fitzhenry - The Outer Space - 1/14/2012 This is a live broadcast with Francis Walsh (ThePerfectMinds) and Bob Fitzhenry (TheMasterMind) at Night Sky Network ,Last Night Saturday 1/14 was anoth...
Title: Search for Antihelium with the BESS-Polar Spectrometer Authors: K. Abe, H. Fuke, S. Haino, T. Hams, M. Hasegawa, A. Horikoshi, A. Itazaki, K.C. Kim, T. Kumazawa, A. Kusumoto, M.H. Lee, Y. Makida, S. Matsuda, Y. Matsukawa, K. Matsumoto, J.W. Mitchell, Z. Myers, J. Nishimura, M. Nozaki, R. Or...
Title: Massive star-formation toward G28.87+0.07 (IRAS 18411-0338) investigated by means of maser kinematics and radio to infrared, continuum observations Authors: J. J. Li, L. Moscadelli, R. Cesaroni, R. S. Furuya, Y. Xu, T. Usuda, K. M. Menten, M. Pestalozzi, D. Elia, E. Schisano We used the V...
UGPSJ0722-05 is a sub-brown dwarf located approximately nine light years from Earth. The astronomical object was discovered by Philip Lucas at the University of Hertfordshire in 2010. Read more
Rowton meteorite 'very important' in solar system study A meteorite that fell in Shropshire has been described as "significant" in the study of how the solar system formed. Parts of the Rowton meteorite, which fell in 1876, are examined by scientists and kept in museums all over the worl...
Marvel -- the Martian airborne research vehicle is a student project carried out in Kiruna, Sweden. The project is hosted by the division of space technology at Luleĺ University of technology. The objective of this project is to design, bu...
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes upto 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids. [url...
Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (January 17, 1761 - June 23, 1832) was a Scottish geologist and geophysicist, born at Dunglass, Haddingtonshire. Sir James Hall was President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and author of various works on architecture and the sciences. Read more
The grazing eclipsing dwarf nova CW Monocerotis is in outburst. Date: 27th October 2008 Magnitude: 11.9 - 16.3 Period: 121.7 days Satellite period: 0.1766 days Type: UGSSPosition(2000): RA=06 36 54.58, Dec=+00°02'17.2"
The dwarf nova TW Virginis is in outburst. Date: 22nd April 2011 Magnitude range: 11.2 - 16.4 V Period: 32 days Satellite period: 0.18267 days Type: UGSS Position(2000): RA=11 45 21.16, DE=-04°26;05.6"
