Discovery of big diamond mine sparkles in Liaoning A large diamond deposit that can be mined for more than 30 years has been discovered in Liaoning province, officials from the local geology and mineral resources exploration bureau said on Wednesday. The deposit, in Wafangdian, Northeast China'...
Hubble Pinpoints Farthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction - the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early universe. In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble s...
Title: On the nature of the Herbig B[e] star binary system V921 Scorpii: Discovery of a close companion and relation to the large-scale bipolar nebula Authors: Stefan Kraus, Nuria Calvet, Lee Hartmann, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Alexander Kreplin, John D. Monnier, Gerd Weigelt Belonging to the group o...
Keele Universitys observatory is set to be restored in a £700,000 project to create a top visitor attraction and promote astronomy and the physical sciences to students and the community. The University plans to add new equipment, demonstrations, simulations and exhibition space to make the Ob...
Astronomy Ireland says a fireball was spotted over Ireland last Tuesday evening at around 8:20pm, and was so intensely bright that it could be seen from areas as diverse as Cork and Derry - and even through light cloud cover. After issuing an appeal for reports on where the meteor was heading - with com...
Totem pole carver revives dying art Totem pole carving was once a thriving tradition passed on through the generations. But when David Boxley tried to learn the craft there was nobody left alive to teach him. A member of the Tsimshian tribe from Alaska, he began researching the lost art, visiting mus...
Title: On the nature of the peculiar superthin galaxy UGC 12281 Authors: Philip Günster, Dominik J. Bomans UGC 12281 has been classified as having a pure disk and being a low surface brightness galaxy (LSBG), thus being an obvious member of the so-called superthin galaxies. At the same time it repre...
Title: The Distance of the Gamma-ray Binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 Authors: Vanessa J. Napoli, M. Virginia McSwain, Amber N. Marsh Boyer, Rachael M. Roettenbacher The recently discovered gamma-ray binary 1FGL J1018.6-5856 has a proposed optical/near-infrared (OIR) counterpart 2MASS 10185560-...
Maxima of long period variable S Sagittarii on the 13th January, 2012. Magnitude: 10.2-14.8 Period: 230.64 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 19 19 25.93 | Dec. -19° 01' 24.6'' Google earth file: S Sagittarii.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable R Piscium on the 13th January, 2012. Magnitude: 8.2-14.3 Period: 344.5 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 01 30 38.400 | Dec. +02° 52' 53.56'' Google earth file: R Piscium.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Commercial photographer Brent Gilstrap captures a moonbow over Yosemite Falls. Ideal conditions for moonbows include clear skies, abundant mist at the base of a fall and the absence of artificial light. For more information see article below by Eric Bailey -- Click on Link for the complete articl...
'No evidence' of explosion in Derry's Waterside Police have said they have found no evidence that an explosion occurred in the Waterside area of Londonderry. Read more
State patrol, Coast Guard find nothing in two-hour search for Jekyll Island plane crash[url=http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2012-01-12/story/s...
Students launch balloon to view the edge of space Twenty-eight members of the Astronomy Club at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland worked for several months to prepare a giant latex weather balloon bearing a box of cameras and data-collecting equipment. They sent the probe aloft las...
Paul Alivisatos, director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeleys Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology, has won the prestigious Wolf Foundation Prize in Chemistry for 2012. [url=...
