Title: A failed outburst of H1743-322 Authors: Fiamma Capitanio (1) ; Tomaso Belloni (2), Melania Del Santo (1) ; Pietro Ubertini (1) ((1) IASF-Roma INAF, Rome Italy, (2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera-INAF Italy) We report on a campaign of X-ray and soft gamma-ray observations of the black ho...
Zeljava Air Base, situated on the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina under Pljeevica Mountain, near the town of Bihac in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the largest underground airport and military airbase in the former Yugoslavia and one of the largest in Europe. [url=http://en.wik...
A Boost for European Radio Astronomy The European astronomy collaboration RadioNet has been granted 9.5 million Euros by the European Commission to fund its latest program, RadioNet3, for the years 2012 to 2015. RadioNet is responsible for improving the capabilities of, and enhancing access to...
Norwich man creates out of this world wine in Chile A new out-of-this-world wine, designed to give people a taste of the origins of the solar system, has been created by a Norwich-born man in Chile. Ian Hutcheon, who grew up in Hellesdon, has just launched a new Cabernet Sauvignon wine called Meteorit...
A SL-4 rocket body that was launched on the 21st December, 2011, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, for the Soyuz TMA-03M/29S mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 24th December, 2011 @ 18:41 GMT ± 24 hours.SL-4 RB
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This video presents the key events in 2012 for ESA. Aboard ISS André Kuipers will continue his task fro the 4th ESA long duration mission. A European ATV cargo will bring food and supplies to the orbital outpost for the 3rd time. Early in the ye...
Title: Spin period evolution of the X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 Authors: A. González-Galán, E. Kuulkers, P. Kretschmar, S. Larsson, K. Postnov, A. Kochetkova, M. H. Finger We report on the long-term evolution of the spin period of the symbiotic X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 and a possible interpretation within a mod...
As the fragments of shattered comet 73P/Schwassmann Wachmann 3 glide harmlessly past Earth this month in full view of backyard telescopes, onlookers can't h...
Magnitude 3.1 earthquake rattles Winslow area According to the USGS, the quake hit at 12:11 p.m. about 21 miles southwest of Winslow and about 113 miles northeast of Phoenix. (Winslow is about a 3-hour drive from Phoenix.) With a depth of just over 3 miles, the temblor was a relatively shallow one. [u...
'Palaeolithic tombs discovered' in Yemen Two hundred Palaeolithic tombs have been discovered in the western al-Mahwit region of Yemen, reports say. The tombs contain embalmed mummies and other funerary relics, according to the state-run Saba news agency. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/w...
On January 10, 1962, NASA announced plans to build the C-5. The three-stage rocket would consist of five F-1 engines for the first stage, five J-2 engines for the second stage, and a single, additional J-2 engine for the third stage. The C-5 was designed for the higher payload capacity necessary for a...
Maxima of long period variable RW Pegasi on the 10th January, 2012. Magnitude: 9.7-14.0 Period: 208.43 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 23 04 11.48 | Dec. +15° 18' 11.9''
NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Completes Mission Operations After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has made its last observation. The satellite provided unprecedented views into the extreme environments around white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes. RXT...
