* Astronomy

WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath Just in time for the holidays, astronomers have come across a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, that some say resembles a wreath. You might even think of the red dust cloud as a cheery red bow, and the bluish-white stars as silver bells. T...

Maxima of long period variable S Sculptoris on the 24th December, 2010. Magnitude: 6.7-12.9 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 00 15 22.2650, Dec -32 02 42.987

The 1854 Ansei-Tokai earthquake was the first of the Ansei Great Earthquakes (1854-1855). It occurred at about 09:00 local time on 23 December, 1854. It had a magnitude of 8.4 and caused a damaging tsunami. More than 10,000 buildings were completely destroyed and there were at least 2,000 casualti...

Quartermass And The Pit 1967

Scientists from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College have discovered that the Murchison meteorite that hit Australia in 1969 contains the nucleobases, uracil and xanthine. Nucleobases are m...

Jupiter's heart is dissolving New calculations suggest that Jupiter's rocky core is dissolving like an antacid tablet plopped in water. The work could help explain why its core appears smaller and its atmosphere richer in heavy elements than predicted. Giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn are t...

Title: Unitarity and the Holographic S-Matrix Authors: A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan The bulk S-Matrix can be given a non-perturbative definition in terms of the flat space limit of AdS/CFT. We show that the unitarity of the S-Matrix, ie the optical theorem, can be derived by studying the beha...

1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in the mountains of North Georgia believed to be at least 1,100 years old. According to Richard Thornton at Examiner.com, the ruins are reportedly what remains of a city built by May...

China launches remote-sensing satellite[url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/china-launches-remote-s...

ASAP-S 1 38013U 11076G 11355.93032496 +.00382577 +00000-0 +39387-1 00209 2 38013 097.9896 065.9625 0010073 158.6110 201.5506 14.88036963000716 Period: 96.78 minutes Inclination: 97.99° Apogee: 611 km Perigee: 597 km

SSOT 1 38011U 11076E 11356.40743213 -.00037121 00000-0 -44878-2 202 2 38011 097.9837 066.4284 0004494 043.5717 316.5740 14.83906223 774 Period: 97.04 minutes Inclination: 97.98° Apogee: 620 km Perigee: 614 km

Arianespace to launch ELISA satellites Astrium has selected Arianespace to launch four satellites of the space segment of the ELISA demonstrator. The four ELISA satellites will be placed in heliosynchronous orbit by a Soyuz rocket to be launched from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Gui...

Attack of The Blob It invaded the big screen more than 50 years ago and now The Blob has hit Worcester. A mysterious goo - likened to the giant blob that terrorised a small American town in the classic horror film - began appearing in the city yesterday, leaving passers by scratching their heads. First s...

A giant leap for Kochi school Haven't seen a real rocket in the ball park? Don't worry. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will set up a space lab at a school in North Paravur in Kochi. Models of space vehicles will be among the various gadgets and equipments to be showcased at the space lab, w...

The ERS 5 satellite that was launched on the 9th May, 1963, from Point Arguello, USA, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 3rd December, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.ERS 5 1 00579U 63014B 11300.54172982 .02136254 00000-0 85264-1 5038 2 00579 084.3539 113.0993 0858717 200.4190 16...