Title: PSR J2030+3641: radio discovery and gamma-ray study of a middle-aged pulsar in the now identified Fermi-LAT source 1FGL J2030.0+3641 Authors: F. Camilo, M. Kerr, P.S. Ray, S.M. Ransom, S. Johnston, R.W. Romani, D. Parent, M.E. DeCesar, A.K. Harding, D. Donato, P.M. Saz Parkinson, E.C. Fe...
'UK spaceman' Nicholas Patrick honoured Nasa astronaut Nicholas Patrick has accepted a British Interplanetary Society pin to mark his achievements. The silver lapel badge is being given to all UK-born spacefarers who get to orbit the Earth. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environ...
Long-lasting all-weather night-vision material unveiled A US-based team of scientists claims to have invented a material that releases over two weeks of night-vision light after just one minute's exposure to the sun. The University of Georgia team says the near-infrared emitting substance co...
Title: The Embedded Massive Star Forming Region RCW 38 Authors: Scott J. Wolk, Tyler L. Bourke, Miquela Vigil RCW~38 is a uniquely young (< 1 Myr), embedded (A_V ~ 10) stellar cluster surrounding a pair of early O stars (~O5.5) and is one of the few regions within 2 kpc other than Orion to contain ov...
Title: The Carina Flare: What can fragments in the wall tell us? Authors: Richard Wunsch, Pavel Jachym, Vojtech Sidorin, Sona Ehlerova, Jan Palous, James Dale, Joanne R. Dawson, Yasuo Fukui ^{13}CO(J=2--1) and C^{18}O(J=2--1) observations of the molecular cloud G285.90+4.53 (Cloud~16) in th...
A blazing object blasted through the Earth's atmosphere over Queensland on Sunday night, leaving some witnesses startled by its size. Reports of a slow-moving double-headed meteor with an orange tail have been reported from Redcliffe to the Gold Coast [url=http://m.news.com.au/QLD/pg/0/fi...
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (April 13, 1905 - November 21, 1993) was a leading Italian-American experimental physicist. He made major contributions to cosmic ray and particle physics from 1930 through the 1950s, and pioneered X-ray astronomy and space plasma physics in the 1960s. Read more
Maxima of long period variable SW Sagittarii on the 21st November, 2011 Magnitude range: 10.0-13.4 Period: 289.9 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 19 19 52.45 | Dec -31° 42' 54.0'' Google earth file: SW Sagittarii.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Mysterious circles in the Baltic Sea An algal bloom? A mine? A UFO? No one knows. But it is clear that Swedish treasure hunters have found a giant circle on the Baltic seabed. The bay was a mirror in the morning on June 19. Six of the nine crew members aboard the fishing vessel lake was still asleep in their...
Brian Marsden (1937 Aug. 5 - 2010 Nov. 18) Brian Geoffrey Marsden was born on 1937 August 5 in Cambridge, England. His father, Thomas, was the senior mathematics teacher at a local high school. It was his mother, Eileen (nee West), however, who introduced him to the study of astronomy, when he return...
For backyard sky watchers and stargazers, Nick Reed's nifty invention is heavenly. Sitting out in a rural Osage cornfield, his tiny observatory looks like a funky shed. But there's no dried corn or hay inside. It holds Reed;s telescope. Called a DobHut Observatory, it's designed for the amateur as...
A possible magnitude 15.3 supernova was discovered on the 18th November, 2011, in the galaxy PGC 027923 (G11-12-23) in the constellation Ursa Major. Observed by F. Luppi and L. Buzzi (Schiaparelli Observatory). The supernova is located 2" East and 16" North from the center of the gal...
Manali Kallat Vainu Bappu (August 10, 1927 - August 19, 1982) was an Indian astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union. Bappu helped establish several astronomical institutions in India - including the Vainu Bappu Observatory named after him - and also contributed to the e...
