Shortly after 5 pm on 18 November 1929, an earthquake shook Canada's eastern provinces. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, a seismometer needle jumped right off track. Across the Gulf of St Lawrence, on Newfoundland's Burin peninsula, the tremors sent people running into the streets. But for them...
Maxima of long period variable Z Ceti on the 18th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.9-13.5 Period: 184.81 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 01 06 45.128 | Dec. -01° 28' 52.87'' Google earth file: Z Ceti.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable W Centauri on the 18th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.5-13.2 Period: 201.6 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 11 55 01.32637 | Dec. -59° 15' 13.5314'' Google earth file: W Centauri.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable Y Delphini on the 18th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.9-14.0 Period: 468.4 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 20 41 38.98 | Dec. +11° 52' 38.2'' Google earth file: Y Delphini.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Title: The Origin of OB Runaway Stars Authors: Michiko Fujii, Simon Portegies Zwart About 20% of all massive stars in the Milky Way have unusually high velocities, the origin of which has puzzled astronomers for half a century. We argue that these velocities originate from strong gravitational in...
Title: HST Discovery of a z = 3.9 Multiply Imaged Galaxy Behind the Complex Cluster Lens WARPS J1415.1+36 at z = 1.026 Authors: X. Huang, T. Morokuma, H. K. Fakhouri, G. Aldering, R. Amanullah, K. Barbary, M. Brodwin, N. V. Connolly, K. S. Dawson, M. Doi, L. Faccioli, V. Fadeyev, A. S. Fruchter, G. Gold...
PLoS Expands Mission Since 2000, PLoS's mission has been to make "the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." But more broadly, our goal has always been to reinvent research communication from top to bottom to fully exploit the potential offere...
Come learn about the 2011 Leonids meteor shower tomorrow, Friday, at 8 p.m. in the meeting room of the Elvis Stojko Arena on 16th Avenue just east of Yonge Street Friday, Nov. 18 is the night the Leonids shower reaches its peak, a perfect time to join the Richmond Hill Naturalists astronomy group at 8 p....
LRO Camera Team Releases High Resolution Global Topographic Map of Moon The science team that oversees the imaging system on board NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has released the highest resolution near-global topographic map of the moon ever created. This new topographic map, from A...
GOOGLE MUSIC: Internet giant sets up online music store Google have unveiled a new online music store in a direct challenge to the dominance of market leaders Apple and Amazon. Google Music is currently only available in the United States h...
Lochaber loses Unesco geopark status Unesco has withdrawn geopark status from an area of the Highlands that inspired work by scientist Charles Darwin in the 1800s. Volunteers running Lochaber Geopark could not raise the funds needed to employ a full-time project officer, a requirement of the des...
Archaeologists investigate Ice Age hominids adaptability to climate change Complex computational modeling provides clues to Neanderthal extinction Computational modelling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change d...
