"Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 - 26 July 1925) was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic, and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics." [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Johannes Robert Rydberg, (November 8, 1854 - December 28, 1919), was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to predict the wavelengths of photons (of light and other electromagnetic radiation) emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron...
The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe. The library was formally re-opened on 8 November 1602 under the name "Bodleian Library" (officially Bodley's Library). Read more
Comet Arend-Roland was discovered on November 8, 1956, by Belgian astronomers Sylvain Arend and Georges Roland on photographic plates. As the eighth comet found in 1956, it was named Arend-Roland 1956h after its discoverers. Because it was the third comet to pass through perihelion during 1957,...
Second mission to scale deep mountains announced Scientists are set to begin a six-week mission to explore the Indian Ocean's underwater mountains. Aboard the UK research vessel the RRS James Cook, the team will study animals thousands of metres below the surface. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/n...
Title: Andromeda XXIX: A New Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy 200kpc from Andromeda Authors: Eric F. Bell, Colin T. Slater (University of Michigan), Nicolas F. Martin (MPIA Heidelberg) We report the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Andromeda XXIX, using data from the recently-released Sloan Digital Sky...
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. (August 27, 1915 - November 4, 2011) was an American physicist. A physics professor at Harvard University since 1947, Ramsey also held several posts with such government and international agencies as NATO and the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He was awarded th...
The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity, a mare, die...
Title: An optimal Earth Trojan asteroid search strategy Authors: M. Todd, P. Tanga, D. M. Coward, M. G. Zadnik Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. They are important solar-system fossils bec...
Title: The 5 hr pulse period and broadband spectrum of the Symbiotic X-ray Binary 3A 1954+319 Authors: Diana M. Marcu, Felix Fuerst, Katja Pottschmidt, Victoria Grinberg, Sebastian Mueller, Joern Wilms, Konstantin A. Postnov, Robin H. D. Corbet, Craig B. Markwardt, Marion Cadolle Bel We presen...
Title: The Pan-Pacific Planet Search. I. A Giant Planet Orbiting 7 CMa Authors: R.A. Wittenmyer, M. Endl, L. Wang, J.A. Johnson, C.G. Tinney, S.J. O'Toole We introduce the Pan-Pacific Planet Search, a survey of 170 metal-rich Southern hemisphere subgiants using the 3.9m Anglo-Australian Teles...
A possible magnitude 14.5 supernova was discovered on the 6th November, 2011, in the galaxy UGS 5460 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 67" east and 16" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 10 08 10.58 | Dec +51° 50'...
Maxima of long period variable R Indi on the 7th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.4-14.3 Period: 216.26 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 22 36 00.37 | Dec -67° 17' 15.8''
Maxima of long period variable RR Cephei on the 7th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 10.2-14.7 Period: 384.18 days Type: Mira Position (2000): 02:43:15.47 +81:08:09.5