Maxima of long period variable SV Herculis on the 4th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 9.8-14.4 Period: 238.99 days Type: Mira Position (J2000): R.A. 18 26 23.300 | Dec. +25° 01' 34.49'' Google earth file: SV Herculis.kmz (1kb, kmz)
Maxima of long period variable S Aquilae on the 4th November, 2011 Magnitude range: 8.9-12.4 Period: 146.45 days Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 20 11 37.47049 | Dec +15° 37' 14.5858'' Google earth file: S Aquilae.kmz (5kb, kmz)
The Ludi Plebeii ("Plebeian Games") were a religious festival held in ancient Rome in the middle of November, originally from 16-18 November and expanded to run November 4-17; established 216 BC and held in the Circus, and continued in the 4th century of the Christian era.. It consisted...
Title: Tracking Down the Highest Spindown Power Gamma-ray Pulsars Authors: X. Hou, D. Dumora, M. Lemoine-Goumard, M.-H.Grondin, D.A. Smith, for the Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, for the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium Forty six gamma-ray pulsars were reported in the First Fermi La...
NASA Flies to Antarctica for Largest Airborne Polar Ice Survey NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at Earth's po...
China, India's largest trading partner, claims sovereignty over parts of Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh and calls it southern Tibet. It refuses to recognise the "imperialist" 1913 Shimla Convention under which Tibet ceded Tawang to India and regards its border with India -- the McMaho...
PSR B1919+21 is a pulsar with a period of 1.3373 seconds and a pulse width of 0.04 second. It is notable for being the first radio pulsar ever discovered (in July 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell). Its original designation was CP 1919 and it is also known as PSR J1921+2153. It is located in the constellation...
Title: IAU Commission 35 Stellar Constitution - Triennial report 2009-2011 Authors: Corinne Charbonnel IAU Commission 35 consists of members of the International Astronomical Union whose research is concerned with the structure and evolution of stars in all parts of the H-R diagram. Their int...
A possible magnitude 15.9 supernova was discovered by S. Parker on the 27th February, 2011, in the galaxy NGC 4219 in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is located 11.9" west and 6.5" north from the center of the galaxy.As yet they type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 12 16 26.00...
An RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile was successfully test launched from the Plesetsk Space Centre by Russia's Strategic Missile Forces at 06:45 GMT, today. The missile successfully hit a target in the Kura test range in Kamchatka at 7:10 GMT.
UA team attempts to map Milky Way If they win NASA's $55 million grant, the UA Steward Observatory's GUSSTO mission will map the Milky Way galaxy through its telescope's 1-meter diameter mirror. About 1,000 feet of cable would connect the telescope to a balloon that can expand wider than a football f...
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Title: Do all O stars form in star clusters? Authors: Carsten Weidner, Vasilii V. Gvaramadze, Pavel Kroupa, Jan Pflamm-Altenburg The question whether or not massive stars can form in isolation or only in star clusters is of great importance for the theory of (massive) star-formation as well as for...
Title: Constraints on neutron star mass and radius in GS 1826-24 from sub-Eddington X-ray bursts Authors: Michael Zamfir, Andrew Cumming, Duncan K. Galloway We investigate the constraints on neutron star mass and radius in GS 1826-24 from models of lightcurves and spectral evolution of type I X-...
Title: AA Doradus and its Cool Companion - The Influence of Enhanced Metal Line Blanketing and the Reflection Effect Authors: Sebastian Müller, Stephan Geier, Ulrich Heber AA Dor is one of only twelve so called HW-Vir systems, which are perfectly suited to determine fundamental properties like r...
