Want to help astronomers make awesome discoveries and understand our Universe? By connecting 100s and 1000s of computers together through the Internet, it's possible to simulate a single machine capable of doing some pretty amazing stuff. theSkyNet is a community computing project dedicated t...
Title: Filamentary Large Scale Structure Traced by Six Ly-alpha Blobs at z=2.3 Authors: Dawn K. Erb, Milan Bogosavljevic, Charles C. Steidel Extended nebulae of Ly-alpha emission ("Ly-alpha blobs") are known to be associated with overdense regions at high redshift. Here we present...
Title: Out of the frying pan: a young pulsar with a long radio trail emerging from SNR G315.9-0.0 Authors: F. Camilo (1), C.-Y. Ng (2), B. M. Gaensler (2), S. M. Ransom (3), S. Chatterjee (4), J. Reynolds (5), J. Sarkissian (5) ((1) Columbia U., (2) U. of Sydney, (3) NRAO, (4) Cornell U., (5) ATNF) The fai...
Title: Impactor flux and cratering on Ceres and Vesta: Implications for the early Solar System Authors: G. C. de Elía, R. P. Di Sisto We study the impactor flux and cratering on Ceres and Vesta caused by the collisional and dynamical evolution of the asteroid Main Belt. We develop a statistical code b...
The HARPS-N spectrograph is a high-precision instrument, similar to HARPS on the 3.6-m ESO telescope in Chile. It will be located in the Northern hemisphere on the William-Herschel Telescope to allow for synergy with the NASA Kepler mission. The main scientific rationale of HARPS-N is the charac...
William Bowen Bonnor is a mathematician and gravitation physicist best known for his research into astrophysics, cosmology and general relativity. For most of his academic career he has been a professor of mathematics at the University of London. William Bonnor was born in London on 13 September...
Wilhelm Filchner (September 13, 1877 - May 7, 1957) was a German explorer. At the age of 21, he participated in his first expedition, which led him to Russia. Two years later, he travelled alone and on horseback through the Pamir Mountains, from Osh to Murgabh to the upper Wakhan to Tashkurgan and back...
Constantin Carathéodory (September 13, 1873 - February 2, 1950) was a Greek mathematician. He made significant contributions to the theory of functions of a real variable, the calculus of variations, and measure theory. His work also includes important results in conformal representations an...
In ancient Roman religion, the Epulum Jovis (also Epulum Iovis) was a sumptuous ritual feast offered to Jove on the Ides of September (September 13) and a smaller feast on the Ides of November (November 13). Read more
Cardiff University Health Board take lessons from space It's unusual for the paths of the NHS and NASA to cross yet those two working environments have a lot in common, as staff from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board have been finding out. In the past two months, health board staff have partici...
The Qiantang River (also known as the Qian River) is a southeast Chinese river that originates in the borders of Anhui and Jiangxi provinces and passes through Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, before flowing into the East China Sea through Hangzhou Bay. The river and bay are known for the...
Title: High Amplitude, Periodic Variability of a Cool Brown Dwarf: Evidence for Patchy, High-Contrast Cloud Features Authors: Jacqueline Radigan, Ray Jayawar dhana, David Lafrenier , Etienne Ar tigau, Mark Marley, Didier Saumon We present continuous photometric monitoring in the J, H, and Ks...
Caltech contest challenges students to prepare asteroid mission Nearly three dozen students from Caltech and around the world are competing this week in the "Caltech Space Challenge." The goal: design a mission to send astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid and return with a sample. The...
The "Dance Your Ph.D." Contest Create an online video of your Ph.D. thesis interpreted in dance form. A cash prize goes to the best Ph.D. dance. How to enter: Turn your Ph.D. thesis into a dance. Post the video at Vimeo.com. Send us the link by 10 October 2011. [url=http://gonzol...
