It looks like we have a new neighbour. It's actually been there all along, but astronomers have only now spotted what could be the seventh closest star system to the sun. The system is just nine light years away, a mere stone's throw in astronomical terms. It took so long to find because it's an extremel...
Title: Spectroscopic variabilities in Lambda Pavonis Authors: R. S. Levenhagen, N. V. Leister and R. Künzel Aims. We investigate the time-varying patterns in line profiles, V/R, and radial velocity of the Be star HD 173948 (Lambda Pavonis). Methods. Time series analyses of radial velocity, V/R...
A major breakthrough in pinpointing some of the most primordial and violently star forming galaxies in the Universe has been made by a joint collaboration of UK and US astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope to resolve primordial galaxies initially detected by the James Clerk Maxwell teles...
Title: CoRoT LRa02_E2_0121: Neptune-size planet candidate turns into a hierarchical triple system with a giant primary Authors: L. Tal-Or, A. Santerne, T. Mazeh, F. Bouchy, C. Moutou, R. Alonso, D. Gandolfi, S. Aigrain, M. Auvergne, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Borde, H. Deeg, S. Ferraz-Mello, M. D...
Title: Forming Realistic Late-Type Spirals in a LCDM Universe: The Eris Simulation Authors: Javiera Guedes, Simone Callegari, Piero Madau, Lucio Mayer (Version, v2) Simulations of the formation of late-type spiral galaxies in a cold dark matter LCDM universe have traditionally failed to yiel...
The Solar X-ray Observatory "Yohkoh" (SOLAR-A) will re-enter the earth's atmosphere as it has completed its in-orbit life.
It is predicted that the main body of the Yohkoh will vaporise during re-entry; therefore it will not make land-fall.
The Yohkoh was launched aboard M-3S-I...
Exotic Galaxy Reveals Tantalising Tale A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalising peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters of galaxies early in the history of the Universe. The galaxy, dubbed S...
Comet Howard-Koomen-Michels was a large sungrazer that collided with the Sun on August 30, 1979. It is the only comet known to have made contact with the Sun's surface, as most bodies vaporise before impact. Read more
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS (30 August 1871 - 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics. Read more
John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 - January 8, 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Read more
John Leonard 'Jack' Swigert, Jr., (August 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982) was a NASA astronaut, one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Read more
STS-41-D was the first flight of NASA's Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery. It was the 12th mission of the Space Shuttle program, and was launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 30 August 1984. The six-day mission saw three commercial communications satellites deployed into orbit by the shu...
Meteor Showers August has one major meteor shower. The Perseids Meteor Shower that peaks on August 13th. Shower Activity Period Maximum Radiant Velocity ZHR DateR.A. Dec. km/s S. Delta-AquariidsJuly 14-Aug 1830th July3.9h-51.8d14 km/s11.2Gamma Aquarids 2 August Alpha Ursa Majorid...
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