LOFAR telescope shines in show at Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Between 18 and 28 August, the LOFAR telescope will be part of a show at the famous Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival in Groningen, the Netherlands. This festival is an 11-day international, cultural event with a huge number o...
The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2008 NA will make a close pass (63.1 lunar distances, 0.1620 AU), travelling at 12.01 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th November, 2011 @ 14:24 UT ±08:41. See moreThe Lunar Dista...
The 500 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2008 WL64 will make a close pass (64.0 lunar distances, 0.1645 AU), travelling at 34.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th November, 2011 @ 08:53 UT ±1 day 03:53. See moreThe...
A type Ia magnitude 14.3 supernova, 2011ek, was discovered on the 4th August, 2011, by K. Itagaki in the 14th magnitude barred spiral galaxy NGC 918 in the constellation Aries. The supernova is located 27" west and 133" north from the center of the galaxy. The galaxy also hosted supernova...
A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the EDUSAT satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.EDUSAT
1 37788U 11044A 11230.77811885 -.00000053 00000-0 00000+0 129
2 37788 098.2631 304.3113 0040092 344.7037 015.2923 14.67547...
A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket successfully launched the SICH 2 satellite along with other payloads at 07:12 GMT, 17th August, 2011, from Yasny in southern Russia.SICH 2
1 37794U 11044G 11230.85440586 -.00000048 00000-0 00000+0 91
2 37794 098.2592 304.3690 0011849 282.1787 077.8073 14.59815516...
Turkey plans to launch its first domestically-built earth observation satellite next year. Rasat, having a high-resolution optical imaging system and new modules developed by Turkish engineers, will be the first earth observation satellite to be designed and manufactured in Turkey. [url=ht...
High Confidence Meteorite Fall in Northeast Ohio On August 8 at 1:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 4 all sky cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario Meteor Network detected a fireball entering the atmosphere 54 miles above Lake Erie (80.944 W, 41.945 N), moving SSE at 25 km/s. Decelerating rapidly, the...
Title: Strong Variable Ultraviolet Emission from Y Gem: Accretion Activity in an AGB Star with a Binary Companion? Authors: Raghvendra Sahai, James D. Neill, Armando Gil de Paz, Carmen Sánchez Contreras Binarity is believed to dramatically affect the history and geometry of mass loss in AGB and p...
Title: TrES-5: A Massive Jupiter-sized Planet Transiting A Cool G-dwarf Authors: Georgi Mandushev, Samuel N. Quinn, Lars A. Buchhave, Edward W. Dunham, Markus Rabus, Brian Oetiker, David W. Latham, David Charbonneau, Timothy M. Brown, Juan A. Belmonte, Francis T. O'Donovan We report the disco...
Title: Tidal asteroseismology: Kepler's KOI-54 Authors: Joshua Burkart, Eliot Quataert, Phil Arras, Nevin N. Weinberg We develop a general framework for interpreting and analysing high-precision lightcurves from eccentric stellar binaries. Although our methods are general, we focus on th...
A team of astronomers from France and South Africa announced the first catalogue of a new type of gamma-ray source, a dozen clouds of “relic” radiation from dead stars that reveal information about the energetic past of these celestial objects. These findings were presented on Feb. 5, 2007 at the fi...
One of the biggest computer simulations ever run is illuminating the deepest mysteries of the universe
The simulation by an international team is the biggest ever attempted and shows how structures in the Universe changed and grew over billions of years.
The Millen...
