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Exotic Quantum crystal discovered Nature knows two opposite types of solids: one that emerges upon compression from a liquid and a second that appears if the pressure on a liquid is reduced. While the former is typical for substances in our everyday life the latter occurs for example in a dense quant...

Bob Veilleux, a retired astronomy teacher who works as a part-time educator at McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Centre, is a meteorite buff with a collection of more than 250 at his home in Hooksett. But he still has yet to see a meteorite found in the Granite State. In 1985, Veilleux finished second in Ne...

A possible magnitude 10.2 Nova was discovered on the 4th August, 2011, in the constellation Lupus. Position (2000): RA 14 54 20 | Dec -55° 05' 03''

The Rutherford Centennial Conference on Nuclear Physics will be held at The University of Manchester on 8-12 August 2011. The event will celebrate the centenary of the publication of Rutherford's paper describing the discovery of the atomic nucleus. The conference will mark one hundred years of...

Wolfgang Paul (August 10, 1913 - December 7, 1993) was a German physicist, who co-developed the non-magnetic quadrupole mass filter which laid the foundation for what we now call an ion trap. He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half...

Abu Ma'shar, Ja'far ibn Muammad al-Balkhi (also known as al-Falak or Ibn Balkh, Latinised as Albumasar, Albusar, or Albuxar) (10 August 787 in Balkh, Khurasan - 9 March 886 in Wasi, Iraq), was a Persian astrologer, astronomer, and Islamic philosopher, thought to be the greatest astrologer of the A...

Maxima of long period variable T Normae on the 25th December, 2010. Magnitude: 7.4-13.2 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 15 44 03.8426, Dec -54 59 12.509

Star gazers festival scheduled for Aug. 10[url=http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/clearwatertimes/opinion/98138644.html]R...

Orbital elements: 2011 PF2 Earth MOID = 0.1134 AU Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC M 39.26067 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63082278 Peri. 301.99517 +0.07649046 +0.98017647 a 1.3464735 Node 330.66953 -0.74163505 -0.06658637 e 0.2291260 Incl. 21.90745 -0.66642829 +0.18660212 P 1.56 H 21.6 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 PC2 Earth MOID = 0.1471 AU Epoch 2011 July 18.0 TT = JDT 2455760.5 MPC M 341.42612 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25247579 Peri. 272.34467 +0.94889416 -0.27966508 a 2.4792647 Node 103.92260 +0.31436867 +0.87840227 e 0.5925636 Incl. 8.66578 -0.02778873 +0.38755244 P 3.90 H 23.0 G...

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Huge Impact Crater Found in Remote Congo A circular depression deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been confirmed as the first known impact crater in central Africa, a new study says. The find brings the number of known meteor craters on Earth to 182. The so-called Luizi structure w...

Title: The young B-star quintuple system HD 155448 Authors: O. Schuetz (1), G. Meeus (2), A. Carmona (3,4), A. Juhász (5), M. F. Sterzik (1) ((1) European Southern Observatory, Santiago, Chile, (2) Departamento de Física, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, (3) ISDC Data Centre for Astrophys...

Francesco Barozzi (in Latin, Franciscus Barocius) (9 August 1537 - 23 November 1604) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and humanist. Read more

Jonathan Homer Lane (August 9, 1819, Geneseo, New York - May 3, 1880, Washington D.C.) was an American astrophysicist and inventor. Lane was particularly interested in astronomy, and was the first to perform a mathematical analysis of the Sun as a gaseous body. Read more