Maxima of the long period variable star U Boötis on the 9th August, 2011. Magnitude range: 9.9-12.8 Period: 201.3 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA=14 54 19.96 | Dec= +17 41 43.6
Maxima of the long period variable star R Columbae on the 9th August, 2011. Magnitude range: 8.9-14.3 Period: 327.62 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA=05 50 32.98 | Dec= -29 11 54.8
Residents see strange object light up the night A meteor, space junk, satellite or alien spacecraft? A number of people, including Harold Watkins, saw what appeared to be a fireball Monday night in Botwood. He said the object had been moving west and disappeared behind Bishop's Falls, and did not ha...
Title: Coats Land crustal block, East Antarctica: A tectonic tracer for Laurentia? Authors: S.L. Loewy, I.W.D. Dalziel, S. Pisarevsky, J.N. Connelly, J. Tait, R.E. Hanson and D. Bullen Undeformed rhyolite and granophyre in the Coats Land crustal block of East Antarctica, dated as 1112 ± 4 Ma, are...
NASA Selects Companies To Study Storing Cryogenic Propellants In Space NASA has selected four companies to develop concepts for storing and transferring cryogenic propellants in space. These capabilities are important for the agency's future deep space human exploration missions. [url=ht...
The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2004 VB61 will make a close pass (73.4 lunar distances, 0.1887 AU), travelling at 6.29 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th November, 2011 @ 00:33 UT ±1 day 13:10. See moreThe Lun...
Vineyard doubles as observatory In a small "chicken coop" sitting among acres of grape vines at the Heritage Oaks Winery, 16 video cameras take pictures of the night sky, tracking almost anything that moves. The cameras, which were moved to the Acampo vineyard in May, are part of a NASA-f...
The Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2011 conference at NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA.K138:17: Opening Remarks From Jim Muncy21:12:47: Suborbital Spaceflight - Now Boarding31:16:00NewSpace 2011: Orbital Spaceflight and Beyond426:55: Public-Private Partnership...
Yahsat reveals complete satellite coverage of Africa at SATCOM 2008 Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat), the UAE's first nationally-owned satellite operator will be present at SATCOM 2008 for the first time. Read more
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged part of the Hickson Compact Group 7, or HCG 7 for short. This grouping is composed of one lenticular (lens-shaped) and three spiral galaxies in close proximity. In this image, one of the spirals dominates the foreground, with many more distant galaxie...
A flaming meteor streaked over Hungary late Friday evening, according to eyewitness accounts on several websites. Weather portal Idokep.hu put the meteor over Western Hungary at 9:46pm, based on eyewitness accounts by several hundred readers who watched it move across the sky for 3-4 seconds. A...
Fireball above Genoa Saturday evening, a big ball of fire streaked the Genovese sky. A vortex of hot streaks, with warm colours like red and yellow, flew up - for about twenty seconds - over the heads of spectators in disbelief, heralded by a sudden roar. [url=http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/genova/...
The Niue police chief says a large bang heard around the island late on Tuesday night sounded like thunder but may have been a meteor exploding. Read more
Title: Modelling the time variation of the surface differential rotation in AB Doradus and LQ Hydrae Authors: A. F. Lanza Sequences of Doppler images of the young, rapidly rotating late-type stars AB Dor and LQ Hya show that their equatorial angular velocity and the amplitude of their surface diff...
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