Title: EVLA Nova Project Observations of the Classical Nova V1723 Aquilae Authors: Miriam I. Krauss, Laura Chomiuk, Michael Rupen, Nirupam Roy, Amy J. Mioduszewski, J. L. Sokoloski, Thomas Nelson, Koji Mukai, M. F. Bode, S. P. S. Eyres, T. J. O'Brien We present radio light curves and spectra of the...
An evening stargazing event will be held Thursday, July 14, at Chatham Area Public Library. The free program, presented by the Sangamon Astronomical Society in cooperation with CAPL, will have three types of amateur telescopes available for use. Read more
Jacques Eugène d'Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle (July 14, 1671 - September 1732) was a French astronomer and mathematician. The crater Louville on the Moon is named after him. Read more
Maxima of the long period variable R Tucanae on the 14th July, 2011. Magnitude: 9.8-15.1 Period: 286.06 days Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 23 57 26.35 | Dec -65 23 04.8
Asteroid 2008 LW16 was discovered on 15 June by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS). Earth MOID = 5.6 LD H = 19.6 Diameter: 407m Read more Ephemeris:/pre>Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2008 06 13 21 09.96 -01 58.3 0.266 1.1...
The 630 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2003 YS117 will make a close pass (73.9 lunar distances, 0.1900 AU), travelling at 17.75 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th July, 2011 @ 19:38 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Title: A 12 minute Orbital Period Detached White Dwarf Eclipsing Binary Authors: Warren R. Brown (1), Mukremin Kilic (1), J. J. Hermes (2), Carlos Allende Prieto (3), Scott J. Kenyon (1), D. E. Winget (2) ((1) SAO, (2) UT Austin, (3) IAC) We have discovered a detached pair of white dwarfs (WDs) with a 1...
An Arianespace Soyuz rocket with a a Fregat upper stage is scheduled to launch a Globalstar mobile communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 17:10 GMT, 19th October, 2010.
New evidence from excavations made by archaeologists at the ash altar of Zeus in Arcadia, Greece, has indicated that the place of worship was in use as early as 5,000 years ago, which is at least 1,000 years before the early Greeks began to worship the god Zeus. [url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsp...
Title: Supernova 2000cb: high-energy version of SN 1987A Authors: V.P. Utrobin (1 and 2), N.N. Chugai (3) ((1) MPA, Garching, (2) ITEP, Moscow, (3) Institute of Astronomy, RAS, Moscow) Among type IIP supernovae there are a few events that resemble the well-studied supernova 1987A produced by the...
Title: Odyssey 2 : A mission toward Neptune and Triton to test General Relativity Authors: Benjamin Lenoir, Bruno Christophe, Agnès Lévy, Bernard Foulon, Serge Reynaud, Jean-Michel Courty, Brahim Lamine, Hansjörg Dittus, Tim van Zoest, Claus Lämmerzahl, Hanns Selig, Sylvie Léon-Hirtz, Rich...
George Driver "Pinky" Nelson (born July 13, 1950) is a former NASA astronaut. During STS-1 he was the photographer in the prime chase plane. He also served as support crewman and CAPCOM for the last two OFT flights, STS-3 and STS-4, and as head of the Astronaut Office Mission Development G...
Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev (born July 13, 1934 in Zhizdra) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew on three missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 5, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Read more
Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XX. CoRoT-18b: a massive hot jupiter on a prograde, nearly aligned orbit Authors: G. Hebrard, T.M. Evans, R. Alonso, M. Fridlund, A. Ofir, S. Aigrain, T. Guillot, J.M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A.S. Bonomo, P. Borde, F. B...