WinStars is a virtual planetarium.
View the night sky as it appears from anywhere on Earth, and for free...
WinStars 2.074 R2 (February 2, 2006 ) uses the latest 3D technology to show the objects of our solar system in a realistic manner. Thus, it is possible to move from one planet to another, to...
China and UK strike space deal Chinese and UK companies have agreed a deal that will result in three high-resolution Earth observation spacecraft being built to map China's extraordinary growth from orbit. The deal was penned between Guildford satellite imagery provider DMCii and Beijing-base...
University of Tokyo observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert named world's highest The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory atop Cerro Chajnantor, a mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert, has been named the world's highest-altitude observatory by Guinness World Records. [url=http://mdn.mai...
Title: Kepler-14b: A massive hot Jupiter transiting an F star in a close visual binary Authors: Lars A. Buchhave, David W. Latham, Joshua A. Carter, Jean-Michel Désert, Guillermo Torres, Elisabeth R. Adams, Stephen T. Bryson, David B. Charbonneau, David R. Ciardi, Craig Kulesa, Andrea K. Dupree...
PBS Specials _ Journey to PalomarClick to Play | View Details The film traces the story of the Chicago-born astronomer George Ellery Hale as he struggles to build the greatest telescopes of the 20th century.
The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. Read more
The Battle of the Hydaspes River was fought by Alexander the Great in May or June 326 BC against King Porus of the Hindu Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River) in the Punjab near Bhera in what is now modern-day Pakistan. The battle resulted in a complete Macedonian victory and...
Knocking down menhirs In advance of the construction of a housing project by Nexity Foncier Conseil, in Champagne-sur-Oise (Val-d'Oise), a team of Inrap archaeologists is excavating a one hectare surface, under the curation of the State (Drac Ile-de-France). At the site of "Basses Coutur...
THEMIS Arrives in Florida for Launch Preparations
NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions During Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft arrived in Florida today, to begin final testing and launch preparations. THEMIS is scheduled to lift off on Feb. 15 aboard a Delta II rock...
Kowa TSN-884 Straight 88mm Prominar Lens Spotting Scope (Body Only) It's the big objective lens-indeed, the "eye" of the Kowa Prominar Spotting Scope that sets it apart from the competition. For birders and hunters alike, these are the scopes that re-define clarity, because-among th...
Astronaut Group 4 (The Scientists) was the fourth group of astronauts selected by NASA in June 1965. While the astronauts of the previous three groups were required to have college and some advanced degrees, they were primarily chosen for their test pilot backgrounds. The six members of Group 4, on...
Professor Brian Cox goes back to basics in an unplugged lecture that will take a live audience of famous faces, scholars and amateur enthusiasts on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics in A Night With The Stars (working title) on BBC Two. [url=http://www.newsonnews.n...
Los Alamos nuclear lab: New Mexico fire forces closure One of the top nuclear weapons research facilities in the US will remain closed until Thursday as fire fighters battle a wildfire raging at its boundary. Only "essential-duties" staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be perm...
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