Title: Cosmic Optical Background: the View from Pioneer 10/11 Authors: Y. Matsuoka, N. Ienaka, K. Kawara, S. Oyabu We present the new constraints on the cosmic optical background (COB) obtained from an analysis of the Pioneer 10/11 Imaging Photopolarimeter (IPP) data. After careful examinatio...
NASA is hosting a media teleconference at 18:00 GMT, Monday, September 12 to announce the detection of the most distant explosion yet, a gamma-ray burst from the edge of the visible universe.
Scientists detected the burst using the Swift satellite. Several ground-based telescopes, including...
Title: Mantle Convection, Plate Tectonics, and Volcanism on Hot Exo-Earths Authors: Joost van Summeren, Clinton P. Conrad, Eric Gaidos Recently discovered exoplanets on close-in orbits should have surface temperatures of 100's to 1000's of K. They are likely tidally locked and synchronously...
Title: Cool carbon stars in the halo: new very red or distant objects Authors: N. Mauron, K.S. Gigoyan, T.R. Kendall The goal of this paper is to present and analyse a new sample of cool carbon (C)stars located in the halo. Twenty three new C stars were discovered. Spectra are typical of N-type stars wi...
The 400 - 900 metre wide asteroid 1998 FH12 will make a close pass (53.7 lunar distances, 0.1379 AU), travelling at 20.98 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd June, 2011 @ 11:56 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Orbital elements: 2009 WW104 Earth MOID = 0.0359 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 53.33653 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51633513 Peri. 84.33311 +0.92727356 +0.35479509 a 1.5387979 Node 254.84105 -0.37336777 +0.85285742 e 0.4684874 Incl. 7.11291 -0.02757251 +0.38308571 P 1.91 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Golowan (sometimes also Goluan or Gol-Jowan) is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK: widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular Penzance and Newlyn. The celebrations were conducted from the 23rd of June (St...
The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake was a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Vancouver Island, on the Coast of British Columbia, Canada, at 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 23, 1946. Read more
Decade of tagging has mapped predatorial pathways in the north Pacific Ocean. Two vast areas of the north Pacific Ocean, one off the west coast of the United States and the other between Hawaii and Alaska, have been revealed as marine counterparts of East Africa's Serengeti plain. Teeming with life...
Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES has once again chosen Arianespace, this time to launch its new Astra 5B satellite. SES, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator, confirmed today that it has chosen Arianespace as primary launch provider for its Astra 5B satellite, within the scope of th...
A sophisticated security system has been installed at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory to protect millions of pounds worth of equipment from vandals.
Motion sensors and access control panels have been installed on all doors at the facility on Blackford Hill.
The upgrade has been driven by a f...
Building the TARDIS Micro-Observatory The TARDIS micro-observatory is now in operation; hopefully we'll start to see a few more cloudless nights and I'll be able to capture some new data. In the meantime, a brief write-up of the construction. [url=http://www.duncankitchin.org/?blog=show&a...
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