Averted vision is a technique for viewing faint objects which uses peripheral vision. It involves not looking directly at the object, but looking a little off to the side, while continuing to concentrate on the object. This subject is discussed in the popular astronomy literature but only a few rig...
Imagination Can Influence Perception, Researchers Find Imagining something with our mind's eye is a task we engage in frequently, whether we're daydreaming, conjuring up the face of a childhood friend, or trying to figure out exactly where we might have parked the car. But how can we tell whether o...
Take a tour of the cosmos without ever leaving the ground. Through the power of Nelson astronomer Wayne Holmes' telescope, people can take a trip through the starry night skies nearly every weekend this summer and up to Christmas at Taghum Community Hall. Called Taghum Starry Nights, Holmes will b...
UFO mystery on Plaistow's Greenway? What they show is anybody's guess though. Harry St Louis was on his way home in the Greenway on the night of June 8 when he saw the large, bright light. At first he thought it was a firework but quickly discounted the theory as it continued to weave across the sky. [url=...
The Dawn of Math For ancient civilizations, knowing math was a matter of life and death. To build city walls that could repel raiding tribes required geometry. To build irrigation ditches or develop a calendar that would tell when to plant crops required complex calculations. Some ancients went fo...
The first Kazakh communications satellite, KazSat, will be delivered to the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan at the end of November, with a scheduled launch date aboard a Proton-M Briz-M rocket, on of December 25, 2005.
"We need to launch the satellite by December 25. Thirty-fi...
Zhumell Tachyon 25x100 Giant Binoculars Zhumell's Tachyon 25x100 Astronomical binocular is an industrial-strength, field-worthy instrument for astronomy. With 25X magnification, 100mm objective lenses and built-in tripod adapter, it offers plenty of power for observing craters on the mo...
Cape Cod stargazers get a new haven Through generous donations and determination, Brookhart and Tom Leach, both passionate amateur astronomers, have transformed a storage room of playground equipment into a community observatory and classroom over the past year. The observatory is now ready f...
Title: Heavy water around the L1448-mm protostar Authors: C. Codella, C. Ceccarelli, B. Nisini, R. Bachiller, J. Cernicharo, F. Gueth, A. Fuente, B. Lefloch (19 Oct 2010) L1448-mm is the prototype of a low-mass Class protostar driving a high-velocity jet. Given its bright H2O spectra observed w...
Red Mountain is a volcanic cinder cone located in the Coconino National Forest of northern Arizona, USA. 25 miles northwest of Flagstaff. It rises 1,000 ft. above surroundings. It has a shape of the letter "U", with its opening towards the west. Geological Survey (USGS) and Northern Ari...
Meteorite strikes in Harleston? A removal man from Long Stratton believes that a meteorite tore a gaping three to four inch hole in the roof of his 18-ton lorry. James Barber, 34, had parked his lorry at the Harleston base of international removal firm Hamiltons in Speedwell Way, and believes he hear...
Fantasy film Hong Kong director Tsui Hark has another accolade to add to his trove of honours: the International Astronomical Union has authorized the naming of an asteroid 3.5 billion kilometres from Earth after him. 23258 Tsuihark (2000 YY21) is a main-belt asteroid located between Mars and Sat...
The 270 - 600 metre wide asteroid 2002 NN4 will make a close pass (63.0 lunar distances, 0.1619 AU), travelling at 8.95 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th June, 2011 @ 18:03 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
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