New high resolution images of logging roads in the Congo region of Africa are helping researchers understand the expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa. Using highly detailed images from NASA and commercial satellite firms, scientists from the Woods Hole Research Centre (WHRC) crea...
Title: WASP-47: A Hot Jupiter System with Two Additional Planets Discovered by K2 Author: Juliette C. Becker, Andrew Vanderburg, Fred C. Adams, Saul A. Rappaport, Hans Martin Schwengeler Using new data from the K2 mission, we show that WASP-47, a previously known hot Jupiter host, also hosts two a...
Title: Impact of the physical processes in the modelling of HD49933 Authors: L. Piau, S. Turck-Chieze, V. Duez, R. F. Stein Context : On its asteroseismic side, the initial run of CoRoT was partly devoted to the solar like star HD49933.The eigenmodes of this F dwarf have been observed with unprecede...
NGC 7067 (also Collinder 436 and OCL 208) is a magnitude +9.7 open star cluster located 11,700 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Ber...
The pie at night: Meat and potato treat 'sent into space' A meat and potato pie attached to a weather balloon has been "sent into space". The pioneering pastry - believed to be the first ever launched into the stratosphere - was launched from Wigan earlier. Space enthusiasts have attached a camera and...
Earth's driest desert once had lakes The driest desert on Earth may once have had lakes and wetlands, scientists report. They have found the remnants of freshwater plants and animals buried in the arid plains of Chile's Atacama Desert. This watery period dates to between 9,000 and 17,000 years ago....
In 1919 meteorologist Albert Porta predicted that the world would end on December 17 because the conjunction of six planets would create a magnetic current that would pierce the sun, creating great explosions of flaming gas that would consume the Earth. It did indeed prove to be a lot of hot air but no...
Title: The Solar Twin Planet Search. V. Close-in, low-mass planet candidates and evidence of planet accretion in the solar twin HIP 68468 Author: Jorge Melendez, Megan Bedell, Jacob L. Bean, Ivan Ramirez, Martin Asplund, Stefan Dreizler, Hong-Liang Yan, Jian-Rong Shi, Karin Lind, Sylvio Ferra...
NASA Announces Media Briefing on New Hurricane Mission NASA will hold a media briefing at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 10, to discuss the upcoming Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission, a constellation of eight microsatellites that will gather never-before-seen details on t...
When tremors started cracking walls and bathroom tiles in this Swiss city on the Rhine, the engineers knew they had a problem. "The glass vases on the shelf rattled, and there was a loud bang. I thought a truck had crashed into the building" - Catherine Wueest, a teashop owner, recalls. Bu...
The next Galileo navigation satellite has touched down at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, to begin preparations for its launch in October. Cocooned within its protective, air-conditioned container, the satellite left the Thales Alenia Space Italy plant in Rome on Monday evening for nearb...
First optical signals spied from dead star Astronomers believe they have spotted an aurora around of one of the densest objects in the Universe. In the first observation of its kind, researchers say that they have seen optical light from a magnetar, an extremely dense, dying neutron star with a very...
NGC 5839 (also UGC 9693, MCG 0-38-23, and PGC 53865) is a magnitude +12.7 lenticular galaxy located 56 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall Fa...
Title: SN 2015bp: adding to the growing population of transitional type Ia supernovae Author: Shubham Srivastav, G. C. Anupama, D. K. Sahu, C. D. Ravikumar Photometric and spectroscopic observations of type Ia supernova 2015bp are presented, spanning ~-6 to ~+141 days since B-band maximum. Als...
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