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Title: The sky brightness and transparency in i-band at Dome A, AntarcticaAuthors: Hu Zou, Xu Zhou, Zhaoji Jiang, M.C.B. Ashley, Xiangqun Cui, Longlong Feng, Xuefei Gong, Jingyao Hu, C. A. Kulesa, J.S. Lawrence, Genrong Liu, D.M. Luong-Van, Jun Ma, A. M. Moore, Weijia Qin, Zhaohui Shang, J.W.V. S...

Electricians prefer to keep power cords dry as a rule. But in Monterey, California, scientists and engineers are hopeful that immersing electrical cable off the coast will profoundly improve how the oceans are studied. This week, a team from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) w...

When seafarers described giant freak waves in tones of awe, sceptical landlubbers dismissed them as fantasy. Now scientists believe they have evidence of a wave the size of a 10-storey building. It happened on September 16 last year when Hurricane Ivan stormed across the Gulf of Mexic...

Data for Mount Tai's ancient trees stored on digital ID cards Nearly 20,000 ancient trees on the renowned Mount Tai in Shandong province now have "digital ID cards", the Mount Tai scenic area management committee said on Sunday. The digital ID cards hold basic information on the trees collected by a...

ATel 7774: Follow-up observations of ASASSN-15lh establish it as the most luminous supernova ever discovered

ATel 9856: Swift and Mount Laguna Observatory Photometry of Gaia16buy

ATel 9858: Spectroscopic Classification of SN 2016iuz as a Type Ia Supernova

Telecom satellite system to encircle globe China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp plans to build a global real-time communications satellite network by 2020, a senior company executive said. Sun Weigang, chief engineer at the State-owned space giant, said the Hongyan satellite system wi...

Title: Records of sunspot and aurora activity during 581-959 CE in Chinese official histories in the periods of Suí, Táng, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Author: Harufumi Tamazawa, Akito Davis Kawamura, Hisashi Hayakawa, Asuka Tsukamoto, Hiroaki Isobe, Yusuke Ebihara Recent studies o...

ESA's Integral space observatory, together with NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. [url=http://...

Title: Rings beyond the giant planets Author: Bruno Sicardy, Maryame El Moutamid, Alice C. Quillen, Paul M. Schenk, Mark R. Showalter, Kevin Walsh Until 2013, only the giant planets were known to host ring systems. In June 2013, a stellar occulation revealed the presence of narrow and dense rings a...

Title: A Transient Transit Signature Associated with the Young Star RIK-210 Author: Trevor J. David, Erik A. Petigura, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Ann Marie Cody, Andrew Collier Cameron, John R. Stauffer, B.J. Fulton, Howard T. Isaacson, Andrew W. Howard, Steve B. Howell, Mark E. Everett, Ji Wang, Bjö...

Title: The 26 December 2001 Solar Eruptive Event Responsible for GLE63. III. CME, Shock Waves, and Energetic Particles Author: V.V. Grechnev (1), V.I. Kiselev (1), A.M. Uralov (1), K.-L. Klein (2), A.A. Kochanov (1), ((1) Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia, (2) Obse...

Title: HAT-P-7b: An Extremely Hot Massive Planet Transiting a Bright Star in the Kepler Field Authors: A. Pal (1,2), G. A. Bakos (1,3), G. Torres (1), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), Geza Kovacs (4), G. W. Marcy (5), D. A. Fischer (6), R. P. Butler (7), D. D. Sasselov (1), B. Sipocz (2,1), G. A. Esquerdo...