Dinner with the Stars - an SKA Event Join Dr Phil Diamond, leader of CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, for dinner at the Victorian Space Science Education Centre (VSSEC). Discover the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and why it is important for Australia. Enjoy a fully catered three course meal and dis...
STUDENT LAUNCH RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 20 After analysing the results of a test on the parachute system for the SL-5 rocket, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) Director Dr. Patricia Hynes has rescheduled the SL-5 Student Launch to Friday, May 20. Engineers from UP Aerospace conferred with NMSG...
The cataclysmic binary CR Bootis is in outburst. Date: 16th May, 2011 Magnitude range: 13.0 - 17.5 V Period: ? Satellite period: 0.017029 days Type: AM. Herculi (?) Position (2000): RA 13 48 55.22, Dec +07 57 35.8 CR Bootis is an enigmatic blue variable star with rapid photmetric variations and a spec...
This is how to Report what you saw: 01) Your Town/region/Country? 02) Date and Time? 03) What compass direction did the object appear from? e.g. south 04) What compass direction did the object disappear to? e.g. north 05) How long, in seconds, were you able to see it in the sky? 06) How many degrees off t...
Ergodic theory is a branch of mathematics that studies dynamical systems with an invariant measure and related problems. Its initial development was motivated by problems of statistical physics. A central concern of ergodic theory is the behaviour of a dynamical system when it is allowed to run f...
Tardigrades: Water bears in space In 2007, a little known creature called a tardigrade became the first animal to survive exposure to space. It prevailed over sub-zero temperatures, unrelenting solar winds and an oxygen-deprived space vacuum. On Monday, this microscopic cosmonaut has once aga...
The 420 - 940 metre wide asteroid 2006 JF42 will make a close pass (23.1 lunar distances, 0.0595 AU), travelling at 10.99 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May, 2011 @ 06:05 UT ±00:03.See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Help Name New Species of Deep-Sea Worms Celebrate World Ocean Day by helping Birch Aquarium at Scripps and researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography name two new species of deep-sea marine worms. One name will be selected from the public at large and another will be chosen from a K-12 sch...
More than 100 people gathered May 14 and 15 for a symposium, "Galaxies: not WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)," celebrating Haynes' 60th birthday. If there were a manual for new professors at Cornell, said astronomy department chair Ira Wasserman, Martha Haynes' career would be cit...
Globesaver is a screen saver for windows machines.
The screen saver calculates the Earths day and night regions and presents a
slide show on Astronomy & Meteorites themes.
Pictures can be automatically updated over an internet connection (read readme file included in the zip pa...
Title: ExoplanetSat: Detecting transiting exoplanets using a low-cost CubeSat platform Author: Smith, Matthew William; Seager, Sara; Pong, Christopher Masaru; Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte; Ricker, George R., Jr.; Miller, David W.; Knapp, Mary E.; Farmer, Grant Trapnell; Jensen-Clem, R...
University of Bath's Public Lecture Podcast These podcasts from the University of Bath's public lecture series feature leading names from the worlds of science, humanities and engineering talking about the latest research in their field. The podcasts are downloaded around 250,000 times a year...
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