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Title: CFBDSIR J1458+1013B: A Very Cold (>T10) Brown Dwarf in a Binary System Authors: Michael C. Liu, Philippe Delorme, Trent J. Dupuy, Brendan P. Bowler, Loic Albert, Etienne Artigau, Celine Reyle, Thierry Forveille, Xavier Delfosse We have identified CFBDSIR J1458+10 as a 0.11" bin...

The Bombay Explosion (or Bombay Docks Explosion) occurred on 14 April 1944, in the Victoria Dock of Bombay (now Mumbai) when the SS Fort Stikine carrying a mixed cargo of cotton bales, gold, ammunition including around 1,400 tons of explosive caught fire and was destroyed in two giant blasts, scatt...

A new sunspot 11191 has emerged over the Suns eastern limb. Expand (144kb, 560 x 560) Credit: SOHO/MDI

J144547-5931 and J144701-5919: Hunting for the Milky Way's Heaviest Stars Credit X-ray: NASA/U. of Sydney/G.Anderson et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech Like looking for Easter eggs in a lawn of long grass, the hunt for the Milky Way's most massive stars takes persistence and sharp eyes. In their st...

Orbital elements: 2003 GR Earth MOID = 0.2079 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 235.38560 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60488101 Peri. 273.08813 +0.25263277 +0.92032882 a 1.3847012 Node 21.15585 -0.13335181 +0.33880072 e 0.3177253 Incl. 55.83325 -0.95832874 +0.19547106 P 1.63 H 20.6 G 0....

Orbital elements: 2004 VV130 Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 348.68015 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00394628 Peri. 28.34008 +0.29219982 -0.91023839 a 39.6592128 Node 46.42748 +0.78306124 +0.05158955 e 0.1919572 Incl. 23.88935 +0.54903039 +0.41085835 P 250 H 7.3 G 0.15 U 2 MPEC 2011 - G80

Cosmonaut's Daughter Denounces Musical As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin becoming the first man in space, the cosmonaut's daughter Yelena has denounced a St. Petersburg musical production that uses her father's name as its title. "Gagarin" premiered at t...

Orbital elements: 2011 GD62 Earth MOID = 0.1134 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 321.13918 (2000.0) P Q n 0.16860513 Peri. 63.86957 +0.65188320 +0.73923662 a 3.2450560 Node 247.87787 -0.74448173 +0.58149016 e 0.6907396 Incl. 10.51440 -0.14420561 +0.33970341 P 5.85 H 17.2 G...

Orbital elements: 2011 GC62 Earth MOID = 0.0227 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 193.77334 (2000.0) P Q n 1.03113371 Peri. 118.65330 +0.76078456 +0.63694165 a 0.9703447 Node 202.52049 -0.64831340 +0.75470296 e 0.1916691 Incl. 18.97641 +0.02994313 +0.15725390 P 0.96 H 23.4...

Stellar nursery's stunning loops An image from the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 2.2m telescope in Chile has yielded a striking view of the NGC 3582 nebula. Vast loops of gas can be seen in the image, looking like the ejecta of stars known as solar prominences. Here, the gas comes from dying s...

Orbital elements: 2011 GA62 Earth MOID = 0.1442 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 316.88907 (2000.0) P Q n 0.26556606 Peri. 12.57965 +0.11985685 +0.97699434 a 2.3971084 Node 264.50226 -0.92553231 +0.04567325 e 0.5171368 Incl. 10.20750 -0.35919949 +0.20831711 P 3.71 H 18.9 G...

Two new sunspots have emerged on the sun. Sunspots 10987 and 10988 may generate B- and C-class solar flares. Expand (121kb, 560 x 560) Credit SOHO [url=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2225...

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Westar 1 was America's first domestic and commercially-launched geostationary communications satellite, launched by Western Union and NASA on April 13, 1974. It was built by Hughes for Western Union, using the HS-333 platform of spin-stabilised satellites. Read more

Asteroid (9965) GNU makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.091 AU) on the 13th April, 2011. Asteroid (9965) GNU is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.76 years. Discovered on March 5, 1992 by Spacewatch, it was given the provisional designation "1992 EF2". [ur...