The 58 - 130 metre wide asteroid 2010 VB1 will make a close pass (66.1 lunar distances, 0.1699 AU), travelling at 6.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th April, 2011 @ 21:24 UT ±00:13. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics. Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a P...
Comet C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) is a long-period comet discovered by A. E. Thatcher. It is responsible for the Lyrids meteor shower. Carl Wilhelm Baeker also independently found this comet. Read more
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is an eleemosynary corporation established by Charter dated 9 April 1511. Read more
Edinburgh Science Festival 2011 runs from 9-22 April. Situated between Teviot Row House and George Square, the School presents a wide variety of events dealing with the science and technology of transferring information. Read more
NASA telescopes say meteor fell to Earth in Tennessee Wednesday night Woodbury, Tennessee - NASA scientists say this town was the last recorded spot of a meteor that streaked across the Tennessee sky Wednesday night (08:21:57 pm CDT, 6th April, 2011) and fell to earth near the Kentucky border. The m...
WISE Eyes Evolution of Massive Stars In the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, opposite the galactic centre, lies the nebula SH 2-235. As seen in visible light, SH 2-235 appears to be a small amber-coloured dust cloud that spans about a tenth the size of the full Moon. In infrared light, NASAs W...
Title: Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing Authors: B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, B. Allen, D. Anderson, C. Aulbert, N. D. R. Bhat, O. Bock, S. Bogdanov, A. Brazier, F. Camilo, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes, F. Crawford, J. S. Deneva, G. Desvignes, H. Feh...
TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit The new Interorbital's TubeSat Personal Satellite (PS) Kit is the low-cost alternative to the CubeSat. It has three-quarters of the mass (0.75-kg) and volume of a CubeSat, but still offers plenty of room for most experiments or functions. And, best of all, the pric...
The Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Centre in Hutchinson will open a gallery dedicated to unmanned space exploration. The gallery will open Saturday with a speech by Todd Barber, a Wichita native who is a propulsion engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. [url=http://www.th...
Title: The new carbon symbiotic star IPHAS J205836.43+503307.2 Authors: R.L.M. Corradi, L. Sabin, U. Munari, G. Cetrulo, A. Englaro, R. Angeloni, R. Greimel, A. Mampaso We are performing a search for symbiotic stars using IPHAS, the INT Halpha survey of the northern Galactic plane, and follow-u...
Title: The cataclysmic variable SDSS J1507+52: An eclipsing period bouncer in the Galactic halo Authors: Helena Uthas, Christian Knigge, Knox S. Long, Joseph Patterson, John Thorstensen SDSS J1507+52 is an eclipsing cataclysmic variable consisting of a cool, non-radially pulsating white dw...
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the chief exponent of the theory that planets like earth have been seeded for life by comets has been dismissed from his post at the Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom. The university informed the Sri Lanka born British scientist that they are withdrawi...
Title: Self-Breaking Technicolour Authors: Stephen P. Martin (20 Nov 1992) We propose a scenario in which the electroweak symmetry is spontaneously broken by an SU(4) technicolour gauge interaction which also manages to break itself completely. The technicolour gauge bosons and technifermi...
