When diggers moved on to a 10.5-hectare valley near the source of the River Avon on Monday (June 28 2010), they were entering uncharted territory. Marden Henge may lie in a Neolithic Nirvana, with Stonehenge to the south and Avebury to the north, but this huge field - decimated by years of ploughing an...
Long before New York City was the Big Apple, or even New Amsterdam, a giant tsunami crashed ashore. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades that frame the Hudson River were whisper-quiet, the sandy beaches of Long Island and New Jersey empty, and Manhattan was still just an unbroken sylvan carpet. Then...
Title: The Structure and Evolution of Quasi-stars Authors: Warrick H. Ball (1), Christopher A. Tout (1), Anna N. Zytkow (1), John J. Eldridge (1) ((1) Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) The existence of bright quasars at high redshifts implies that supermassive black holes were ab...
Closed astrobiology centre to be reborn as private company. The Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom is being closed by Cardiff University for what the university calls "budgetary and strategic reasons". Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of the centre, has said tha...
Clydeside Blitz. It was a clear, spring night in Glasgow on Thursday, March 13, 1941, the sky illuminated by a full "bombers' moon". Locals could hear the pulsating drone of the Luftwaffe bombers as they approached and the ack-ack of the anti-aircraft guns in nearby Drumchapel. [url=ht...
Asteroid (3554) Amun (2011 February, H = 15.9) The period of this 2.5 km wide asteroid is 2.53 hours. DATE RA(2000) DC(2000) E.D. S.D. Mag a 02/01 14 17.73 +19 21.7 0.459 1.186 16.46 53.6 02/11 14 09.66 +17 49.6 0.399 1.209 16.04 47.9 02/21 13 50.26 +15 57.3 0.340...
Dr. Victor Manuel Blanco Ph.D., (1918-March 8, 2011), was a Puerto Rican astronomer who in 1959 discovered "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster. Blanco was the second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which had the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphe...
NASA Picks a Festive Clover of Ireland Images March 17 marks St. Patrick's Day - a day when shamrocks, Ireland and "wearing of the green" are especially en vogue. To celebrate this festive occasion, NASA's Aqua satellite has picked a clover of different views of the Emerald Isle, Ireland...
Title: Asterosesimology of the Delta Scuti Star V650 Tauri Authors: L. Fox-Machado, R. Michel, M. Alvarez, J.N. Fu, C. Zurita The preliminary results of a multisite photometric campaign on the Pleiades Delta Scuti variable V650 Tauri are reported. The star was observed photometrically for 14 da...
New dinosaur species discovered in Angola Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that its a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war. A paper published Wednesday in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy...
The Maeatae were a confederation of tribes who lived probably beyond the Antonine Wall in Roman Britain. The historical sources are vague as to the exact region they inhabited. Near the summit of Dumyat hill in the Ochils, overlooking Stirling, there are remains of a fort and the name of the hill is be...
Let me take you back to 1960. It is three years after the launch of Sputnik 1 and Manoug Manougian is a young mathematics and physics lecturer at Haigazian College in Beirut, Lebanon, with a fascination for rocketry. At a time when the global focus was on space exploration, 25-year-old Manougian deci...
Orbital elements: 2011 EW74 Earth MOID = 0.0254 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 347.95468 (2000.0) P Q n 0.60554596 Peri. 154.88996 -0.91923043 -0.39364878 a 1.3836874 Node 1.97476 +0.31451041 -0.74560430 e 0.2755269 Incl. 12.54896 +0.23685148 -0.53769403 P 1.63 H 23.1 G 0.15 U 7 MP...
The Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth in the on the 16th March, 2011. The spacecraft will return the crew of Expedition 26, commander Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, who were launched to the to the International Space Station on the 7th October, 2010. Soyuz...
Over the next 6 months, our cafe science programmes offer a chance to meet 25 top social and natural scientists, engineers, clinicians and medical consultants. CURRENT SERIES RUNNING: Cafe Scientifique Aberdeen CITY; Cafe Scientifique AberdeenSHIRE, CafeMED and our new series CafeCOSMOS. No...
