Speed Demon Creates a Shock Just as some drivers obey the speed limit while others treat every road as if it were the autobahn, some stars move through space faster than others. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captured this image of the star Alpha Camelopardalis, or Alpha Cam in...
Orbital elements: 2011 EV73 Earth MOID = 0.0030 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 353.52775 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52880706 Peri. 155.02923 -0.84837838 -0.52937905 a 1.5145068 Node 353.00426 +0.48081537 -0.76778526 e 0.3536410 Incl. 1.62650 +0.22151910 -0.36092052 P 1.86 H 28.4 G 0.15 U 8 M...
Title: WASP-23b: a transiting hot Jupiter around a K dwarf and its Rossiter-McLaughlin effect Authors: Amaury H.M.J. Triaud, Didier Queloz, Coel Hellier, Michael Gillon, Barry Smalley, Leslie Hebb, Andrew Collier Cameron, David Anderson, Isabelle Boisse, Guillaume Hebrard, Emmanuel Jehin...
CSIRO astronomers said they are stumped by the formation of an "eccentric" fast-spinning star. Scientists at the Australia Telescope National Facility will today publish their findings in the online journal Science Express on the pulsar, which is called J1903+0327. Astronomer Dav...
The bacchanalia were wild and mystic festivals of the Roman god Bacchus (or Dionysus). The bacchanalia were originally held in secret and only attended by women. The festivals occurred in the grove of Simila near the Aventine Hill on March 16 and March 17. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bac...
Orbital elements: 2011 EW73 Earth MOID = 0.0033 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 17.02478 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63938499 Peri. 90.55441 +0.26392311 -0.96448985 a 1.3344258 Node 344.13132 +0.86946064 +0.24246857 e 0.5367642 Incl. 2.13665 +0.41759165 +0.10472979 P 1.54 H 23.6 G 0.15 U 9 MPE...
Sky & Telescope editor-in-chief Robert Naeye speaks with astronomer Laura Brenneman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics about her work on black hole spin
Title: The LISA verification binaries
Authors: A. Stroeer, A. Vecchio
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) guarantees the detection of gravitational waves by monitoring a handful of known nearby galactic binary systems, the so-called "verification binaries...
The cataclysmic variable star KS Ursae Majoris is in outburst. Date: 14th March, 2011 Magnitude range: 12.2 - 16.2 V Period: ? Satellite period: 0.06796 days Type: SU UMa Position(2000): RA=10 20 26.52, Dec+53°04'33.2"
For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre have slowly travelled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Complex 39. These mammoth beasts that first carried all the Apollo Saturn V rockets have sinc...
The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura?, lit. "Under a Wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833 (during the Edo Period) as...
Clearing of sand dunes formed after a major tsunami in the 15th century to build Coastal National Highway in Maharashtra is threatening a village in Ratnagiri district, a noted Geo archaeologist has warned. Known as `tsunami sand', these sand dunes formed around the time of Vasco Da Gama's visit to...
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