Apollo 9 was the first manned flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) along with the Lunar Module (LM). After launching on March 3, 1969, the crew spent ten days in low Earth orbit. Read more
Bruce Winstein, an experimental physicist who studied the afterglow of the universe's birth, died Feb. 28 after a four-year battle with cancer. He was 67. Winstein, the Samuel K. Allison Distinguished Service Professor in Physics, the Enrico Fermi Institute and the College, was known as a puncti...
40-year-old telescope in Lake Ozark reported stolen An old, silver telescope is missing from its place of honour on the Strip, and now law enforcement officials are asking anyone with information on its whereabouts to please step forward. The telescope was located at Casino Pier, on the north end o...
Rory Cellan-Jones tries out Apple's follow-up to the iPad tablet at its launch event The company said the machine featured a faster processor, improved graphics, and front and rear cameras. Apple has led the industry in sales of tablet devices since the launch of the first iPad in April 2010. Howeve...
New Day Dawns for Satellite to Study Earth's Ozone Layer After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS (SAGE III-ISS) will measure ozone, water v...
Orbital elements: 2011 EK Earth MOID = 0.0528 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 171.12064 (2000.0) P Q n 1.15844583 Peri. 178.32068 +0.89662075 +0.43847140 a 0.8978812 Node 155.37925 -0.40796892 +0.87223946 e 0.1618345 Incl. 8.52493 -0.17214121 +0.21665910 P 0.85 H 22.2 G 0.15 U 9 MPE...
Orbital elements: 2011 EJ Earth MOID = 0.0069 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 13.31571 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35904452 Peri. 300.48979 +0.11577269 -0.98217970 a 1.9605166 Node 141.96385 +0.97365485 +0.08273769 e 0.5945226 Incl. 13.90331 +0.19645082 +0.16875284 P 2.75 H 22.6 G 0.15 U 8 MPE...
Local Scientist Discover New Species Living in Your Water A team of biologists has discovered an entirely new group of algae living in a variety of marine and freshwater environments. This group of algae, which the researchers dubbed "rappemonads," have DNA that is distinctly differe...
Title: Methane in the atmosphere of the transiting hot Neptune GJ436b? Authors: J.-P. Beaulieu, G. Tinetti, D. M. Kipping, I. Ribas, R. J. Barber, J. Y-K. Cho, I. Polichtchouk, J. Tennyson, S. N. Yurchenko, C. A. Griffith, V. Batista, I. Waldmann, S. Miller, S. Carey, O. Mousis, S. J. Fossey, A. Aylw...
"The Biggest, Brightest, and Best ... Stars" by R. Humphreys Florida Tech Astronomy & Astrophysics Public Lecture Series "The Biggest, The Brightest, and The Best ... Stars" Roberta Humphreys, PhD Universit...
Telescopes from the four corners of the earth have been successfully linked up to create a real-time virtual telescope, enabling astronomers from the EU-funded Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service (EXPReS) project to simultaneously observe galaxies in the distant universe. The virtu...
Press conference on EGNOS and Galileo Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency, is to meet Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, responsible for Industry and Entrepreneurship, in Paris on Friday 4 March. They will cover various subjects relati...
Celebrating its 25th edition at the Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands, 21-24 March 2011, hosted by Shell. Read more TV astronomer Brian Cox OBE to star at Gastech 2011 One of Europe's leading champions of science, Professor Brian Cox OBE, will deliver an ins...
