The Very Long Baseline Array, a radio astronomy observatory with employees in Socorro, must find funding outside its current source by 2011 to remain open.
The array's director expects to succeed in that.
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Tropical Cyclone Atu (17P) is forecast to make landfall in Vanuatu probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 100% currently
Physicists working to disprove "Lorentz invariance" -- Einstein's prediction that matter and massless particles will behave the same no matter how they're turned or how fast they go -- won't get that satisfaction from muon neutrinos, at least for the time being, says a consortium of sc...
Title: The Dwarf Nova Outbursts of Nova Her 1960 (=V446 Her) Authors: R.K. Honeycutt, J.W. Robertson, S. Kafka V446 Her is the best example of an old nova which has developed dwarf nova eruptions in the post-nova state. We report on observed properties of the long-term light curve of V446 Her, using p...
Title: Direct Imaging Constraints on the Putative Exoplanet 14 Her c Authors: Timothy J. Rodigas (1), Jared R. Males (1), Philip M. Hinz (1), Eric E. Mamajek (2), Russell P. Knox (1) ((1) Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, (2) University of Rochester Dept. of Physics & Astronomy) We p...
In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see right to the boundaries of the universe. It is also a place where the harsh heat of the sun keeps human r...
The Progress M-07M/39P cargo ship undocked from Zvezda module on the ISS at 08:12 UTC, 20th February 2011, to make way for the Johannes Kepler Automated Transfer Vehicle. After undocking it will be deorbited to a destructive reentry over the spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific Ocean.
On 21 February 1804 the world's first railway journey took place as Richard Trevithick's unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Read more
The Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only parrot species native to the eastern United States. The last wild specimen was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 1904, and the last captive bird died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918. Read more
Orbital elements: 2011 BY59 Earth MOID = 0.3194 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 312.50304 (2000.0) P Q n 0.59034854 Peri. 242.96075 -0.88557556 +0.32821662 a 1.4073336 Node 314.02118 -0.04323205 -0.76277371 e 0.1196287 Incl. 27.19888 -0.46247911 -0.55718050 P 1.67 H 22.5 G 0.15 U 6...
It's just one data point among the 1,235 potential worlds identified by NASA's Kepler planet-hunting probe, but you can't help noticing it on a graph. The planetary candidate known as KOI 326.01 sticks out as the one object that's estimated to be the size of Earth or smaller, with an average temperat...
Everyone here, it seems, has a theory about the Nasca Lines. The mysterious markings on the desert floor are a massive astronomical calendar. That's a popular one. Or maybe they point to hidden reserves of water, the source of life in the desert. Then there's my favourite: UFO landing site. Forty yea...
Rare fossils identified at rock swap The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology hosted a rock swap and rock identification Saturday in its Museum of Geology. Collectors were able to bring in rocks and fossils they had found and have them identified by geologists. They could also bring in a roc...
Adam Riess is a man of science, a professor of astronomy and physics at Johns Hopkins University who has measured the accelerating expansion of the universe. He knows more than most people about Einstein's cosmological constant and Type 1a supernovae. [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-...
