Explore Mars, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of our new online quarterly publication, Mars Exploration Magazine (MEM). The premier edition features articles by and interviews with some of the most prominent people in the space community including: Elon Musk, Steve Squyres, Vint Cerf, Pe...
Title: Suzaku X-ray Follow-up Observation of Weak-lensing-detected Halos in the Field around ZwCl0823.2+0425 Authors: Eri Watanabe, Motokazu Takizawa (Yamagata Univ.), Kazuhiro Nakazawa (Univ. of Tokyo), Nobuhiro Okabe (ASIAA/Tohoku Univ.), Madoka Kawaharada (ISAS/JAXA), Arif Babul (...
Title: A parsec-scale outflow from the luminous YSO IRAS 17527-2439 Authors: Watson P. Varricatt Imaging observations of IRAS 17527-2439 are obtained in the near-IR JHK photometric bands and in a narrow-band filter centred at the wavelength of the H_2 1-0 S(1) line. The continuum-subtracted H_...
An Ancient Landslip at Saidmarreh in Southwestern Iran A large landslip occurred in prehistoric times in the Saidmarreh district of Luristan (lat. 33° 0' N.; long. 47° 30' E.). About 5 cubic miles of Lower Miocene limestone and Eocene marly limestone fell off the northern flank of the Kabir Kuh anti...
A new stealth fighter has made its maiden flight in Russia's far east. The Sukhoi T-50 jet spent 47 minutes in the air over Komsomolsk-on-Amur and test pilot Sergei Bogdan said "it is easy and comfortable to pilot". The jet - also known by the Russian designation PAK FA - is seen as a potentia...
A possible magnitude 14.4 variable star was discovered on the 8th January, 2011, in the constellation Orion. As yet the type is unknown. Position(2000): RA = 06 19 59.96, Dec = +19 26 59.0
Shortly after Galaxy Zoo was launched to the general public a primary-school teacher discovered a curious blue object now known as "Hanny's Voorwerp. Read more
Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: XIII. CoRoT-14b: an unusually dense very hot Jupiter Authors: B. Tingley, M. Endl, J.-C. Gazzano, R. Alonso, T. Mazeh, L. Jorda, S. Aigrain, J.-M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J....
The 100 - 220 metre wide asteroid 2007 AA9 will make a close pass (66.6 lunar distances, 0.1710 AU), travelling at 7.86 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January, 2011 @ 21:34 UT ą00:31. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2005 EE will make a close pass (38.8 lunar distances, 0.0998 AU), travelling at 7.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th January, 2011 @ 21:47 UT ą00:02. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Title: Dynamics of false vacuum bubbles in Brans-Dicke theory Authors: Bum-Hoon Lee, Wonwoo Lee, Dong-han Yeom We study the dynamics of false vacuum bubbles in the Brans-Dicke theory of gravity by using the thin shell or thin wall approximation. We consider a false vacuum bubble that has a differe...
Title: An actively accreting massive black hole in the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 Authors: Amy Reines Supermassive black holes are now thought to lie at the heart of every giant galaxy with a spheroidal component, including our own Milky Way. The birth and growth of the first 'seed' black ho...
On 10 January 1946, Signal Corps scientists, using a modified SCR-271 long range radar antenna (the Diana Tower), succeeded in bouncing radar signals off the moon. The experiment demonstrated that very high frequency radio waves could penetrate the ionosphere encircling the earth and evidence...
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