The oldest temple of the Sun has been discovered in northwest Bulgaria, near the town of Vratsa, aged at more then 8000 years, the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) reported on December 15 2010. The Bulgarian 'Stonehenge' is hence about 3000 years older than its illustrious English counterpart...
Title: ETHOS 1: A high latitude planetary nebula with jets forged by a post common envelope binary central star Authors: B. Miszalski, R. L. M. Corradi, H. M. J. Boffin, D. Jones, L. Sabin, M. Santander-García, P. Rodríguez-Gil, M. M. Rubio-Díez We report on the discovery of ETHOS 1 (PN G068.1+11.0)...
Title: The Curious Case of Palomar 13: The Influence of the Orbital Phase on the Appearance of Galactic Satellites Authors: A.H.W. Kuepper (1,2), S. Mieske (2), P. Kroupa (1) ((1) AIfA Bonn, (2) ESO Chile) We investigate the dynamical status of the low-mass globular cluster Palomar 13 by means of N-...
The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2010 UX7 will make a close pass (58.5 lunar distances, 0.1504 AU), travelling at 6.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th December, 2010 @ 05:23 UT ±2 minutes. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
Orbital elements: 2009 UG89 Epoch 2009 Oct. 16.0 TT = JDT 2455120.5 MPC M 359.38157 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00154198 Peri. 51.58611 +0.15697828 -0.86637829 a 74.2022020 Node 320.93041 -0.96151084 -0.02446229 e 0.9414279 Incl. 131.22009 +0.22550992 +0.49878878 P 639 H 12.6 G 0.15 From 37 observations 2...
A SL-6 rocket body that was launched by a Molniya-M carrier rocket on the 30th September, 2010, from the Plesetsk launch site for the Kosmos 2469 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 30th November, 2010 @ -- GMT ± -- hours. TLE Data pre>SL-6 RB 1 37172U 10049C 10322.66730956 ....
60 Years of Science on TV Poor old science. Despite being responsible for the greatest invention known to man, the television, selling science to a TV audience is not as easy as it should be. The sad truth is that someone has to be able to stop channels being changed once the "s-word" is menti...
UNH-led Experiment Hurtled into Aurora Above Norway by NASA Rocket A team of scientists led by Marc Lessard of the University of New Hampshire Space Science Centre launched an instrument-laden, four-stage sounding rocket from Norway's Andøya Rocket Range into aurora about 200 miles above Earth...
Title: A detailed spectroscopic analysis of the open cluster NGC 5460 Authors: L. Fossati, C.P. Folsom, S. Bagnulo, J.H. Grunhut, O. Kochukhov, J.D. Landstreet, C. Paladini, G.A. Wade Within the context of a large project aimed at studying early F-, A- and late B-type stars we present the abundanc...
Title: 4C 02.27: what is inside a double-double radio quasar? Authors: S. Frey (FOMI SGO), Z. Paragi (JIVE) Recently Jamrozy et al. (2009) identified 4C 02.27 (J0935+0204) as the first possible example of a double-double radio source which is optically identified with a quasar (i.e. not a galaxy)...
Title: WASP-41b: A transiting hot Jupiter planet orbiting a magnetically-active G8V star Authors: P. F. L. Maxted (1), D. R. Anderson (1), A. Collier Cameron (2), C. Hellier (1), D. Queloz (3), B. Smalley (1), R. A. Street (4), A. H. M. J. Triaud (3), R. G. West (5), M. Gillon (6), T. A. Lister (4), F. Pep...
Saturn's moon Titan shows an unusual bright spot that has scientists puzzling over what it might be.
The recently discovered 483-kilometer-wide region may be a "hot” (infrared-bright) spot on Titan is the type of enigmatic feature that is best investigated by putting together as many differ...
