What happens when Sandy Antunes, a semi-nonfamous science writer slash IT consultant, wants to go into space? 'Project Calliope' is a satellite being launched by this space & music enthusiast on the "TubeSat" platform. It'll be an ionospheric detector transmitting sonifiabl...
New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. Just download the viewer and begin exploring the Sun. JHelioviewer is new visualisation software that enables everyone to exp...
Title: The tsunami of 13 December A.D. 115 and the destruction of Herod the Great's harbour at Caesarea Maritima, Israel
Authors: Eduard G. Reinhardt, Beverly N. Goodman, Joe I. Boyce, Gloria Lopez, Peter van Hengstum, W. Jack Rink, Yossi Mart, Avner Raban.
Underwater geoa...
Asteroid (732) Tjilaki, 14.4 mag, will occult the star HD 28086, 6.4 mag, at 18:04 UT, 14th December, 2010. Duration: 3.4 seconds. Magnitude drop: 3.0 mag. Visibility: Japan, China, SW Asia, Arabia, N Africa Position(2000): RA 04 26 01.3485, +04 22 24.423
Title: Finding a 24-day orbital period for the X-ray binary 1A 1118-616 Authors: R. Staubert, K. Pottschmidt, V. Doroshenko, J. Wilms, S. Suchy, R. Rothschild, A. Santangelo We report the first determination of the binary period and orbital ephemeris of the Be X-ray binary containing the pulsar 1...
Title: An extremely peculiar hot subdwarf with a ten-thousand-fold excess of zirconium, yttrium, and strontium Authors: Naslim N., C.S. Jeffery, N.T. Behara, A. Hibbert Helium-rich subdwarf B (He-sdB) stars represent a small group of low-mass hot stars with luminosities greater than those of...
Title: Discovery of an Energetic 38.5 ms Pulsar Powering the Gamma-ray Source IGR J18490-0000/HESS J1849-000 Authors: E. V. Gotthelf (1), J. P. Halpern (1), R. Terrier (2), F. Mattana (2), ((1) Columbia University, (2) APC/CNRS University Paris 7) We report the discovery of a 38.5 ms X-ray pulsar...
Space sensor makes bolts smarter Technology developed for the International Space Station and a Mars rover is helping European auto-parts manufacturers to engineer lighter, stronger and safer drivetrains and axles. Bolts are the manufacturing world's unsung heroes. If two parts aren't welde...
Title: The WASP-South search for transiting exoplanets Authors: Hellier, Coel; Anderson, D. R.; Collier Cameron, A.; Gillon, M.; Lendl, M.; Lister, T. A.; Maxted, P. F. L.; Pollacco, D.; Queloz, D.; Smalley, B.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; West, R. G. Since 2006 WASP-South has been scanning the Southern s...
Title: A candidate polar-ring galaxy in the Subaru Deep Field Authors: Ido Finkelman, Or Graur, Noah Brosch We discuss the properties of an object in the Subaru Deep Field (SDF) classified as a galaxy in on-line data bases and revealed on the Subaru images as a genuine polar-ring galaxy (PRG) candid...
Brazil today successfully launched a mid-sized unmanned rocket into space, with hundreds of kilograms in cargo and experiments in tow, space officials here said. Scientists from the Agencia Espacial Brasilena (AEB) said the VSB-3 rocket took off from the Alcantara Launch Centre in northeast Br...
Title: WASP-34b: a near-grazing transiting sub-Jupiter-mass exoplanet in a hierarchical triple system Authors: B. Smalley (Keele University), D.R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, P.F.L. Maxted, D. Queloz, A.H.M.J. Triaud, R.G. West, S.J. Bentley, B. Enoch, M. Gillon, T....
Title: XMM-Newton Observations Reveal Very High X-ray Luminosity from the Carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet Star WR 48a Authors: Svetozar A. Zhekov, Marc Gagne, Stephen L. Skinner We present XMM-Newton observations of the dusty Wolf-Rayet star WR 48a. This is the first detection of this object in X-rays....
