October 27, 2005
After 20 years of planning, developing and constructing, astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have finally released the first image captured by the new Large Binocular Telescope, an instrument with a light-gathering power 24 times greater than the Hubble Spa...
Title: HAT-P-4b: A metal-rich low-density transiting hot Jupiter Authors: G. Kovacs (1), G. A. Bakos (2,3), G. Torres (2), A. Sozzetti (2,4), D. W. Latham (2), R. W. Noyes (2), R. P. Butler (5), G. W. Marcy (6), D. A. Fischer (7), J. M. Fernandez (2), G. Esquerdo (2), D. D. Sasselov (2), R. P. Stefanik (2...
Spectrum management in the Mid West Radio-Quiet Zone Commonwealth and Western Australian Government officials met on 2 December 2010 to discuss spectrum management in the Mid West Radio-Quiet Zone. Currently the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is consulting on a Band Pl...
A magnitude 15.4 type Ia supernova, 2010ki, was discovered on the 21st November, 2010, by K. Itagaki (Japan) in the galaxy 2MASX J23160991-0214004 in the constellation Pisces. The supernova is located 4.5" west and 5.3" south from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA = 23 16 09...
A SL-6 rocket body that was launched by a Molniya-M carrier rocket on the 17th September, 1991, from the Plesetsk launch site for the Molniya 3-48L mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th December, 2010 @ 10:54 GMT ± 48 hours. TLE Data pre>SL-6 RB 1 21709U 91065D 10337.42182...
Mystery fireball streaks across the sky A DeKalb County man happened to have a camera rolling when what looks like a fireball floated in the sky overhead last week. Charsign Raymond, of Clarkston, was visiting a friend's apartment just west of downtown Stone Mountain when his friend's wife happene...
GREAT 2010 challenge Cosmologists have come up with a new way to solve their problems. They are inviting scientists, including those from totally unrelated fields, to participate in a grand competition. The idea is to spur outside interest in one of cosmology's trickiest problems -- measuring th...
Title: WASP-30b: a 61 Mjup brown dwarf transiting a V=12, F8 star Authors: D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. M. S. Smith, I. Todd, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West, S. C. C. Barros, B. Enoch, M. Gillon, T. A. Lister, F. Pepe, D. Ségr...
A large cedar tree of historical significance has split in two in Co Meath, in circumstances that have revived local interest in "sacred" trees - and the omens attached to them. The 270-year-old cedar, located on the lands of the Spiritans - otherwise known as the Holy Ghost Fathers - in Ar...
'Alien' planet detected circling dying star Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our galaxy. The Jupiter-like planet, they say, is part of a solar system which once belonged to a dwarf galaxy. This dwarf galaxy was in turn devoured by our own galaxy, the Mi...
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) was a 1965 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 4th manned Gemini flight, the 12th manned American flight and the 20th spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometres). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_7]Read mo...
Title: Is Tharsis Rise, Mars, a spreading volcano? Authors: Andrea Borgia A theoretical similarity derived for spreading volcanoes remains valid for over three orders of magnitude in size, from small slumping volcanoes to large ocean plates. This similarity means that Mount Etna, Sicily, can b...
A second wave of moisture from the Pacific will bring periods of light to moderate rain and blustery winds well into tonight, with wind gusts hitting 30 to 40 mph late today, mostly in the eastern-most foothills of Orange County, says the National Weather Service. We're in the middle of a weekend of of...
The biblical poet who declared "to every thing there is a season" and "a time to every purpose under heaven" didn't have telescopes in mind. But the adage, apparently, applies. It applies to instruments that were high-tech marvels only a few decades ago. It applies even if the...
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