Several Polk County viewers called FOX 13 yesterday evening to report something in the sky. The callers believed the object may have been a meteor or other object entering Earth's atmosphere. Photos sent by one viewer showed the bright object with some sort of vapor or smoke trail behind it. They wer...
The magnitude 16.4 asteroid (1736) Floirac occulted the magnitude 6.0 star HIP 107302 in the constellation Capricornus at 3:33.3 UT, 26th November, 2010. The 1.3 second event was visible from the US and Mexico. Position (2000: RA 21 44 00.9471 Dec -14 44 57.630
Discovery at Young Star Hints Magnetism Common to All Cosmic Jets Astronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young star, a discovery that points toward future breakthroughs in understanding the nature of all types of cosmic jets and of the role of...
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS). The men will complete a five-month tour of duty aboard the laboratory, joining three crew members already on board. The capsule lifted off from the Baiko...
Archaeological investigations at the salt mine of Duzdagi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan) Dr Catherine Marro (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France), Dr Veli Bakhshaliyev (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Naxçvan, Azerbaijan) The mine of Duzdagi is a major salt dome locate...
Two new Earth observation missions chosen for further study As part of the procedure to realise ESA's series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be the eighth Earth Explorer both address ke...
China successfully launched a communications satellite, "Zhongxing-20A", at 12:09 a.m. Thursday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. "Zhongxing-20A" would help improve the country's radio and television broadcasts, said...
Title: The first confirmed superoutburst of the SU UMa type dwarf nova SDSS J083931.35+282824.0 Authors: Jeremy Shears, Enrique de Miguel, George Roberts, Donald F. Collins, Gordon Myers, Tut Campbell We report unfiltered CCD photometry of the first confirmed superoutburst of the recently di...
These days, grand technologies like telescopes have given astronomers and physicists the ability to observe interstellar objects from amazing distances with ease. Soon enough, the scientists of Memorial University's Grenfell campus in Corner Brook will be handed their own telescope to study...
CSIRO to shed research roles Up to 40 science jobs will be slashed in the ACT and Brisbane to meet funding cuts to CSIRO environmental science programs and the Tidbinbilla Deep Space tracking station. The CSIROs new ecosystem sciences division has been forced to shed 30 jobs to absorb a 10 per cent bud...
Gamma Andromedae (Gamma And, And, Andromedae) is the third brightest star in the constellation of Andromeda. It is also known by the traditional name Almach (also spelt as Almaach, Almaack, Almak, Almaak, or Alamak), from the Arabic "the caracal" (desert lynx). In 1778, Johann Tobias...
Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting two massive islands of galaxies. The research was conducted in part with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. These "sandbars," or filaments, are known...
People have always had a fascination for the objects seen in the heavens. Before recorded history, humans already knew about the motion of the sun and moon, how the fixed stars rotate around the North Star and that a select few stars moved relative to the fixed stars, staying close to the same path the s...
New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that galaxies prefer to raise stars in cosmic suburbia rather than in "big cities." Galaxies across the universe reside in cosmic communities, big and small. Large, densely populated galactic communities are called gala...
Title: Discovery of a T dwarf + white dwarf binary system Authors: A.C. Day-Jones, D.J. Pinfield, M.T. Ruiz, H. Beaumont, B. Burningham, J. Gallardo, A. Gianninas, P. Bergeron, R. Napiwotzki, J.S. Jenkins, Z.H. Zhang, D. Murray, S. Catalan, J. Gomes We present the discovery of the first T dwarf + wh...
