Elizabeth Johnson didn't know what she was going to do with herself when she moved to Harrisonburg two years ago to teach geology at JMU. She had just spent years studying volcanic activity in the Northwest, home to volcanoes like Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens. But there were no volcanoes in the Shen...
Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado have nearly finished integrating the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)-sponsored FalconSAT-5 microsatellite, which soon will undergo system testing before being shipped to Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska for launch next year. The $11 millio...
The team consisting of a combination of Indonesian geologists, U.S., and France find a giant volcano under the waters in west of Sumatra. The volcano has diameter 50 km and height of 4600 meters and located 330 km west of Bengkulu. Geologists are derived from the Agency for the Assessment and Applica...
Charlie Bigelow, who was born in 1881 in Niagara, a farming village near Pleasant Mount about a 35 minute drive north of Honesdale- witnessed the meteor roar from the sky. His son James Bigelow, told the writer this story back in the 1970s. The incident happened one night in about 1914. Charlie Bigelo...
Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much infrared light as an entire galaxy. The collision of two spiral galaxies has triggered this explosion, which i...
Gottwald observatory and telescope unveiled The physics department has unveiled the observatory and telescope on the Gottwald Science Centre roof donated by University of Richmond trustee emerita Martha Carpenter. Ted Bunn, a physics professor involved with the telescope installation, sai...
Scientists have found that the type II supernova SN 1979C that exploded in 1979 in the galaxy M100 is as bright today in X-ray light as it was when it was discovered years ago, a surprise finding because such objects usually fade significantly after only a few months.
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton space...
Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) (formerly the Space Division of Dynacon Inc.), Canadas designer and builder of the Multi Mission Microsatellite Bus technology, and innovator of MicroWheel (reaction wheel) attitude control systems, is proud to announce the launch of reactionwheel.com, a...
NASA will hold a televised news conference at 12:30 pm EST, 15th November, 2010, in which they will announce latest discovery by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Astronomers and UFO bloggers alike have been waiting in anticipation for NASA's press conference today on the discovery of 'an exception...
Early risers tracked dazzling meteor across north skies A very bright UFO flashing through the night sky was seen by several people from the Highlands right across to Aberdeen-shire yesterday. Pest controller Edward Cumming was walking his dog at North Kessock on the Black Isle around 5.45am when...
The River Thames is a major river flowing through southern England. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, Kingston Upon Thames and Richmond....
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. WISE is scanning the whole sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of not just brown dwarfs but also asteroids, stars and galaxies. It has sent millions of...
Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems that Might Explode Sometimes when you're looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected. In the scientific endeavor, such serendipity can lead to new discoveries. Today, researchers who found the first hypervelocity s...
