The Izera Dark Sky Park, which straddles the Polish-Czech border, is one of Europe's first "darkness reserves." The project, launched in 2009 in the Izerskie Mountains, aims to highlight the issue of light pollution, which is increasingly being acknowledged as an environmental prob...
Countdown to UK's first conference on health in outer space Space travel experts from around the world will gather at Northumbria University to discuss ways to tackle health issues faced by astronauts during lengthy extra terrestrial missions. The University will host the first UK Space Biomedi...
Dark Matter Awareness Week, 1-8 December 2010 Dark Matter Awareness Week is envisaged as a worldwide effort for disseminating specific information about one of the most pressing problems and elusive aspects of astrophysics, high-energy physics, cosmology and relativity. [url=http://www.s...
The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2-3, 1957 in and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat prairie of the Texas panhandle. The case is considered to be one of the most impressive in UFO history...
India launches scientific expedition to South Pole The head of India's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. The trip to the pole and back is expected to last around 40 d...
The discovery of an extinct underwater volcano 100 nautical miles off South Australia's Far West coast has excited scientists who came across it by chance. Scientists from the South Australian Research and Development Institute and university students were aboard CSIRO marine's RV Southern Su...
A magnitude 15.6 type Ia supernova, 2010jb, was discovered by Stuart Parker (New Zealand) on the 30th October, 2010, in the galaxy IC 1615 in the constellation Phoenix. The supernova is located 6" East and 6" South from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 01 04 07.68, Dec -51°08'...
Baldwin-Wallace College houses a little-known gem: a refractory telescope Harry Smythe waited on the stairway with other visitors Friday night at the Burrell Memorial Observatory Open House. The Olmsted Falls resident has an interest in astronomy and attended the one-hour lecture that prompt...
The 56 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2010 UA7 made a close pass (68.2 lunar distances, 0.1753 AU), travelling at 4.39 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st October, 2010 @ 06:58 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...
The 29 - 66 metre wide asteroid 2010 UC7 will make a close pass (7.4 lunar distances, 0.0191 AU), travelling at 13.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd November, 2010 @ 15:49 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD)...
The 8 - 18 metre wide asteroid 2010 UM7 made a close pass (4.6 lunar distances, 0.0117 AU), travelling at 13.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November, 2010 @ 02:51 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the d...
China will launch its sixth orbiter into space in the "coming days" as part of its plans to set up indigenous satellite-navigation and-positioning network, a top official said Friday. A spokesman for the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan province said the &...
A University of Queensland (UQ) researcher has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred near the Queensland-South Australia border more than 300 million years ago. The asteroid, which produced a shock zone at least 80km wide, could be the second-largest asteroid ever found in Aust...
Australia will become a key partner in the international battle for space supremacy. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is poised to announce the base when he visits Australia next week with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Fairfax newspapers reported on Saturday. It is understood the base is l...
The 21 - 47 metre wide asteroid 2010 UJ7 will make a close pass (0.7 lunar distances, 0.0019 AU), travelling at 9.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd November, 2010 @ 02:58 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD),...
