An East County Magazine reader asks, "I want to know who else saw the blue and whitish-orange meteor I saw from my house in Deerhorn Valley in Jamul at approximately 8:50 pm on Monday evening, October 11." Read more
Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) today announced that they have contracted for Space Systems/Loral to manufacture the ABS-2 spacecraft which is scheduled for launch in 2013. ABS-2 will be one of the most powerful commercial satellites launched for service in the Ea...
The University of Washington's Regional Scale Nodes or RSN of the NSF OOI will extend continuous high-bandwidth (tens of Gigabits/second) and power (tens of kilowatts) to a network of instruments widely distributed across, above, and below the seafloor in the northeast Pacific Ocean. [url=htt...
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Celebrate Astronomy Day with the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh www.3ap.org , at one of two public star parties held at each of their observatories. North of Pittsburgh, find the Wagman Public Star Party, Wagman Observatory, Deer Lakes Park. South of Pittsburgh find the Mingo Pu...
The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2010 TN55 made a close pass (0.9 lunar distances, 0.0022 AU), travelling at 25.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th October, 2010 @ 01:06 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2010 TE55 will make a close pass (1.0 lunar distances, 0.0024 AU), travelling at 3.40 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2010 @ 01:25 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD)...
By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of...
How to Weigh a Star Using a Moon How do astronomers weigh a star that's trillions of miles away and way too big to fit on a bathroom scale? In most cases they can't, although they can get a best estimate using computer models of stellar structure. New work by astrophysicist David Kipping says that in spec...
Farewell OGLE-TR-113b, it was nice to meet you. The planet, discovered in 2002, is the first found that seems to be spiralling towards its star - and a grisly death. As the Jupiter-sized world orbits its star, we see a temporary dimming in the star's light when the planet passes between it and us. This t...
iPhoning Results in $3,000 Bill It was only going to be a matter of time before something like this happened. Someone decided to take their iPhone on a little jaunt to Europe, where he says he underwent "sporadic AT&T EDGE network usage off and on mixed with wifi when available." The bi...
World's longest tunnel takes shape The world's longest tunnel will take shape deep beneath the Swiss Alps today when a giant drilling machine clears a path for a key high speed railway through the heart of Europe. Read more
Title: GLIMPSE-CO1: the most massive intermediate-age stellar cluster in the Galaxy Authors: Ben Davies (RIT/Leeds), Nate Bastian (Exeter/Cambridge), Mark Gieles (Cambridge), Anil C. Seth (CfA Harvard), Sabine Mengel (ESO), Iraklis S. Konstantopoulos (Penn State) The stellar cluster GLI...