NASA And Gowalla Launch Partnership With Search For Moon Rocks NASA and Gowalla, a mobile and web service, have partnered to bring users one small step closer to the universe. The partnership populates Gowalla with NASA-related information and four virtual items -- moon rocks, a NASA patch, a spac...
Title: SPT-CL J0546-5345: A Massive z > 1 Galaxy Cluster Selected Via the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect with the South Pole Telescope
Authors: M. Brodwin, J. Ruel, P. A. R. Ade, K. A. Aird, K. Andersson, M. L. N. Ashby, M. Bautz, G. Bazin, B. A. Benson, L. E. Bleem, J. E. Carlstrom, C. L. Chang, T. M. Cra...
Irish astronomer discovers a supernova from his backyard in Dublin Dave Grennan, an amateur astronomer has become the first Irish person to discover a supernova. The Dubliner made the discovery in the galaxy UGC while looking through photographs he had taken from his back garden. [url=http://ww...
A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. Ohio State University researchers suspect that this odd event -- the first one of its kind ever viewed by astronomers - was more common early in the universe. It also hints at what we w...
A small asteroid will fly past Earth early Tuesday within the Earth-moon system. The asteroid, 2010 TD54, will have its closest approach to Earth's surface at an altitude of about 45,000 kilometres at 6:50 EDT a.m. (3:50 a.m. PDT). At that time, the asteroid will be over southeastern Asia in the vici...
A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 21:47:46 (UTC) on Monday, December 12, 2005, in the Hindu Kush Region, Afghanistan, 95-km NW of Chitral, Pakistan, at a depth of 228.2 km
Location 36.339°N, 71.105°E
"The deeper an earthquake is the less likely it is to cause damag...
A magnitude 12.8 Type Ia supernova, 2010ih, was discovered by The CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) on the 16th September, 2010, in the galaxy NGC 2325 in the constellation Canis Major 'the Great Dog'. The supernova is located 42.5" East and 265" North from the center of the gal...
The Alaska Volcano Observatory has issued a red alert for planes flying near the Kasatochi volcano in the Aleutian islands after it erupted explosively on the 7th August sending an ash plume more than 35,000 feet into the air, and forcing two biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to evac...
DLR launches 'STERN' rocket programme for students On Tuesday, 5 October 2010, the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) launched a support programme for students to develop, build and launch their own rockets. The programme goes by the acronym STERN from the Ge...
Australia-based uranium and other precious metal miner, Impact Minerals Ltd has recently announced that the Yarrabubba project for nickel mining has identified seven priority targets in Western Australia. The Yarrabubba Project covers a large (>50 km) diameter meteorite impact structur...
The mysterious rock that almost conked township resident Salvadore D'Addario on the head a year ago is still that: a mystery. Experts from the planetariums at Ocean County College, here, and Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg said Wednesday it most definitely is not a meteorite. [url...
The government is sending a team of scientists to investigate a suspected meteorite that struck a home in Karanganyar, Central Java, early on Monday. The blast was reported to have damaged the roof, kitchen and dining room in the home of Suryono in Ngringo village, but no injuries were reported. [ur...
