Enormous religious site in French countryside may have been devoted to worshipping many gods Excavations near the antique city of Vindunum (now Le Mans) have revealed a vast religious site dating from the first to the third centuries AD with remarkably well-preserved offerings. Sometimes archa...
In a small room on the outskirts of Dubai at the Emirates Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), a large television screen shows a countdown in seconds. Other screens show an array of maps, sensor readings and other mathematical data. This is mission control for DubaiSat-1. The sat...
Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly Modern Astronomers are a bit like archaeologists as they dig back through space and time searching for remnants of the early universe. In a recent deep excavation, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have unearthed what may be the m...
Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley (18 May 1921 - 16 August 1963) was a Scottish artist. She bought a cottage in Catterline, Kincardineshire, a place which became a subject of many of her works. The sea at Catterline was one of her favourite subjects, especially in stormy weather. [url=http://en.wikip...
An ANDE CASTOR sphere that was launched on the 15th July, 2009 as part of the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment (ANDE) is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 2nd August, 2010. TLE Data pre>ANDE CASTOR SPHERE 1 35694U 09038F 10213.70598264 .00269713 50178-4 19325-3 6077 2 356...
The waters around Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel are home to more species of marine life than any other part of Britain. They were made into the UK's first Marine Conservation Zone at the beginning of 2010, in the hope that the numbers of lobsters and other rare marine life would increase. [url=ht...
For the past couple of years, these mysterious circles of carved stone figures, which villagers in southern Nigeria still worship on occasion, have been causing a frenzy of excitement here. Newspapers have trumpeted the Ikom monoliths - phallic-shaped pieces of volcanic rock largely ignored fo...
The Cryogenian (from Greek cryos "cold" and genesis "birth") is a geologic period that lasted from 850 to 635 million years ago. The Cryogenian forms the second geologic period of the Neoproterozoic Era, preceded by the Tonian Period and followed by the Ediacaran. [url=htt...
A magnitude 16.0 supernova, 2010gz, was discovered by M. Tsuboi (Japan) on the 16th August, 2010, in the galaxy NGC 599 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 39.6" West and 6.7" North from the center of the galaxy.As yet the Type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 01 32 51.07, D...
Title: A new globular cluster black hole in NGC 4472 Authors: Thomas J. Maccarone (University of Southampton), Arunav Kundu (Eureka Scientific), Stephen E. Zepf (Michigan State University), Katherine L. Rhode (Indiana University) We discuss CXOU~1229410+075744, a new black hole candidate i...
10-year-old boy says he discovered a meteorite A family out of Leon Springs had a strange experience Monday night. It was 8:45pm when 10-year-old Benjamin Gardea says he stepped outside his house for a few minutes And suddenly he heard a loud sound like an old lawn mower trying to start. At first Garde...
Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy by UCLA physicists, Japanese colleague Physicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic ray detector. T...
Orbital elements: 2010 PU66 Earth MOID = 0.1449 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 19.16748 (2000.0) P Q n 0.55178882 Peri. 267.29471 -0.20365963 +0.97772994 a 1.4721570 Node 350.48860 -0.73134716 -0.18633451 e 0.3841889 Incl. 17.85480 -0.65088716 -0.09655884 P 1.79 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 9...