Title: The Centurion 18 telescope of the Wise Observatory Authors: Noah Brosch, David Polishook, Avi Shporer, Shai Kaspi, Assaf Berwald, Ilan Manulis We describe the second telescope of the Wise Observatory, a 0.46-m Centurion 18 (C18) installed in 2005, which enhances significantly the obser...
Breathless, on-the-run visits to the Kerala State Science and Technology Museum - which hosts an impressive array of science exhibits - will soon be a thing of the past for school students. Dismayed over the very short, and therefore ineffective, time that students get to spend at the facility, the...
Primary school students are being taught that man and dinosaurs walked the Earth together and that there's fossil evidence to prove it. Fundamentalist Christians are hijacking religious instruction classes despite education experts saying Creationism and attempts to convert children to Chr...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a phenomenon long thought not to exist. They have demonstrated a mechanical fatigue process that eventually leads to cracks and breakdown in bulk silicon crystals. Silicon the backbone of the semiconduct...
Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XIII. CoRoT-13b: a dense hot Jupiter in transit around a star with solar metallicity and super-solar lithium content Authors: J. Cabrera, H. Bruntt, M. Ollivier, R. F. Diaz, Sz. Csizmadia, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, J.-M. Almenara, M. Auver...
The magnitude 14.2 asteroid (2880) Nihondaira will occult the magnitude 6.53 multiple star HD 190306 in the constellation Sagittarius, at 15:06 UT, 2nd August 2010. The 3.6 second event is visible from Australia. Position (2000): RA 20 05 32.0287, Dec -32 59 59.413
Maxima of the long period variable T Draconis on the 2nd August, 2010. Magnitude: 9.6-12.3 Type: Mira Position(2000): RA 17 56 23.3099, Dec +58 13 06.188
Ragbir Bhathal, Australia's Leading Alien Hunter Just about a year ago Ragbir Bhathal was scanning the night sky for alien activity, just as he does every night. Except, on this December eve Ragbir Bhathal found a strong, regular, repeating signal. Unless the whole thing stemmed from a huge glitch...
The TI-Nspire product line is a series of graphing calculators developed by Texas Instruments. This line currently includes the TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CAS. It is available as a handheld and also as software for Windows and Mac OS X. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-Nspire]Read more[/u...
New Mexico Fireball by Thomas Ashcraft (2010.07.31) Captured via all-sky camera near Santa Fe, New Mexico; audio is from a 61 MHz forward-scattering meteor radar.
DARKNESS VISIBLE: Dark Matter in astrophysics and particle physics Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK. August 2-6 2010 The Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, summer conference will focus on Dark Matter, bring together recent progress in astrophysical studies, direct and indirect detect...
First built in the Yuan Dynasty, Dengfeng Observatory is located in Gaocheng Town, Dengfeng City, Henan Province. The front and rear courtyards of the Observatory consist of seven parts including the screen wall, the gate, Flower Gate (chuihuamen), Duke of Zhou's Sundial, the Main Hall, the obse...
Three new sites in South Africa may become United Nations world heritage sites.
They are the Vredefort Dome in the Free State, the Taung Skull fossil site in the North West and the Makapans Valley in Limpopo.
The nominations were unveiled in Johannesburg today by Ar...
Kaalijarv crater
It`s kind of an unwritten rule in Estonia - if you want to see something weird, go to the islands. Chalk it up to geographic isolation or the celebrated beer brewing traditions of some islanders, but it`s on these outlying patches of land that the nation keeps all the assort...
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