Successful A- Darter missile firings with South African Gripen Saab has successfully carried out an important stage in the A-Darter missile programme with the first test firing verifying the integration between the missile and the Gripen aircraft. The tests were held at the SAAF (South African A...
India will shortly launch Cartosat-2B, a high-resolution remote sensing satellite, that will aid in infrastructure and urban planning, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. The launch was expected by March end or mid-April and the exact date would be fi...
Fox Park Observatory - Summer Viewing Schedule Fox Park Observatory, Potterville Summer Viewing Schedule: July 30 and 31, 9:30PM-11:00PM, View the Moon, on Friday night, Saturn and Mars will be less than 2 degrees apart in the west with Venus. Those who stay late enough may catch a glimpse of Jupite...
Astronomers detect 'monster star' They are among the true monsters of space - colossal stars whose size and brightness go well beyond what many scientists thought was even possible. One of the objects, known simply as R136a1, is the most massive ever found. Viewed today, the star has a mass about 265...
Title: HST and VLT observations of the neutron star 1E 1207.4-5209 Authors: A. De Luca, R.P. Mignani, A. Sartori, W. Hummel, P.A. Caraveo, S. Mereghetti, G.F. Bignami 1E 1207.4-5209, the peculiar Central Compact object in the G296.5+10.0 supernova remnant, has been proposed to be an "anti-...
Title: Heated dust around the LMC Wolf-Rayet system HD 36402 (BAT99-38) Authors: P. M. Williams (Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory Edinburgh) Infrared photometry of the probable triple WC4 (+O?) +O8I: system HD 36402 (BAT99-38) in the LMC shows emission characteristic of heated dust...
Title: Willman 1 in X-rays: Can you tell a dwarf galaxy from a globular cluster? Authors: N. Mirabal, D. Nieto (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) We present an analysis of a deep archival Chandra observation of Willman 1, an object suspected to straddle the line of what constitutes a dwarf galaxy a...
Simon Swordy, astrophysicist and expert on gamma rays, 1954-2010 Simon Swordy, a leading expert on the origins of high-energy particles and gamma rays that bombard the earth from deep space, died Monday at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 56. [url=http://news.uchicago.edu/new...
Archaeologists working on India's south-west coast believe they may have solved the mystery of the location of a major port which was key to trade between India and the Roman Empire - Muziris, in the modern-day state of Kerala.
For many years, people have been in search of the almost myth...
Orbital elements: 2003 WX87 Earth MOID = 0.2120 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 339.62716 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28237130 Peri. 324.38083 +0.43944373 -0.87024751 a 2.3010303 Node 98.60382 +0.86747771 +0.34680808 e 0.4939953 Incl. 13.01176 +0.23317725 +0.34984771 P 3.49 H 18.5 G 0.15 U 2...
A Japanese electronics firm has shown off a vibration-harvesting generator that could replace standard batteries. The Vibration Energy Cell batteries deliver power after a vigorous shake Brother Industries, better known for its line of printers, claims the devices could be used in place of AA o...
ESA’s Integral gamma-ray satellite observatory has discovered a new, highly populated class of X-ray fast ‘transient’ binary stars, undetected in previous observations.
With this discovery, Integral confirms how much the satellite is contributing to revealing a whole hidden Universe....
Inside the global asbestos trade Banned or restricted in more than 50 countries, white asbestos continues to be widely used in China, India, Russia and Brazil, and many developing countries. The BBC's Steve Bradshaw and Jim Morris from the ICIJ report on an industry supported by a global network of...
Vostok Research Station is located about 1,300 km from the Geographic South Pole, at the centre of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet and within the Australian Antarctic Territory. The lowest reliably measured temperature on Earth of -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F) was in Vostok on 21 July 1983. Read more
Mars 4 Launch date/time: Mars 4: July 21, 1973 at 19:30:59 UTCOn-orbit mass: Dry: 2270 kgFully-fuelled: 3440 kg The Mars 4 orbiter reached Mars on February 10, 1974. Due to a flaw in the computer chip which resulted in degradation of the chip during the voyage to Mars, the retro-rockets designed to...
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