* Astronomy

Europe's biggest supercomputer, based in the northern Netherlands, will crunch data from thousands of radio antennae eavesdropping on the history of the universe. It will form the heart of a new type of radio telescope developed by ASTRON, and gather and analyse information from ASTRON's Low Fre...

Coma Berenices.kmz Google Sky file

An enormous eruption has found its way to Earth after travelling for many thousands of years across space. Studying this blast with ESA's XMM-Newton and Integral space observatories, astronomers have discovered a dead star belonging to a rare group: the magnetars. X-Rays from the giant outburst...

Title: Eight new quasars discovered by LAMOST in one extragalactic field Authors: Xue-Bing Wu, Zhendong Jia, Zhaoyu Chen, Wenwen Zuo, Yongheng Zhao, Ali Luo, Zhongrui Bai, Jianjun Chen, Haotong Zhang, Hongliang Yan, Juanjuan Ren, Shiwei Sun, Hong Wu, Yong Zhang, Yeping Li, Qishuai Lu, You Wang,...

J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form ETC Group Will Challenge Patents on "Synthia" - Original Syn Organism Created in Laboratory Ten years after Dolly the cloned sheep made her stunning debut, the J. Craig Venter Institute is...

Orbital elements: C/2009 U5 (Grauer) T 2010 Aug. 23.034 TT MPC q 0.57126 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 139.324 -0.060019 +0.797257 Node 118.302 -0.996818 -0.079494 e 1.0 Incl. 43.016 +0.052458 -0.598382 From 27 observations 2009 Oct. 23-25. [url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09UA0.html]MPE...

The 830 - 1900 metre wide asteroid 2007 XB10 will make a close pass (27.6 lunar distances, 0.0708 AU), travelling at 25.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th June, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the d...

Orbital elements: 2010 LK61 Earth MOID = 0.0997 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 48.41556 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45243715 Peri. 298.26032 -0.92906022 -0.21565186 a 1.6804691 Node 230.96188 +0.26749592 -0.95286280 e 0.5843051 Incl. 22.76596 -0.25552502 -0.21341686 P 2.18 H 21.6 G 0.15 U 9...

A magnitude 14.7 supernova, 2010eb, was discovered by Berto Monard on the 26th May, 2010, in the spiral galaxy NGC 488 in the constellation Pisces. The supernova is located 134" West and 135" North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 01 21 37.78, Dec +05°17'39".9 CBE...

Kupwara district seismological observatory. "A seismological observatory is under construction near the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdhar border belt of Kupwara district, which saw death and destruction during the October 8, 2005 earthquake" - state government official. [url=ht...

RocketFest at the Observatory Action News Reporter Haley Burton takes us to the Kopernick Observatory where kids are launching their dreams into the sky. These rockets are more than paper mache and tape. You'd never believe they were made by kids. [url=http://www.wbng.com/news/local/9622158...

Fireball in the Sky over Pinar del Rio? People said that on Monday night they saw a striking luminous phenomenon in the sky in parts of the Pinar del Río municipality of Consolacion del Sur. The incident occurred around 22:40 pm when a meteoric object, apparently quite large, entered the atmosphere a...

A major magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred at 15:42:05 (UTC) on Sunday, July 24, 2005 located in the Nicobar Islands, India region, about 135 km West of Misha[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/928...

Ms Melissa Lacey of Knoxville, Tennessee has found a 1.30-carat diamond while gem hunting in Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. "I wasn't expecting to find anything and was just picking up pretty rocks" . At first, she thought the light yellow diamond was "a piece of dirty qua...

Gorely is a volcano located in the southern part of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. It consists of five overlapping stratovolcanoes and is one of the most active in southern Kamchatka. Gorely is a large, long-lived shield-type volcano that is currently in an eruptive phase. Prior eruptions occurr...