NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter. But their centers are not hot or dense enough to generate energy through nuclear fusion the way stars do. Curiously, scientists ha...
GeoEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEOY) , a leading producer of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information, today announced it has contracted with ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) to begin work on the camera for GeoEye's next satellite, GeoEye-2. This is the first step in a phased development proces...
Title: Zooming in on a sleeping giant: milliarcsecond HSA imaging of the black hole binary V404 Cyg in quiescence Authors: J.C.A. Miller-Jones (1), E. Gallo (2), M.P. Rupen (1), A.J. Mioduszewski (1), W. Brisken (1), R.P. Fender (3,4), P.G. Jonker (5,6,7), T.J. Maccarone (3) ((1) NRAO, (2) UCSB, (...
Boat made from totora reeds to cross Pacific Ocean Cranes place 'Viracocha III', a boat made only from totora reeds, on a trailer truck during preparations for the boat to cross the Pacific Ocean, from Chile to Australia on an expected six-month journey, in La Paz, Bolivia, November 8, 2016. Read mor...
Starving Black Hole Returns Brilliant Galaxy to the Shadows The mystery of a rare change in the behaviour of a supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy has been solved by an international team of astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope along with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Teles...
The 1940 Vrancea earthquake, also known as the 1940 Bucharest earthquake, (Romanian: Cutremurul din 1940) occurred on Sunday, November 10, 1940 in Romania at 03:39 AM local time. The 1940 earthquake registered a magnitude of 7.4 or 7.7 on the Richter scale. Its epicenter lied in Vrancea zone at a de...
1824 The entire skeleton of a large mammoth was recently discovered near London, at Ilford, in the county of Essex, near Stratford and Bow. It lay buried at a depth of about sixteen feet, in a large quarry of diluvial loam and clay which is excavated for making bricks. Mr John Gibson, of Stratford, dili...
Title: Lithium Abundances of the Super-Metal-Rich Open Cluster NGC 6253 Authors: Jeffrey D. Cummings, Constantine P. Deliyannis, Barbara Anthony-Twarog, Bruce Twarog, Ryan M. Maderak High-resolution CTIO 4-m/HYDRA spectroscopy of the super-metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253 ([Fe/H]=+0.4...
Esa selects Ariane 6 basic design The basic design for Europe's next generation rocket, the Ariane 6, has been selected. It will be powered by two solid-fuelled lower stages and incorporate the liquid-fuelled upper-stage currently being developed as an upgrade for the existing Ariane 5 vehicle....
New Wide Field Near-Infrared Imager for ESO's Very Large Telescope Europe's flagship ground-based astronomical facility, the ESO VLT, has been equipped with a new 'eye' to study the Universe. Working in the near-infrared, the new instrument - dubbed HAWK-I - covers about 1/10th the area of the Fu...
Student rockets launched from Esrange Space Center The STERN (STudentische Experimental-RaketeN) rocket HEROS 3, was successfully launched from Esrange Space Center, on Tuesday 8 November, at 0930 UTC. Read more
Shanghai Planetarium, world's largest, to build Shanghai Planetarium (a branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum) broke ground on Tuesday morning at Lingang New City in Pudong New Area and will open to the public in 2020, according to eastday.com. Read more
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