Comet expert to speak at Vanderbilt University March 25 David Jewitt is investigating recently recorded asteroid collision David Jewitt, professor, astronomer and comet expert will give a free, public talk at Vanderbilt University about "Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System&q...
Title: H\alpha kinematics of KPG 390 Authors: P. Repetto, M. Rosado, R. Gabbasov I. Fuentes-Carrera In this work we present scanning Fabry-Perot H\alpha observations of the isolated interacting galaxy pair NGC 5278/79 obtained with the PUMA Fabry-Perot interferometer. We derived velocity fi...
It has been revealed that Peter Crouch, the English international football player, is an avid stargazer. He got interested in astronomy through watching the television program 'The Sky at Night' hosted by Patrick Moore.
A Putnam County couple got a startling surprise when they found a piece of depleted uranium at the bottom of a box of tools.
Susan and Lance Greninger called NASA because they had bought the box at an auction near the Kennedy Space Center. A Hazmat team from the fire department examined the metal an...
Orbital elements: 2009 UE2 Earth MOID = 0.1872 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 276.54948 (2000.0) P Q n 1.01953018 Peri. 194.50696 -0.99624506 +0.06035912 a 0.9776933 Node 348.40757 -0.00486389 -0.75479949 e 0.5646067 Incl. 17.99176 -0.08644148 -0.65317265 P 0.97 H 19.4 G 0.15 U 9 [...
Feb 24, 2010 A suspected plane crash near Martin's Valley in Penetanguishene on Saturday night turned out merely to be one of Mother Nature's coolest visual effects. A resident called 911 around 6:30 p.m. reporting a possible plane crash, prompting the Penetanguishene Fire Department, Souther...
Bigelow Aerospace is to go ahead with the construction of their most ambitious spacecraft yet, the Sundancer. The successful deployment of the Genesis 1 and 2 inflatable space modules, and rising global launch costs have forced a rethink of their launch strategy. [url=http://www.bigelowae...
Astronomers discover star that's almost as old as the universe itselfAstronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe - a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang. Located in the dwarf galaxy Sculptor some 290,000 light-years away, the star h...
Title: The Nuclear Stellar Disk in Andromeda: A Fossil from the Era of Black Hole Growth Authors: Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert (Berkeley) The physics of angular momentum transport from galactic scales (~10-100 pc) to much smaller radii is one of the oustanding problems in our understanding o...
An eruption at Volcan Arenal, a volcano in north-central Costa Rica, caused small fires and avalanches on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. According to the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) the volcanos emitted a stream of lava on its southern flank, causing...
Mount Toondina crater is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in northern South Australia 45 km south of the township of Oodnadatta. Read more Expand (108kb, 800 x 600)L...
The latest Hubble image showcases ESO 306-17, a large elliptical galaxy that belongs to one such "fossil group" (the term astronomers use to refer to loner galaxies). The name arises because scientists aren't sure if these galaxies really are fossils and represent the remnants of a onc...
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