* Astronomy

Thousands of years ago our Neolithic forebears were hunting wild game with flint arrows in the hills overlooking what is now Ballymena. Now theyre still making their presence felt, delaying a road dualling scheme that was aimed at easing congestion between the town and the M2. [url=http://www.be...

The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in a new and finely nuanced image that ESO is releasing today. Although this ghostly cloud is rather isolated from Orion's bright stars, the latter's powerful winds and light have had a...

Maxima of long period variable T Pegasi on the 9th March, 2010 Magnitude: 8.9-14.3 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 22 08 54.04, Dec +12 32 26.2

Maxima of long period variable U Perseus on the 11th March, 2010 Magnitude: 8.1-11.3 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 01 59 35.1231, Dec +54 49 19.992

Maxima of long period variable V Leo on the 15th March, 2010 Magnitude: 9.1-13.7 Type: Mira Position (2000): RA 10 00 01.9220, Dec +21 15 44.361

Meteor -0.4mag 1.3.2010 23:19 GMT Click to Play | View Details Niederkrüchten, Germany

The Near-Earth Asteroid 2000 CO101 is to make a close flyby of the Earth moon system on the 17th September 2009. The 0.5 - 1.0 km wide Apollo asteroid was discovered by LINEAR - Lincoln Laboratory ETS, New Mexico, on the 8th February 2000. Minimum distance: 0.04582 AU. Date: 2009-09-17 21:36: 00 UT Max...

Ancient copper trade routes in Yunnan Province Once caravan routes, and copper merchants from throughout China converged in remote but bustling Nagu Town in Yunnan Province near misted mountains of rich copper mines. Nagu means "black earth" in the language of the Yi ethnic group, ind...

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OverHorizon, a new satellite operator addressing the global mobile broadband satellite communication market, has chosen European satellite launch service Arianespace to launch its first communications satellite, OHO-1, into Earth orbit. [url=http://www.examiner.com/x-5429-DC-Spac...

The 69 - 160 metre wide asteroid 1996 GQ will make a close pass (30.6-lunar distances, 0.0787-AU), travelling at 8.51-km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th March, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...

Massive Black Hole Implicated in Stellar Destruction New results from research led by a University of Alabama astronomer suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the sun. If confirmed, this discovery would be a cosmic double play: it wo...

Ancient polar-bear fossil yields genome DNA from a 110,000 - 130,000-year-old polar-bear fossil has been successfully sequenced. The genome, from a jawbone found in Svalbard, Norway, in 2004, indicates when polar bears (Ursus maritimus) diverged from their nearest common relative, the brown...

Title: Transits and Lensing by Compact Objects in the Kepler Field: Disrupted Stars Orbiting Blue Stragglers Authors: Rosanne Di Stefano Kepler's first major discoveries are two hot objects orbiting stars in its field. These may be the cores of stars that have each been eroded or disrupted by a com...

Tropical Storm Sarah is heading southward towards the South Cook Islands.