NOAA, NASA Restore Climate Sensor to Upcoming NPP Satellite NASA and NOAA Wednesday announced a plan to restore a key ozone layer climate sensor to the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program. The Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) Limb will be...
A Carved Pictish stone uncovered in a field near Forfar could become a permanent resident of the town's museum.
Members of Angus Council's leisure committee agreed last night to ask Dundee Museum to extend its loan of the Dunnichen stone to the Meffan Institute for another five years.
Councill...
Title: EPIC 219388192 b - an inhabitant of the brown dwarf desert in the Ruprecht 147 open cluster Author: Grzegorz Nowak, Enric Palle, Davide Gandolfi, Fei Dai, Antonino F. Lanza, Teruyuki Hirano, Oscar Barragán, Akihiko Fukui, Hans Bruntt, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Jorge Prieto-Arran...
Young stellar system caught in act of forming close multiples For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a process, caused by gravitational instability, was at work, but new observa...
The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide blasts off in August on BBC TWOJanet Sumner of The Open University is at the Mount Wilson Observatory to explain how Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dc7QeCz97ms] 'The Cosmos: A Beginner's...
The US is to establish what it calls "the largest area of protected sea in the world" around its Pacific islands. Commercial fishing and mining will be banned in the protected zones which include the Marianas Trench, the deepest area of ocean on the planet. The area totals 500,000 sq km of...
Messier 2 (also M2, NGC 7089, HD 205146 and GCL 121) is a magnitude +6.3 globular star cluster located 37,500 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The cluster can be found five degrees north of the star Beta Aquarii. The cluster was discovered by Italian-born astronomer Jean-Dominiq...
Mare Orientale ("eastern sea" in Latin) is a Lunar mare. It is located on the western border of the Moon's nearside and farside and is thus difficult to see from an Earthbound perspective. Mare Orientale is difficult to observe from Earth, as it lies at the extreme western edge of the ne...
It has given generations of stargazers free access to the heavens as the only public observatory in the UK. But the 85-year-old Mills Observatory in Dundee is now under threat of privatisation with the city's council considering turning its daily running over to a private trust. Like other council...
Meteorite crashes near Lake Baikal, Russia Residents of eastern Siberia, Russia reported seeing a flash of green light falling on Earth around Lake Baikal at 11:45 UTC on October 25, 2016. The observed green light in the Irkutsk Region and the Buryatia Republic closely resembled the famous Chelya...
U.S. Air Force weather satellite just broke up in orbit A third U.S. Air Force weather satellite that launched more than 20 years ago has broken up in orbit, Air Force Space Command disclosed Monday evening. Air Force officials confirmed the breakup of the long-retired Defence Meteorological Sate...
April was a memorable month for the New Horizons spacecraft team, for it saw the completion of spacecraft assembly and the accomplishment of a thorough Comprehensive Performance Test (CPT) that put the spacecraft and its seven instruments through rigorous functional testing.
The upcomi...
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