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gantija temples to get a visitor centre Maltese architects have a chance to try their hand at designing a much-needed visitor centre - with a budget of euro 2.5 million - for the pre-historic gantija temples in Gozo. Heritage Malta yesterday launched a design competition for a heritage park, includ...

Lilith is a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith]Read mo...

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Brazil and China will postpone their fourth joint satellite launching from 2010 to mid-2011, a Brazilian official said Wednesday. The two parties held a critical design review meeting a few days ago and decided to reschedule the date for launching the satellite CBERS-3, said Thyrso Villela, dire...

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Tasco Spacestation 70AZ Refractor Telescope Expand (31kb, 560 x 754) 70mm lens Objective lens dia: 800mm Eyepiece: 25mm (32x), 10mm (80x), 4mm (200x) Partially pre-assembled Sturdy design 70x magnification Single fork arm Altazimuth mount Red dot Starpointer finderscope Focal ratio: F/11.4...

A new sunspot group has emerged on the Sun's northern hemisphere. Expand (83kb, 560 x 560) Credit SOHO/MDI

The 270 - 600 metre wide asteroid 2001 TE2 will make a close pass (26.2 lunar distances, 0.0673 AU), travelling at 7.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th February, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dista...

A possible magnitude 15.8 supernova was discovered on the 8th February, 2010, in the spiral galaxy MCG+08-25-010 in the constellation Canes Venatici. Position (2000): RA 13 29 15.92 , Dec +46 30 14.0

NRL's ANDE-2 Launches Aboard STS-127 The Naval Research Laboratory's satellite suite, the Atmospheric Neutral Density Experiment 2 (ANDE-2), launched aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009. The ANDE-2 satellite suite consists of two nearly perfectly spherical micro-satell...

Orbital elements: 2010 CK1 Earth MOID = 0.0539 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 274.37618 (2000.0) P Q n 0.80310647 Peri. 77.83051 -0.70591125 +0.64788245 a 1.1462710 Node 141.45625 -0.68118008 -0.73173316 e 0.2144061 Incl. 27.34734 +0.19412113 -0.21169534 P 1.23 H 23.7 G 0.15 U 8 [u...

The Medway Neolithic megaliths In the lower Medway valley, on both sides of the river, are a number of large sarsen stones which are collectively known as The Medway Megaliths. They were moved there between 2500-1700 BC and were part of Neolithic, chambered long barrows, which were ancient burial t...

Tematangi also known as "Bligh's Lagoon Island" is an atoll in the southeastern area of the Tuamotu Archipelago, French Polynesia. Tematangi's nearest neighbour is Mururoa, which is located 161 km to the ESE. Tematangi is the closest land area to the antipode of Mecca. This means that t...

Two University of Alberta students had the opportunity to build and launch a rocket at the Andoya Rocket Range in Norway last week. The course is a pilot project put on by the University of Oslo, and the Institute for Space, Science, Exploration, and Technology. [url=http://thegatewayonline.ca/...

Title: Suzaku Observations of the Radio Galaxy 3C 33 Authors: Daniel A. Evans (1), James N. Reeves (2), Martin J. Hardcastle (3), Ralph P. Kraft (4), Julia C. Lee (4), Shanil N. Virani (5) ((1) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, (2) Keele University, (3) University of Hertford...