* Astronomy

Title: Helium Nova on a Very Massive White Dwarf -- A Light Curve Model of V445 Puppis (2000) Revised Authors: Mariko Kato (Keio Univ.), Izumi Hachisu (Univ. of Tokyo), Seiichiro Kiyota (VSOLJ), Hideyuki Saio (Tohoku Univ.) V445 Pup (2000) is a unique object identified as a helium nova. Colour inde...

Greek astrophysicist and NASA robotics expert to be honoured Dr. Thanasis (Tom) Economou, an astrophysicist at Chicago University and NASA robotics expert, is the recipient of the Athens Information Technology's (AIT) first Niki Award, which will be presented on Monday evening in Athens. [url...

Loud noise shatters glass in Tularosa[url=http://www.alamogordonews.com/ci_13947710]Re...

Gallium nitride transistor could replace silicon[url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec09/GaNtransis...

The Bynostar LE 70-700 refractor telescope is an excellent starting scope for a beginner, or amateur astronomer. * Aperture: 70 mm Achromatic * Focal length: 700 mm * Focal ratio: 1:10 * An alt-azimuth mount * An alt-azimuth mount * Aluminium tripod * View finder: 5x24 * Zenith prism * Moon filt...

Gerard 't Hooft shared the prize for physics in 1990 1999. Among his admirers were an astronomical couple who had come across an asteroid or two and wanted one named in his honour. The result is known as 9491 Thooft, the apostrophe lost in the ether and the T and H having collided. This was the handiwork o...

Poland to launch satellites[url=http://www.polishmarket.com.pl/document/:21861?p=...

Batteries made from plain copier paper could make for future energy storage that is truly paper thin. The approach relies on the use of carbon nanotubes - tiny cylinders of carbon - to collect electric charge. While small-scale nanotube batteries have been demonstrated before, the plain paper app...

A possible magnitude 16.2 supernova was discovered on the 6th December, 2009, in he galaxy IC65 in the constellation Andromeda. The supernovas is located 4 east and 12 north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 01 00 55.88, Dec +47 41 07.7

Title: L1506: a prestellar core in the making Authors: Laurent Pagani (LERMA), Isabelle Ristorcelli (CESR), Nathalie Boudet (CESR), Martin Giard (CESR), Alain Abergel (IAS), Jean-Philippe Bernard (CESR) Exploring the structure and dynamics of cold starless clouds is necessary to understan...

Title: A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common Authors: T. Sumi, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, A. Udalski, V. Batista, M. Dominik, P. Fouqué, D. Kubas, A. Gould, B. Macintosh, K. Cook, S. Dong, L. Skuljan, A. Cassan, The MOA Collaboration: F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, A. Fuku...

Title: On a new Near-Infrared method to estimate the absolute ages of star clusters: NGC3201 as a first test case Authors: G. Bono (2,3), P.B. Stetson (4), D.A. VandenBerg (5), A. Calamida (6), M. Dall'Ora (7), G. Iannicola (3), P. Amico (6), A. Di Cecco (2), E. Marchetti (6), M. Monelli (7), N. Sanna (...

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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and RIKEN have successfully acquired an all-sky X-ray image using the "Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI)" installed on the Exposed Facility of the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo." [url=http://img.photobucket.com...

Orbital elements: 2009 XD Earth MOID = 0.1907 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 348.60539 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24327229 Peri. 269.21635 -0.82772999 -0.25238027 a 2.5414074 Node 256.05231 +0.40692909 -0.88494845 e 0.6903153 Incl. 31.09048 -0.38635706 -0.39136995 P 4.05 H 18.2 G 0.15 U 9 [u...