Title: Harrison transformation and charged black objects in Kaluza-Klein theory Authors: Burkhard Kleihaus, Jutta Kunz, Eugen Radu and Cristian Stelea We generate charged black brane solutions in D-dimensions in a theory of gravity coupled to a dilaton and an antisymmetric form, by using a Har...
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Centre unveils observatory With the flick of a switch, a 58-inch plasma screen will come alive Friday, Sept. 4, featuring images from the new observatory telescope at the grand opening of the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Centre's new observatory dome in Concord. Th...
After leaving the Space Test Centre in Germany on 29 August, CryoSat has safely arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow, Russia. CryoSat is scheduled for launch on 8 October 2005 at 15h02 UTC.
The convoy was initially transported by truck from IABG (Indu...
A possible magnitude 15 supernova was discovered on the 20th July, 2009, in the bright Sc galaxy NGC 578 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 30 West and 40 South from the center of the Galaxy. Position(2000): RA 01 30.4, Dec -22 41
Weaknesses in dikes detected by space tech spin-off A company from one of ESA's Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a scanner to spot weaknesses in dike structures. It is being used to inspect dikes and dams on the Danube river and in the Netherlands. Dutch start-up comp...
Title: Discovery of a new Wolf-Rayet star and its ring nebula in Cygnus Authors: V.V.Gvaramadze, S.Fabrika, W.-R.Hamann, O.Sholukhova, A.F.Valeev, V.P.Goranskij, A.M.Cherepashchuk, D.J.Bomans, L.M.Oskinova We report the serendipitous discovery of a ring nebula around a candidate Wolf-...
A magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2009iu, was discovered by the Chilean Automated Supernova search (CHASE) on the 1st, September, 2009, in the spiral galaxy NGC 7329 in the constellation Tucana. The supernova is located 82.8" west and 38.9" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type...
Orbital elements: 2005 TY51 Earth MOID = 0.1562 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 314.23335 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23582799 Peri. 3.42838 +0.12585681 -0.90498799 a 2.5946124 Node 79.64477 +0.90007721 -0.06809178 e 0.5601937 Incl. 24.40122 +0.41715835 +0.41995267 P 4.18 H 17.6 G 0.15 U 2 [u...
Orbital elements: 2009 QV38 Epoch 2009 Aug. 17.0 TT = JDT 2455060.5 MPC M 0.85040 (2000.0) P Q n 0.02594968 Peri. 354.56914 +0.99315303 -0.09628674 a 11.2992086 Node 11.59811 +0.11568970 +0.73205852 e 0.4704004 Incl. 19.21011 +0.01621560 +0.67440284 P 38.0 H 11.7 G 0.15 From 31 observations 200...
Scientists and artists plan to build a 40m-wide lunar clock by the River Thames by 2012. The aim is to create a new London landmark close to the proposed Olympic stadium as a monument to a more natural way of marking time. The proposed site is at East India Dock, six miles along the river from Westminster...
Title: Omniscopes: Large Area Telescope Arrays with only N log N Computational Cost Authors: Max Tegmark (MIT), Matias Zaldarriaga (IAS) We show that the class of antenna layouts for telescope arrays allowing cheap analysis hardware (with cost scaling as N log N rather than N^2 with the number of a...
Late summer is the best time to catch sight of the most dramatic of mythical creatures in the night sky - the Scorpion. Known officially as Scorpius (often incorrectly referred to as Scorpio), it's one of the few patterns of brighter stars that actually resembles the creature it's supposed to repres...
"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away, if your car can drive straight up" - Astronomer Fred Hoyle. If we could drive straight up at 100 kilometres an hour, that would take us to a height of 100 kilometres. Would that be high enough to take us into space? The answer's not th...
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