Lights spotted over East Anglia spark new UFO mystery A huge new UFO mystery has started after a string of sightings of bright orange lights in the night skies over East Anglia were spotted. The dazzling light shows have bewitched and intrigued eyewitnesses all over Norfolk and as far south as Ipswic...
Hildene to host astronomy event On Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 7:30 p.m., beginning in the Beckwith Room, Hildene will host an astronomy event to include a visit to the home's historic observatory. Burr and Burton Academy teacher Bill Muench will present a power point on "Space and Time." Foll...
Title: 2003bg: The First Type IIb Hypernova Authors: Mario Hamuy, Jinsong Deng, Paolo A. Mazzali, Nidia I. Morrell, Mark M. Phillips, Miguel Roth, Sergio Gonzalez, Joanna Thomas-Osip, Wojtek Krzeminski, Carlos Contreras, Jose Maza, Luis Gonzalez, Leonor Huerta, Gaston Folatelli, Ryan Chorn...
Orbital elements: 2006 XQ51 Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 37.02741 (2000.0) P Q n 0.01561036 Peri. 134.42563 +0.90387566 -0.06069977 a 15.8560171 Node 233.88923 +0.04107593 +0.99762318 e 0.3774147 Incl. 31.61247 +0.42581869 +0.03261187 P 63.14 H 9.8 G 0.15 U 1 [url=http://www.c...
Title: Radio observations of ZwCl 2341.1+0000: a double radio relic cluster Authors: R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Rottgering, J. Bagchi, S. Raychaudhury, H. T. Intema, F. Miniati, T. A. Ensslin, M. Markevitch, T. Erben (Version v2) Context: Hierarchal models of large scale structure (LSS) formatio...
Title: Planetary companions around the K giant stars 11 UMi and HD 32518 Authors: M. P. Döllinger, A. P. Hatzes, L. Pasquini, E. W. Guenther, M. Hartmann 11 UMi and HD 32518 belong to a sample of 62 K giant stars that has been observed since February 2004 using the 2m Alfred Jensch telescope of the Thürin...
Germany Proposes Unmanned Moon Landing for 2015 Germany should try to launch an unmanned mission to the moon by around 2015, the government official in charge of aerospace matters said. Economy Ministry State Secretary Peter Hintze said a German moon landing could be feasible "within the ne...
Title: V3885 Sagittarius: a Comparison with a Range of Standard Model Accretion Disks Authors: Albert P. Linnell, Patrick Godon, Ivan Hubeny, Edward M. Sion, Paula Szkody, Paul E. Barrett A ~\chi² analysis of standard model accretion disk synthetic spectrum fits to combined $FUSE$ and STIS spe...
A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2009ic, was discovered on the 5th August, 2009, by Pignata et al. at the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) in the spiral galaxy PGC 16256 in the constellation Orion. The supernova is located 9.6" east and 23.2" south from the center of the galaxy. As y...
A Shropshire man is appealing for help in identifying a mysterious flying object. Ted Goodman, from Shrewsbury, was staying with relatives near Llangollen over the weekend. The group say they saw a silent fast moving object in the sky at about 10pm. [url=http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/08...
Title: Dust Formation Observed in Young Supernova Remnants with Spitzer Authors: J. Rho (SSC/Caltech), W. T. Reach (Planck/Caltech), A. Tappe (CFA/Harvard), L. Rudnick (UMN), T. Kozasa (Hakkaido U.), U. Hwang (GSFC/NASA), M. Andersen (SSC/Caltech), H. Gomez (Cardiff), T. DeLaney (MIT), L. D...
A Proton-K SL-12 Rocket body (Auxiliary Motor) that was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on the 25th December, 2002, for the Glonass (COSMOS 2394, 2395, 2396) satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 10th August, 2009 @ 23:05 GMT ħ48 hours. Period:...