Amateur astronomer Paul Cezanne moved to Truro full-time just 18 months ago, but he has already become involved in the community. He is on two town boards and last month was elected vice president of the Cape Cod Astronomical Society. He conducts workshops at Mass. Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife...
The seeing medium today here in athens. Light clouds and strong wind the weather conditions. The surface hadn`t nothing special. The great point today is a large area on the limb. Three prominences here. The bigger is a very beautiful anomalous type prominence. Very tall and with more plasma on her b...
A magnitude 7.7 nova was discovered on the 6th August, 2009, by Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, (Japan), and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, (Japan), in the constellation Sagittarius. The Nova has been confirmed spectroscopically by M. Fujii (Fujii Bisei Observatory, Okayam...
Title: A binary engine fuelling HD87643' s complex circumstellar environment, using AMBER/VLTI Authors: Florentin Millour (MPIFR), Olivier Chesneau (FIZEAU), Marcelo Borges Fernandes (FIZEAU), Anthony Meilland (MPIFR), Gilbert Mars (FRESNEL), C. Benoist (CASSIOPEE), E. Thiébaut (CRAL...
Astronomers are watching the moon to glimpse the first evidence of extremely energetic neutrinos in a growing number of projects looking for the most energetic neutrinos by aiming radio telescopes at the moon. Researchers normally look for the elusive neutrino by trekking to Antarctica, the Med...
Aerospace incubator gaining momentum For a nonprofit incubator that formed in January, eSpace: The Centre for Space Entrepreneurship has already taken off at a missilelike pace after it cleared its first hurdle in securing $2 million in government funding, added new mentors and chose its first t...
A 5 meters wide asteroid discovered on Dec. 21 by Stan Pope, was found to have had made a close approach on Dec. 19, 2004 ; approaching Earth from the direction of the Sun and so would have been nearly impossible to detect prior to close passage, and passing over the Antarctica . The object, named 2004 YD5...
Comet Juels-Holvorcem (C/2002 Y1) Sunday, June 22, 2003 Comet Juels-Holvorcem (C/2002 Y1) This comet will remain 9th magnitude all month, visible in binoculars and small telescopes from a dark site Discovery Date December 28, 2002 Magnitude 15.1 mag Discoverer Charles W. Juels (Fountain Hil...
Andrews Space, Inc. (Andrews) announced today the completion of a new integration lab, mission control centre, and flat floor to support spacecraft integration and hardware in the loop testing. The new facilities are part of a planned expansion at its Andrews Rapid Prototyping Lab, an 11,000 sq...
Look North - February 1st 2007 - UFO VideoClick to Play | View Details BBC Footage of a strange, bright object caught on a cameraphone over Leeds, UK at 9:30am on February 1st, 2007
Popular Rock Show at UW-BC Aug. 15-16 For anyone interested in rocks from space, meteors, asteroids or rocks in general, University of Wisconsin - River Falls Geology Professor, Dr. William Cordua may be able to answer your questions. He will be speaking at the Northwest Wisconsin Gem and Mineral S...
As the first rays of summer sunshine glint off the frosted surface of Mars, scientists in California are preparing an ambitious search effort to locate a spacecraft that went missing there as it prepared to land six years ago.
If all goes according to plan, the carbon dioxide frost over the martian...
Oberpfaffenhofen opens fourth ESA hotbed for innovative companies ESA, the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), the German federal state of Bavaria and the German bank Kreissparkasse München Starnberg opened the fourth ESA Business Incubation Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen on 3 August. Over the next f...
