Researchers at the European Southern Observatory, in collaboration with three French laboratories and UK-based e2v Technologies, claimed they have developed an ultra fast camera that can take 1,500 finely exposed images per second. The team, consisting of researchers from the Astrophysics L...
Fiery, Fast-Moving Object Seen In Sky A Birds Bridge Road couple saw, and photographed, a fiery, fast-moving object in the sky over southern Greene County on Monday night. Carl and Pauline Petsel say they don't know what the object was that they and a friend, who was visiting their home, saw about 10:...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 01:29:08 (UTC) on Wednesday, February 14, 2007, in the Easter Island Region, 370 km SW of Hanga Roa, Easter Island, at a depth of 10 km. Location 29.468°S, 112.184°W
Bhutan's year of science from solar eclipse day The education ministry will declare 2009 as the "Bhutan Year of Science and Technology" on July 22 when the world will witness one of the biggest events in terrestrial astronomy, the longest solar eclipse. The ministry will launch a series...
A safety system that could play a role in the next generation of American manned space flight vehicles will be tested in a Saturday morning launch on Wallops Island. The Max Launch Abort System is expected to reach an altitude of one mile at a speed of 700 miles per hour during its approximately 45-seco...
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. NASA is hoping it will inspire a new generation of astronauts - some of whom could become the first to walk on Mars. The Space Administration's global mission to encourage new recruits landed in Dundee this morning where a group of sc...
Google is to launch a new operating system, in its most direct challenge yet to the dominance of Microsoft. Google Chrome OS will be a development of its Chrome web browser. The search giant initially aims to install the new system on small, low-cost computers known as netbooks, which are currently o...
Canadas Space Telescope Celebrates Fourth Birthday: Canadians Invited to Join the Party Canadas first space telescope is celebrating its fourth birthday, but the party -- and the gift -- is for all Canadians, who are being offered a chance to submit proposals for future observations with this pow...
Remains of a pre-historic henge could be lying just feet below a Lincolnshire field, say experts. Studies of a large site in Navenby, north of Lincoln, have revealed telltale signs of what could be the county's biggest henge. The Bronze age place of ritual, worship or community gatherings is though...
A new satellite mobile phone network is due to be launched this year, using the largest and most powerful commercial satellite ever launched. TerreStar hopes to launch its first satellite, TerreStar-I, in June, to provide an IP-based mobile phone service to users in North America using phones tha...
Title: NTT, Spitzer and Chandra spectroscopy of SDSSJ095209.56+214313.3: the most luminous coronal-line supernova ever observed, or a stellar tidal disruption event ? Authors: S. Komossa, H. Zhou, A. Rau, M. Dopita, A. Gal-Yam, J. Greiner, J. Zuther, M. Salvato, D. Xu, H. Lu, R. Saxton, M. Ajell...
Title: The circumstellar disc in the Bok globule CB 26: Multi-wavelength observations and modelling of the dust disc and envelope Authors: J. Sauter, S. Wolf, R. Launhardt, D. L. Padgett, K. R. Stapelfeldt, C. Pinte, G. Duchene, F. Menard, C.-E. McCabe, K. Pontoppidan, M. Dunham, T.-L. Bourke, J....
The 220 - 490 metre wide asteroid 2001 HY7 will make a close pass (35.7 Lunar Distances, 0.0918 AU), travelling at 11.86 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th July, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance b...
Three eclipses, two lunar and a solar, will occur in a span of 30 days starting with a lunar eclipse on Tuesday as part of nature's grand spectacle. The eclipse, however, will not be visible over the UAE. People in Australia and South America can see the eclipse early in the morning. A wide area at the cen...
