* Astronomy

A magnitude 16.6 Type Ia supernova, 2009gs, was discovered on the 15th June, 2009, by the Catalina Sky Survey, in an anonymous galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. The supernova is located 1.1" east and 0.4" north from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA. = 21h18m49s.42, Dec =...

The German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - DLR) at Braunschweig will be starting construction of a new flight development simulator centre. The Helmholtz Association has approved financing for the amount of euro 8.9 million. A further euro 1 million will be made ava...

Arran residents and holidaymakers will have a unique opportunity to learn a little about the worlds most advanced project in astronomy in the Ormidale Pavilion next week. Dr Richard Prestage will be giving a talk on a revolutionary new telescope being built at an altitude of 16,500 feet in the Chile...

A senior Russian official said that despite interest from the Iranian government, his country has no current plans to help Tehran launch another satellite. While Irans government has been trying to flex its military muscle by announcing an aerial exercise in the midst of a domestic crackdown, Rus...

Streaming sand grains help define essence of a liquid Water forms droplets because attractive interactions between molecules produce surface tension. If macroscopic objects - say, grains of sand - replace the molecules, the relative strength of this attraction would dramatically drop. What v...

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. STScI is the data archive centre for NASA's Kepler mission, a spacecraft that is undertaking a survey for Earth-size planets in our region of the galaxy....

Moroccan university Al Akhawayn and Carnegie Mellon of Pittsburgh, PA are planning to build a cylindrical radio telescope of 2000 m² , whose first phase will require a budget of $ 20 million. The telescope will be installed in the Eastern Moroccan province of Figuig. It will map the sky ten times fast...

The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program is a ground-breaking undertaking to study the effects of Martian gravity on mammals. We are taking the first step towards human missions to Mars - and beyond. Data from this mission will make a significant contribution to our understanding of fundamental spa...

Asteroid 2005 UN524 = 2003 YW292 Orbital elements: 2005 UN524 = 2003 UW292 Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 335.48193 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00986588 Peri. 50.98799 +0.01929224 -0.98096560 a 21.5300683 Node 39.25222 +0.79671973 -0.10167323 e 0.1294738 Incl. 17.78066 +0.60404096 +0.16543...

Orbital elements: 2009 MM1 Earth MOID = 0.2044 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 353.00177 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27629187 Peri. 223.50742 +0.40441624 +0.90296001 a 2.3346618 Node 70.83290 -0.79133797 +0.42512366 e 0.4892213 Incl. 8.84851 -0.45851033 +0.06271439 P 3.57 H 21.8 G 0.15 U 8 [u...

Swift satellite detection: 08:28:29.85, 18th June 2009 Position(2000): R.A. = 19h 35m 57.52s, Dec. = +78d 21' 27.3" GRB_ERROR position: 4.7" Type: GRB

Swift satellite detection: 04:22:43.15, 21st June 2009 Position(2000): R.A. = 00h 43m 57s, Dec. = +61d 58' 04" GRB_ERROR position: 3.00' Type: GRB

Swift satellite detection: 22:07:25.39, 21st June 2009 Position(2000): R.A. = 20h 53m 52.80s, Dec. = +69d 01 41.1 GRB_ERROR position: 8.0 Type: GRB

Imagine a chance to sit in an informal setting with some of the world's leading science experts and ask whatever questions come to mind. The University of Arizona's Flandrau Science Centre and Planetarium is introducing its "got Science? Café", a series of free, monthly chats with UA pr...

Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Penn State/S.Park & J.Lee); IR (NASA/JPL-Caltech) A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows a supernova remnant with a different look. This object, known as SNR 0104-72.3 (SNR 0104 for short), is in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small neighbouring gal...