Title: The Montreal White Dwarf Database: a Tool for the Community Author: P. Dufour, S. Blouin, S. Coutu, M. Fortin-Archambault, C. Thibeault, P. Bergeron, G. Fontaine We present the "Montreal White Dwarf Database" (MWDD), an accessible database with sortable/filterable table and interacti...
Salton Sea poses earthquake threat to Southern California The Salton Sea east of San Diego is a deceptively dangerous backwater, hiding faults that repeatedly produce powerful earthquakes that jolt all of Southern California, says a new study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Scient...
Carl Cox closes Space in Ibiza for the final time Space in Ibiza has closed its doors for the final time after 27 years. The club opened in 1989 and was known for its legendary terrace, Carl Cox's mind-blowing sets and 22 hour dance marathons on a Sunday. Read more [spoiler] [video=https://www.youtu...
Title: A New Milky Way Satellite Discovered In The Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey Author: Daisuke Homma, Masashi Chiba, Sakurako Okamoto, Yutaka Komiyama, Masayuki Tanaka, Mikito Tanaka, Miho N. Ishigaki, Masayuki Akiyama, Nobuo Arimoto, Jose A. Garmilla, Robert H. Lupton, Michael A. Stra...
NGC 7479 (also Caldwell 44, UGC 12343 and PGC 70419) is a magnitude +11.6 barred spiral galaxy located 105 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datche...
Sky Muster II and GSAT-18 For its eighth mission of 2016, and the year's fifth Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, Arianespace will orbit two satellites: Sky Muster II for the Australian operator nbn (National Broadband Network), and GSAT-18 for the Indian space agency IS...
NGC 6782 (also IRAS 19195-6001, 2MASX J19235793-5955210 and PGC 63168) is a magnitude +11.8 barred spiral galaxy located 183 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at F...
Title: Astronomy and landscape at the prehistoric settlement Villaggio dei Faraglioni, Ustica, Sicily Author: Franco Foresta Martin, Giulio Magli The placement of the Middle Bronze Age settlement Villaggio dei Faraglioni on the Ustica island, one of the best preserved prehistoric village of...
Iran's space agency 'interested' in cooperating with NASA The head of Iran's space agency says his country is interested in cooperating with NASA. Mohsen Bahrami said Tuesday that "many in the world look at NASA's programs. We are interested in having cooperation, naturally. When you are in orbit...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul Perlmutter The Supernova Cosmology Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Cali...
Asteroid 19695 Billnye was discovered on the 8th September 1999 by the Catalina Sky Survey. Bill Nye "The Science Guy"' (b. 1955) is one of the world's pre-eminent science educators. His pedagogical vision, combined with his affability and humour across radio, television, lectures, books and th...
The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements, collectively called the Antarctic Treaty System or ATS, regulate international relations with respect to Antarctica, Earth's only continent without a native human population. The treaty, entering into force in 1961 and eventually signed by 47 cou...
Title: KIC 8262223: A Post-Mass Transfer Eclipsing Binary Consisting of a Delta Scuti Pulsator and a Helium White Dwarf Precursor Author: Zhao Guo, Douglas R. Gies, Rachel A. Matson, Antonio García Hernández, Zhanwen Han, Xuefei Chen KIC~8262223 is an eclipsing binary with a short orbital perio...
Lord of the rings When University of Cincinnati researchers uncovered the tomb of a Bronze Age warrior - left untouched for more than 3,500 years and packed with a spectacular array of precious jewellery, weapons and riches - the discovery was hailed by experts as "the find of a lifetime." Shari Stoc...
