North Korea has test-fired several missiles towards the Sea of Japan. South Korea's defence ministry said the launches appeared to be part of a routine military exercise by the secretive communist state. Reports from Japan and South Korea said that the tests involved a number of short-range anti-...
Stargazers will have a chance to look billions of light years into "deep space," when SUNY Oneonta unveils its new telescope Friday night, a college dean said Tuesday. At a "first light" ceremony at 8:30 p.m., faculty and staff will show the largest optical telescope in the st...
During the Antarctic winter of 2003, SPARO surveyed the large-scale magnetic fields of four Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs). We have recently been able to set constraints on the characteristic magnetic field strength in GMCs by combining these SPARO results with (a) results for small-scale field...
The University of Colorado is hosting a free talk Tuesday to discuss what the Cassini spacecraft has taught astronomers about Saturn's famous rings. Astronomer Nicole Albers will discuss the wonders of Saturn at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Auditorium 299 at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physi...
Anomalous X-ray pulsars
Tiny stellar 'corpses' have been caught blasting surprisingly powerful X-rays and gamma rays across our galaxy by ESA’s gamma-ray observatory Integral.
This discovery links these objects to the most magnetically active bodies in the Universe and forces scienti...
A magnitude 14.6 supernova, 2009ev, was discovered by C. Colesanti, C. Jacques, E. Pimentel, and T. Napoleao, (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) on the 27th May, 2009, in the spiral (SBa) galaxy NGC 5026 in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is located 45" east and 78" south from the cent...
The San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) reached a significant goal on Aug. 2 when scientists drilled into a seismically active section of the fault approximately two miles below the surface of the Earth.
"This is a milestone for SAFOD," says Mark Zoback, a professor of geophysics at...
NASA Briefing Provides New Global View of Ocean Health NASA will hold a media teleconference on Thursday, May 28, at 1 p.m. EDT, to present the first-ever global views of the health of marine plant life. Using a new measure of the health of phytoplankton in the world's oceans made possible by data from...
Among the highlights of this year's Le Weekend is a singular exercise in sound where the music of the stars is played within the confines of Stirling Observatory. Named Telescope, it's a recorded sound installation rather than a performance, and is the creation of duo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffa...
Nine years ago, an array of American Indians, environmentalists, preservationists, New Age spiritualists, diviners, even Cub Scouts rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artefact that many embraced as America's own Stonehenge. But today, the Circle -- a series of loaf-shaped hole...
Northridge opens state's first high school observatory Students at Northridge High School in Layton (Utah) will be some of the first to view deep-sky objects such as the Whirlpool Galaxy from their own school grounds. Starti...
A possible magnitude 19.3 supernova has been discovered on the 20th May, 2009, in the edge on spiral galaxy IC3704 in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 11 East and 13 North from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA 12 43 46.45, Dec +10 46 23.8
The Phantom Torso is back, and he has quite a story to tell. He's an armless, legless, human-shaped torso, a mannequin that looks like he's wrapped in a mummy's bandages. Scientists at the European Space Agency call him Matroshka, and like his NASA counterpart Fred, this mannequin is an intrepid spa...
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