* Astronomy

An international team of radio astronomers have discovered the secret explosion of a massive star, a new supernova, in the nearby galaxy M82. Despite being the closest supernova discovered in the last five years, the explosion is exclusively detectable at radio wavelengths since the dense gas an...

2009 KT4 Earth Impact Risk SummaryTorino Scale (maximum) Palermo Scale (maximum) -5.63Palermo Scale (cumulative) -5.12Impact Probability (cumulative) 1.9e-07Number of Potential Impacts 63 Vimpact 13.41 km/sVinfinity 7.46 km/sH 22.0Diameter 0.130 kmMass 3.1e+09 kgEnergy 6.7e+01 MTal...

Asteroid 2009 KR4 = 9K03D8E NEOCPO Orbital elements: 2009 KR4 Earth MOID = 0.0259 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 196.74060 (2000.0) P Q n 1.27406261 Peri. 191.38393 +0.32143299 -0.93304747 a 0.8427049 Node 240.04786 +0.88277740 +0.35699470 e 0.2407986 Incl. 10.74681 +0.3426147...

We attended the Mountain Skies Astronomical Society (MSAS) astronomy night through our home schooling Charter Sky Mountain. MSAS is located in Lake Arrowhead, CA. and is worth the ninety mile trip. It is a small non-profit observatory that has a full telescope that can allow you to see 300 times g...

Just when SETI@home is celebrating its 10th anniversary, its older brother, Project SERENDIP, is getting a general makeover. In June of 2009 Dan Werthimer will lead a group of 8 students to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to replace the aging SERENDIP IV system which has been idle for the past...

Orbital elements: 2008 CM PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0432 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 260.95707 (2000.0) P Q n 0.50277727 Peri. 130.59829 +0.49679200 -0.64607352 a 1.5663385 Node 279.62910 +0.50539761 +0.75816491 e 0.4084417 Incl. 35.99763 +0.70552886 -0.08817581 P 1.96 H 17.1 G 0.1...

Thousands of Rio de Janeiro residents flock to the city's beaches to see a flying saucer designed by a U.S. artist. See more

Few know that the historical town of Moodabidri is also famous for prehistoric artifacts - The Dolmens or Megalithic tombs. A dolmen is a type of burial site of prehistoric homo sapiens. Typically a dolmen consists of a single chamber which is closed on all sides with granite slabs. There will be a la...

This week, two of the biggest science stories of the year broke - the first ever British astronaut and a 47-million-year-old fossil that tells us how humans and other primates are related to the rest of the animal kingdom. We've decided to ignore those and instead Alok Jha and James Randerson have hop...

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The quality of the night sky at Calar Alto Observatory has been extensively analysed using many different observational techniques, and with data gathered between 2004 and 2007. The conclusions indicate that Calar Alto is a dark site with a considerable fraction of useful nights for astronomica...

What the future looks like As the planet faces the most dangerous century in its 4.5bn-year history, astronomer royal Martin Rees looks into his crystal ball It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes. The most impo...

Meade NGC-70TC 70mm (2.8") Refractor Computerised Telescope # Captures more light for brighter images and greater detail # Includes two Series 4000 plossl 1.25" eyepieces: SP9.7 mm.(103X) and SP26 mm.(38X) # Includes Red-dot projection # Planetarium software and Instructional Vi...

Type IID Meteorite This is the first time such a meteorite is found in Antarctica. Here, the surface has been polished in order to reveal its metal structure. See more The IID irons often contain abundant inclusions of nicke...