Residents of the Tashkent saw a UFO in Uzbekistan last Saturday, 16 May 2009. Between 18:00 and 18:30 (17.00 - 17.30 MST) residents of the Tashkent observed the UFOs movements. Read more (Russian) [url=http://www.centrasia.ru/newsA.ph...
A Chinese Chang Zheng (Long March) 4B rocket will launch the CBERS 2B (Zi yuan 1-02B) remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre, China, at 02:00 GMT on Sept. 19, 2007. The Satellite will be the third China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite, which both countries will s...
A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an inside look at how these missions are run. "Around the World in 80 Telescopes" is a 24-hour webcast that is part of the "100 Hours of Astronomy" event for the Interna...
Iran says it has successfully test launched a mid-range surface-to-surface missile, state media has reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Sajjil-2 missile used "advanced technology" and had "landed exactly" on the unspecified target. [url=http://news.b...
Star-gazers will have a new place to discover the wonders of space with a deep space observatory being built at Cohunu Koala Park. The new facility will be used for day observations of the sun and for deep observations of space at night. The new observatory is expected to open before the end of this year...
West Virginia State University Center for the Advancement of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics has recently become the owner of a Star Lab. WVSU CASTEM purchased the Star Lab through a grant from the WV Space Grant Consortium. CASTEM is only the second owner of a Star Lab in the stat...
The GAW Observatory is one of two laboratories receiving new INAC funding from the Canadian government, in an effort to modernise the facilities. The Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP) in Resolute also received part of the $2 million dollars going to the two labs in Nunavut. The funding will go...
A stellar academic is in line to boldly go where no New Zealander has gone before - and she has Darth Vader to thank for reaching for the stars. Karen Willcox, an associate professor at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is in the running to become the first Kiwi in space. The West A...
Arizonans see UFO, NASA says it's a balloon NASA officials say it wasn't an alien spacecraft people in Arizona and New Mexico spotted floating far above them in the clear blue sky, just a giant research balloon. Read more
Title: The accretion disc in the quasar SDSS J0924+0219 Authors: D. J. E. Floyd, N. F. Bate, R. L. Webster We present single-epoch multi-wavelength optical-NIR observations of the "anomalous" lensed quasar SDSS J0924+0219, made using the Magellan 6.5-metre Baade telescope at Las Ca...
Title: The chromospherically--active binary CF Tuc revisited Authors: D. Dogru, A. Erdem, S. S. Dogru, S. Zola New high-resolution spectra, of the chromospherically active binary system CF Tuc, taken at the Mt. John University Observatory in 2007, were analysed using two methods: cross-corre...
Title: New Spectroscopic Observations of the Post-AGB Star V354Lac=IRAS22272+5435 Authors: V.G.Klochkova, V.E.Panchuk, N.S.Tavolganskaya The strongest absorption features with the lower-level excitation potentials \chi_low <1 eV are found to be split in the high-resolution optica...