* Astronomy

Title: On the nature of IC 3328, an early-type dwarf galaxy with weak spiral structure Authors: Thorsten Lisker, Burkhard Fuchs (ARI/ZAH, University of Heidelberg) (Version v2) Various early-type dwarf galaxies with disk features were identified in the Virgo cluster, including objects that d...

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Observers have reported a meteor over Edinburgh, after a "very fast" bright green light was seen travelling across the sky towards East Lothian. Witnesses said it happened just after 22:30 BST on Monday and was as fast as a low-flying jet. The fireball lasted about five seconds before bu...

Researchers suggest that by measuring fluctuations in the absorption of cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons by neutral gas during the cosmic dark ages, at red shifts z ~ 7--200, could reveal the primordial deuterium abundance of the Universe. The strength of the cross-c...

Orbital elements: 2009 HB Earth MOID = 0.1304 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 332.02957 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29121641 Peri. 108.44325 +0.71209541 +0.69756219 a 2.2541985 Node 207.49938 -0.69146038 +0.67717254 e 0.5507308 Incl. 9.91975 -0.12166621 +0.23418869 P 3.38 H 18.0 G 0.15 U 9 MP...

In May 2008, the Diet enacted a basic law on space without rousing sufficient public debate. Representing a drastic departure from Japan's traditional "peaceful purposes only" space policy, the law paves the way for extensive use of space for security purposes, especially missile de...

Free Offer! GRAS announces, "Take your own deep space images for free" Anyone, with an Internet connected computer, located anywhere on the Earth, will be granted free access to GRAS-013, a remote Telescope. This robotic astronomical ground-based, Hubble-space-telescope-like sy...

A Newtown man has described seeing a meteorite-like shower of sparks over Highton the night the suburb was rocked by an explosion. David Van Vledder believes some type of debris burnt up in the atmosphere, causing sparks in shades of green and the noise. [url=http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.a...

A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 01:16:10 (UTC) on Saturday, May 09, 2009, off the coast of Ecuador, 500 km SSE of Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, at a depth of 23.9 km. Location 1.405°N, 85.228°W

LA-98 "Nike Base" Nuclear Missile Site at Magic Mountain Click to Play | View Details

In the upcoming movie "Angels & Demons" - a story from the author of "The Da Vinci Code" - some bad guys steal antimatter from CERN, a nuclear research laboratory on the Swiss/French border, and use it to make a bomb with which they intend to destroy the Vatican. If you've eve...

Proton K SL-12 Rocket Body (Auxiliary Motor) that was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on the 25th December, 2002, for the Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) mission (Kosmos 2394, 2395, 2396), is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th May, 2009 @ 19:4...

Orbital elements: 2009 HG Earth MOID = 0.0485 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 23.91747 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61277359 Peri. 359.72375 -0.64459958 +0.76280837 a 1.3727855 Node 230.13998 -0.70130590 -0.61660776 e 0.2289022 Incl. 3.81962 -0.30440339 -0.19472612 P 1.61 H 23.9 G 0.15 U 9 [ur...

A low flying US military C130 transport plane? Read more (Japanese)

A possible magnitude 12 nova has been discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, on the 4th May, 2009. Position(2000): RA = 05 31.4, Dec = -67° 06