A high-altitude balloon experiment above the Antarctic seems to have seen a possible signature of mysterious 'dark matter', similar to that spotted earlier this year by a European satellite. The Advanced Thin Ionisation Calorimeter (ATIC), an experiment to search for charged particles from sp...
Leading Russian satellite producer TsSKB Progress is putting the finishing touches to the Resurs-DK1, a new-generation earth observation imaging satellite.
The first commercial launch is scheduled for the third quarter of this year.
High-resolution imagery has always been in gr...
The best show in town this Saturday will be in the heavens. The Midland Stargazers, a group of amateur astronomers, will lead Astronomy Night starting at 8 p.m. at the Huronia Museum. Read more
MSU researchers have made precise mass measurements of four such nuclei, 68-selenium, 70-selenium, 71-bromine and an excited state of 70-bromine. The results may make it easier to understand X-ray bursts, the most common stellar explosions in the galaxy. No one likes to say exactly how much they...
ESA will present the world premiere of Touching the Edge of the Universe, a stunning new planetarium show, starting 7 May 2009 at 30 planetaria in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The premiere comes just days before the launch of Herschel & Planck, two of the show's starring missions, schedul...
Orbital elements: 2009 JS Earth MOID = 0.0085 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 62.08238 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63164655 Peri. 112.46372 -0.91184557 -0.40325038 a 1.3453025 Node 43.85735 +0.32384115 -0.82178638 e 0.3586806 Incl. 6.37942 +0.25231837 -0.40256214 P 1.56 H 25.7 G 0.15 U 8 [url...
Orbital elements: 2009 JR PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0332 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 40.04652 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42953278 Peri. 295.02805 -0.93712081 -0.33284158 a 1.7396899 Node 225.72939 +0.34894472 -0.88796857 e 0.4915428 Incl. 8.43060 +0.00649333 -0.31737723 P 2.29 H 21.2 G 0.15 U...
New Thoughts on Ancient Northumberland was the title of Paul Frodsham's lecture at Morpeth Antiquarian Society. Mr Frodsham was the Northumberland National Park archaeologist for 15 years until 2007. His talk concentrated on a small but incredibly rich area of the Breamish valley on and around I...
Typhoon Kujira has developed in the western North Pacific. The typhoon is forecast to move eastward and then northeastward. This is the first typhoon this year. See more
If any of the children or adults were to learn something new, it would be their "Galileo moment," said the president of the Peterborough Astronomical Association (PAA). About 100 families, over the weekend, attended the sixth-annual Astronomy on the Hill, organised by the Peterborou...
On the 21st April, 2009, farmers workers working in fields in Gyeongsang Province of South Korea spotted what they thought was a helicopter falling from the sky. The witnesses observed flames and smoke coming from the impact site. Police and emergency services with rescue helicopters began a sea...
Title: Chandra Discovery of an Intermediate Polar in Baade's Window Authors: JaeSub Hong (CfA), Maureen van den Berg (CfA), Silas Lay**** (Gemini), Jonathan E. Grindlay (CfA), Ping Zhao (CfA) We have discovered an intermediate polar (IP) in the 100 ks Chandra observation of Baade's Window (BW),...
Title: How Well Do We Know the Orbits of the Outer Planets? Authors: Gary L. Page, John F. Wallin, David S. Dixon This paper deals with the problem of astrometric determination of the orbital elements of the outer planets, in particular by assessing the ability of astrometric observations to detect...
Title: VSX J074727.6+065050: a new WZ Sagittae star in Canis minor Authors: Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Greg Bolt, Tut Campbell, Donald F. Collins, Lewis M. Cook, Timothy R. Crawford, Robert Koff, Tom Krajci, Jennie McCormick, Peter Nelson, Joseph Patterson, Pierre de Ponthiere, Mike Potter, R...