Title: An X-Ray Face-on View of the Sgr B Molecular Clouds Observed with Suzaku Authors: Syukyo G. Ryu, Katsuji Koyama, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Ryosuke Fukuoka, Takeshi Go Tsuru We present a new methodology to derive the positions of the Sgr B molecular clouds (MCs) along the line of sight, as an applic...
Title: Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA. III. Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency and Transients Authors: J. S. Deneva, J. M. Cordes, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Nice, D. R. Lorimer, F. Crawford, N. D. R. Bhat, F. Camilo, D. J. Champion, P. C. C. Freire, S. Edel, V. I. Kondratiev, J. W. T. Hessels, F. A. Jene...
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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is conducting a review of the role of Intute, a national internet search and training service for UK universities and colleges, for which it provides funding. The University of Bristol is a leading par...
The University of Western Australias new Zadko telescope has discovered a new asteroid - a 4km wide rock orbiting in the outer reaches of our solar system. Curtin University Honours student, Mick Todd, used the UWA facility to make the unexpected discovery while searching the sky for potentially h...
An official with the Coconino County National Forest Service has reported a "very large" meteor crashed overnight in the area of Schnebly Hill near Flagstaff. Read more
Orbital elements: 2009 HK73 Earth MOID = 0.0014 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 71.91908 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70920504 Peri. 300.28857 -0.91385559 -0.40191967 a 1.2453407 Node 216.10251 +0.39799935 -0.85853613 e 0.2825796 Incl. 5.61901 +0.08040201 -0.31839645 P 1.39 H 26.2 G 0.15 U 7 [...
In the depressing 1998 film "Deep Impact," Elijah Wood's high school-age, amateur astronomer character spots a large, rogue comet destined to strike the Earth and wipe out all life. While this scenario thankfully is still just a work of fiction, life is still imitating art to some degre...
On Jan. 29, 2008, a 405m-wide asteroid, 2007 TU24, will make a close flyby (384401 km, 1.4 lunar distances) of the Earth. The asteroid will appear as a magnitude 10.4 star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Ephemeris ate TT R. A. (2000) Dec. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2007 12 16 23 54.26 -24 47.6 0.220 0...
Over the past 19 years, Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when you thought these interactions couldnt look any stranger, a new image of a trio of ga...
Title: The origin of large peculiar motions of star-forming regions and spiral structures of our Galaxy Authors: Junichi Baba, Yoshiharu Asaki, Junichiro Makino, Makoto Miyoshi, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Keiichi Wada Recent VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) observations (Xu et al. 2006; Sa...
The Russian space agency is expected to unveil development plans for a next-generation manned spacecraft on Monday. Roscosmos should name the ship's prime developer, which has competed to win government funds for the project. The proposed new spacecraft should enter into service sometime towa...
A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched into space Thursday with three new satellites for Moscow's GLONASS navigation system, aimed at competing with US and European systems, a report said. The satellites were placed into orbit after the rocket blasted off from Russia's Baikonur launch pad in Kaz...