DOMEClick to Play | View Details A time-lapse movie, distilled from over 200,000 images, condensing a year's construction of a telescope dome into 3 minutes. The dome, which will house the 2.4-meter Automated Planet Finder (APF), is part of University of California's Lick Observatory, atop Mt. H...
The number of women reaching senior positions in astronomy is still disproportionately small, despite significant increases in numbers of female undergraduate and postgraduate students in recent years. To highlight some of the issues facing women during their careers in astronomy, the Inter...
Orbital elements: 2009 HL21 Earth MOID = 0.0107 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 47.76659 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45241772 Peri. 2.50534 -0.88806953 -0.45961646 a 1.6805173 Node 150.12678 +0.42145199 -0.82201989 e 0.4546862 Incl. 1.06195 +0.18360480 -0.33620828 P 2.18 H 22.4 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
Rocks from Mars could be brought to the UK within the next 20 years, if a bid to host a study facility is successful. The European and US space agencies want to send a mission to the Red Planet to collect and return geological samples. These fragments of rock and soil could be in Earth labs by the 2020s, acc...
WAS it a plane, was it a flying saucer or was it a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere? That is what two men on the Gold and Sunshine coasts are asking after both saw a mysterious white light shooting through the night sky on Monday. Nerang resident Michael Baker was standing outside the Worongary shopp...
NOAA-N Prime Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg for Launch The latest polar-orbiting operational environmental weather satellite developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, called NOAA-N Prime, arrived Tuesday by C-5A military cargo aircraft at Vanden...
Title: Open Clusters ASCC21 as a Probable Birthplace of the Neutron Star Geminga Authors: V.V. Bobylev, A.T. Bajkova (Version v2) We analyse the encounters of the neutron star (pulsar) Geminga with open star clusters in the OB association OriOB1a through the integration of epicyclic orbits into...
Title: Red Clump stars in the Bootes III stellar system Authors: M. Correnti, M. Bellazzini, F.R. Ferraro We report on the detection of a population of Red Clump (RC) stars probably associated with the recently discovered stellar system Bootes III. The RC is identified as a 3 sigma peak in the Lumino...
Hiiumaa, Estonia's second largest island, is said to have been created 455m years ago by a meteorite strike. Source The buried and well preserved Kärdla crater in Estonia (Southern Fennoscandia) (58°59'N, 22°40'E), with a...
An international team of physicists has found strong evidence for the existence of a new doubly magic nucleus with an unconventional configuration of neutrons. The oxygen24 nucleus is also the first doubly-magic nucleus that is very unstable against radioactive decay. In addition to shedding f...
Orbital elements: 2009 HB21 Earth MOID = 0.0821 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 43.52634 (2000.0) P Q n 0.43897493 Peri. 317.10843 -0.89135350 -0.35090549 a 1.7146530 Node 206.89021 +0.29822597 -0.93071109 e 0.4140335 Incl. 39.38311 -0.34139450 +0.10316107 P 2.25 H 23.0 G 0.15 U 9...
Orbital elements: 2009 HF21 Earth MOID = 0.0101 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 13.19266 (2000.0) P Q n 0.27597551 Peri. 188.65752 -0.72595502 +0.68643308 a 2.3364456 Node 34.81390 -0.62645938 -0.63456028 e 0.5658231 Incl. 4.26051 -0.28379209 -0.35516600 P 3.57 H 26.1 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," he asks, "has there been a blind spot t...
A mysterious "boom" that resounded across Vancouver early Friday may have been an extraterrestrial wakeup call, theorizes a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Vancouver. "I can't think of any other explanation, other than a fairly substantial gravel quarry explo...
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