MESSENGER Team to Receive National Space Club Award The National Space Club will award the MESSENGER team its Nelson P. Jackson Aerospace Award this evening at the 52nd annual Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C. The award, named in honour of the National Space Club's founder a...
The phone call came in early April, directing ASU's Jim Rice to come to Houston in a few weeks' time. He will be heading to NASA's Johnson Space Centre on his third attempt to become an astronaut. Once again, he'll be poked, prodded, queried, analysed, and sifted, all in the quest to join those with the R...
Volcanic Activity on Pagan Island released a plume of ash and/or steam in early December 2006.
The Terra satellite captured this image of the volcano on December 6, 2006. In this image, the plume appears slightly darker than the nearby cloud cover. While the clouds are white, the plume is pale beig...
The HOT BIRD 7A broadcasting satellite built by Alcatel Alenia Space for Eutelsat Communications has arrived at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana.
The satellite's scheduled launch date is 21 February 2006 on-board an Ariane 5 ECA rocket.
HOTBIRD7A will be positioned...
A primary school teacher has spoken of her amazement after spotting what she believes to be a UFO while out walking her dogs with her husband. Penny Martin, of Little Earnock, spotted an unusual object in the sky on Saturday night about 10.15pm. Penny described an orange-yellow object floating moti...
Title: Discovery of a bright radio transient in M82: a new radio supernova? Authors: A. Brunthaler (1), K.M. Menten (1), M.J. Reid (2), C. Henkel (1), G.C. Bower (3), H. Falcke (4,5) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) UC Berkele...
Title: What is the closest black hole to the Sun? Authors: C. Foellmi (Version v3) We examine the distance of the two galactic microquasars GRO J1655-40 and A0620-00, which are potentially the two closest black holes to the Sun. We aim to provide a picture as wide and complete as possible of the proble...
The Motherland Calls, also called The Mamayev Monument is a statue in Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad. Read more
The 770 - 1700 metre wide asteroid 2003 SG170 is to make a flyby (57.7 Lunar Distances, 0.1484 AU), travelling at 26.66km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th April 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance...
The 11 - 25 metre wide asteroid 2008 VC is to make a flyby (73.8 Lunar Distances, 0.1896 AU), travelling at 4.4km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th April 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Eart...
Astronomers have completed the most detailed survey of 110,000 galaxies in the nearby universe, which will not only reveal their locations but also where they're heading, how fast and why. "It's like taking a snapshot of wildebeest on the African plain. We can tell which waterholes they're h...
One of the world's leading theoretical physicists will be visiting Cardiff University to give a free public lecture (16 April 2009). Professor Kip Thorne will deliver a lecture, organised by the School of Physics and Astronomy, on 'The Warped Side of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes an...
Title: The Monoceros radio loop: temperature, brightness, spectral index and distance Authors: V. Borka Jovanovi, D. Uroevi In this paper we estimated the temperatures and brightnesses of the Monoceros radio loop at 1420, 820 and 408 MHz. Linear spectrum is estimated for mean temperatures vers...
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has signed an agreement with CONAE, Argentina's National Commission on Space Activity, for two launches aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy lift vehicle. The flights will send the SAOCOM 1A and 1B Earth observation satellites into sun-synchrono...
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