Villagers in the area around the city of Sibu in the Malaysian State of Sarawak on the island of Borneo got a real surprise when they looked up into the sky on January 17 2009. They noticed a slightly luminous, bright pink disc travelling across the sky. "We were standing in front of my home when I lo...
Title: The Camera of the MAGIC-II Telescope Authors: C.C. Hsu, A. Dettlaff, D. Fink, F. Goebel, W. Haberer, J. Hose, R. Maier, R. Mirzoyan, W. Pimpl, O. Reimann, A. Rudert, P. Sawallisch, J. Schlammer, S. Schmidl, A. Stipp, M. Teshima The MAGIC 17m diameter Cherenkov telescope will be upgraded with...
ESO, the European Southern Observatory, will host two press events during the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (JENAM 2009) that takes place at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. The two events are scheduled for the morning of Tuesday 21 April 2009. At 11:00 BST, a press conference wi...
The 43 - 95 metre wide asteroid 2009 FT32 made a close pass (35.8 Lunar Distances, 0.0921 AU), travelling at 12.38km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th April 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance betwe...
This time of year, in the rich star fields of the deep southern constellation Carina, youll find numerous sights to hold your attention. Today we tour the Theta Carinae cluster, also called the "Southern Pleiades" because of its astronomical resemblance to the famed northern star clu...
A remote South Atlantic volcano, trapped under polar ice, is erupting in spectacular fashion.
This is the first time that researchers have had a chance to watch an Antarctic lava flow in action.
"I'd give my right arm to be down there now. It's very rare that we get to make direct observati...
An unusual large galaxy with a shape bordering between spiral and elliptical has been spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7049 sits in the southern constellation Indus, and is the brightest of a cluster of galaxies, a so-called brightest cluster galaxy. Typical BCGs are some of the oldes...
The "Big Bang" on Sunday night now appears to have been caused by a meteor, not a leftover bit of Russian rocket. The Joint Space Operations Centre at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California issued a statement Tuesday morning saying it tracks more than 19,000 manmade objects in space. &qu...
Title: New insights on the binary asteroid 121 Hermione Authors: P. Descamps, F. Marchis, J. Durech, J. Emery, A.W. Harris, M. Kaasalainen, J. Berthier, J.-P. Teng-Chuen-Yu, A. Peyrot, L. Hutton, J. Greene, J. Pollock, M. Assafin, R. Vieira-Martins, J.I.B. Camargo, F. Braga-Ribas, F. Vachier,...
Stellar ParallaxClick to Play | View Details This animation shows (in an exaggerated fashion) the effects that the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun has on apparent star position. Notice how some stars appear to shift out of position as our vantage point changes along Earth's orbit..
The emerging nation India is building Asia's largest imaging telescope at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains, northeast of New Delhi. It should be ready for use and set its focus on the universe over the northern hemisphere by 2012. With a 3.7 meter mirror made of the glass ceramic "Zerodur&qu...
In a paper published in the March 19, 2009 issue of Science Express, Justyn Maund and Stephen Smartt present data from the Gemini Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that confirms the disappearance of the progenitors of two Type II supernovae (SNe). The only other supernova progenitor of...
Certainly one of the strangest objects in our Milky Way galaxy has been hiding as a variable X-ray source called SAX J1808.4-3658. This X-ray binary has been known to contain an accretion-powered millisecond pulsar located at a distance of 3,500 parsec (~11,500 light-years). It was also the first...
The Russian military has successfully tested what it described as the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb, Russia's state television reported, the latest show of the nation's military muscle amid chilly relations with the United States. Channel One television said on Tuesda...
International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the W2A satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1...
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