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Somewhere Beyond The SeaClick to Play | View Details Somewhere, beyond the sea somewhere, waiting for me my lover stands on golden sand and watches the ships that go sailing Somewhere, beyond the sea she's there, watching for me if I could fly like birds on high then straight to her heart I'll go sailin...
Title: SDSS J125637-022452: a high proper motion L subdwarf Authors: T. Sivarani, S. Lépine, A. K. Kembhavi, J. Gupchup We report the discovery of a high proper motion L subdwarf (\mu =0.617arcsec/yr) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey spectral database. The optical spectrum from the star SDSS J1256...
Title: A candidate tidal disruption event in the Galaxy cluster Abell 3571 Authors: N. Cappelluti, M. Ajello, P. Rebusco, S. Komossa, A. Bongiorno, C. Clemens, M. Salvato, P. Esquej, T. Aldcroft, J. Greiner, H. Quintana Tidal disruption events are possible sources of temporary nuclear activity...
The cool, rocky slopes of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is Hawaii's highest mountain, will serve as a stand-in for the moon as researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, NASA and other organizations test a robot designed for lunar prospecting. During the field experim...
The Toms Canyon impact crater is the site where one or more objects from space struck the Atlantic continental shelf, about 160 km east of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The crater dates to the late Eocene geological time period (about 35 million years ago). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craw...
Title: The Cosmic Horizon Authors: Fulvio Melia The cosmological principle, promoting the view that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, is embodied within the mathematical structure of the Robertson-Walker (RW) metric. The equations derived from an application of this metric to the Ei...
For the first time, a CSIRO radio telescope has been linked to others in China and Europe in real-time, demonstrating the power of high-speed global networks and effectively creating a telescope almost as big as the Earth. Last week a CSIRO telescope near Coonabarabran NSW was used simultaneously...
Canada's only major Arctic petroglyph site - a 1,500-year-old gallery of mysterious faces carved into a soapstone ridge on a tiny island off of Quebec's northern coast - has been ransacked by vandals in what the region's top archaeologist suspects was a religiously motivated attack by devout Chri...
Vietnam plans to launch its first orbit satellite March 29, 2008, reducing the country's reliance on leased foreign satellites for its communication traffic, an official said Tuesday. The satellite, dubbed Vinasat, is being built by US's Lockheed Martin and is scheduled to be launched from Fran...
A meteor was witnessed on Sunday evening at sunset. My friend said she saw what she thought was a bottle rocket or home-made firework in the eastern sky. Read more
Industrial Archaeologist reverse engineers the past with his scale and virtual models Bill Gould has built a 1/12 scale model a 3D CAD model of the 9" Dorpat telescope, built in Estonia in 1824 by Joseph von Fraunhofer for the Dorpat Observatory, which at the time was one of the largest telescop...
Snowshoe walks are scheduled at 10 a.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. Sundays from Jan. 17 through March 8. Meet at Black Canyon National Park South Rim visitor centre to experience winter at Black Canyon by snowshoeing with a ranger among the oaks, through open meadows and along the rim of the canyon. No speci...
UFO blamed for destruction of wind turbine Locals in Lincolnshire reported seeing mysterious glowing orbs in the evening sky shortly before the giant structure was wrecked. More mundane theories for the cause of the damage - from a block of frozen urine dropped by a passing plane, to simple mechani...
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