'UFO cloud' spotted over Wales Meteorologists may finally have solved the mystery surrounding UFOs spotted over Britain's skies. Met Office forecaster Bob Syvret said the unusual formation was a lee wave which can be popular with gliders because they can help them to gain altitude or fly long dist...
John Goss of the Astronomical League will be the featured speaker for the 2009 Regional Meeting of Amateur Astronomers at Gardner-Webb University Saturday in Ritch Banquet Hall, located in the Dover Campus Centre. This free event opens at 8 a.m. with the program starting at 10 a.m. and concluding a...
Travel 70 kilometres south west of Toowoomba, look up and find a stargazing paradise. The sleepy town of Leyburn has a worldwide reputation for its night skies, one which Southern Astronomical Society president Noeleen Lowndes wants to light up in the International Year of Astronomy. Amateur sta...
On Oct 27 SES president and CEO Romain Bausch had said that Astra 5A, which should have been operating from 31.5 deg East, had suffered a few problems and that "human error" could not be ruled out. Now, happily, Astra 5A (also known as Sirius 2) has been recovered and is back on station, and wo...
On January 17, the JTWC identified a rapidly organising tropical low just of the coast of Madagascar, near Antananarivo, in the Mozambique Channel. The system showed signs of a quickly developing surface low, and evidence of an upper-level Anticyclone creating a favourable environment for the s...
The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed a steady increase in the gamma-ray activity from the blazar 0917+449. This object, with redshift z=2.19, was detected previously by EGRET as 3EG 0917+4427 Position (2000): RA=09h20m58.4...
On January 17, the Meteo-France in Reunion identified a Zone of Disturbed Weather northeast of La Reunion. The following day the disturbance organised quite significantly west-northwest of Madagascar and Metéo-France classified it as a tropical disturbance. The disturbance intensified int...
The Independent reports that the discovered vessel off the coast of Sicily, which is believed to be 2,500 years old, will be partial reconstructed and preserved by team of experts at the Mary Rose Centre in Portsmouth. The project will last 10 years. [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sci...
A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times. At the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, University of Leicester archaeologist Simon James presented CSI-style argumen...
Title: The dusty Nebula surrounding HR Car: a Spitzer view Authors: G. Umana, C. S. Buemi, C. Trigilio, J. L. Hora, G. G. Fazio, P. Leto We present mid-IR observations of the Galactic Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) HR Car and its associated nebula carried out with the Spitzer Space Telescope using both...
A Molniya-M SL-6 Stage 3 Rocket Body that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the 20th May 1982, for the Kosmos 1367 (US-K #26) mission is predicted to re-enter the earths atmosphere on the 18th January 2009 @ 08:16 GMT ± 8 hours. TLE Data pre>SL-6 RB(2) 1 13215U 82045D 09017.78779440 .12771...
Vital evidence has been discovered which could prove Colchester was a major settlement more than 2,000 years ago. Experts from the Colchester Archaeological Trust have been digging at Colchester Institute which is undergoing a radical £92 million redevelopment. And they have found artefacts w...
Mathematician Andrew Hicks was in his Drexel University office, puzzling over some problem he can no longer recall, when colleague Ron Perline walked in with a challenge. Fresh from his morning bicycle ride, Perline was unhappy with the rearview mirror mounted on his handlebars. Its tiny surface...
The first survey of Loch Lomond in 147 years has found Scotland's most famous loch is 600 feet deep in places with sheer cliffs lining an underwater canyon. The British Geological Survey used the latest technology -- multi-beam sonar -- to map the floor of Loch Lomond, The Scotsman reported. The last...
