A United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket will launch the 23rd and final Defence Support Program missile-warning satellite, from SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on April 1st.
The launch window exte...
A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2009K, was discovered by Pignata et al. (CHASE) on the 14th January, 2009, in the spiral galaxy NGC 1620 in the constellation Eridanus. The supernova is located 9" west and 2" north from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 04h36m36s.77, Dec. = -0...
If you want to learn more about the solar system but you're too old for "Rusty Rocket's Last Blast," Parkland College's Staerkel Planetarium has a new show for you. "The Planets" is the first show covering the entire solar system and aimed at adults that the Planetarium has off...
Three Chinese taikonauts were awarded 800,000 yuan (US$117,000) each on Wednesday by the Tsang Hin Chi Manned Space Foundation in Hong Kong. The foundation issued the Special Contribution Awards to taikonauts Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, and Jing Haipeng. In 2003, Tsang, a business leader in Hong K...
Strange lights have once again been spotted in the night sky above Wrexham - this time over a nursing home. The most recent photograph was taken by Janet White at about 7.15pm on Friday, outside Emerald House, a nursing home on Chester Road, Wrexham. The sighting will no doubt fuel further speculatio...
Upheaval Dome is an impact crater in Canyonlands National Park, near the town Moab (Utah, United States). It is 10 km in diameter and the crater is estimated to be less than 170 million years old (Jurassic or younger). The crater is clearly visible on the surface as bright brown and black coloured conc...
The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass). Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This Hubble image was taken i...
University of Toronto quantum physicists Jeff Lundeen and Aephraim Steinberg have shown that Hardy's paradox, a proposal that has confounded physicists for over a decade, can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had seemingly been impossible to perform. "For nearly a centur...
ESA Director General to meet the press in Paris On Wednesday 14 January 2009, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain will meet the press at ESA Headquarters in Paris. The gathering will start at 08:30 with breakfast, followed at 09:00 by a press briefing to review the Agency's activities in 200...
US Defence Department officials have launched "Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military," an online radio show. Armed with Science: Research and Applications for the Modern Military, is a bi-monthly webcast that discusses various applications of scie...
Celebrate International Year of Astronomy 2009 by Controlling a real Telescope - The MicroObservatory online telescope network. You can now explore the universe using working telescopes that you control via the Internet free of charge, and have access to your image within 48 hours. Each of the ea...
A mysterious object spotted sailing across the sunny skies of Purley has left residents and a UFO expert scratching their heads. The blurry entity was snapped by John Barrett, 48, as he was walking across Higher Drive Recreation Ground at about 1.25pm last Friday. [url=http://www.thisiscroydon...
The Eqyptians will be constructing a facility modelled after Purdue University's Terrestrial Observatory which will be used to provide early warning and mitigate the effects of disasters such as epidemics, famine and flooding to be built in Egypt as part of a NATO-funded effort. Courtesy of fund...
The idea of a graveyard orbit for dead satellites so as to limit space debris may not be very practical now, according to French space policy expert Isabelle Soubes Verger. She was in the city last weekend to participate in a conference at the VSSC, Thumba that was organised by the Alliance Francaise i...
A technology development engine that may help NASA safely return astronauts to the lunar surface has successfully completed its third round of testing. The goal of these tests is to reduce risk and advance technology for a reliable and robust rocket engine that could enable America's next moon lan...
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