China is likely to launch a new polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, Fengyun-3 (FY-3), this autumn to improve its global weather monitoring capacity, the China News Service has reported.
NASA has selected seven academic and research teams as initial members of the agency's Lunar Science Institute. The institute supports scientific research to supplement and extend existing NASA lunar science programs in coordination with U.S. space exploration policy. The selection of the me...
Researchers at Sony and the University of Alabama in Huntsville, the US, have developed a wide-angle camera that can image a 10 kilometre square area from an altitude of 7.5 kilometres with a resolution better than 50 centimetres per pixel. Generally, the field of view of high-resolution images ta...
NASA will hold a science update at 2 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 15, to discuss analysis of the Martian atmosphere that raises the possibility of life or geologic activity. The briefing will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., Washington, and carri...
The brilliant afterglow of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB) has enabled astronomers to probe the star-forming environment of a distant galaxy, resulting in the first detection of molecular gas in a GRB host galaxy. By analysing the spectrum of light emitted in the GRB afterglow, the researchers a...
Title: Blue Hook Stars in Globular Clusters Authors: A. Dieball, C. Knigge, T. J. Maccarone, K. S. Long, D. C. Hannikainen, D. Zurek, M. Shara Blue hook (BHk) stars are a rare class of horizontal branch stars that so far have been found in only very few Galactic globular clusters (GCs). The dominant me...
Shasta College has received a new all-sky meteor camera system for the benefit the region's students. Sandia National Laboratories has contracted with New Mexico University to build 40 systems, and Shasta College is one of the lucky schools across several states that is receiving this technolog...
A strange orange white light with a trail was seen hurtling across the sky by motorists near Marlow on Friday evening. Witness Marc Humphrey was driving along the A404 between Maidenhead and Marlow at about 7pm when he saw what he thought was a meteorite close to the ground. [url=http://www.maidenh...
Adopt a star from a non-profit and support scientific research A non-profit alternative: Many private companies offer to "sell" you a star name for $19.95, but here you can adopt a star that might host a planetary system for just $10! The Pale Blue Dot project is hosted by a non-profit orga...
When a suggestion was made some time ago that Vedic Mathematics should be introduced as a subject for study at the college level in India, there was a lot of derisive laughter among some of our pseudo-intellectuals, not to speak of ‘secularists’ whose knowledge of Sanskrit was questionable and a sen...
Orbital elements: 2008 YV32 Earth MOID = 0.0020 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 320.10985 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52564993 Peri. 40.10578 -0.90478340 -0.42553887 a 1.5205649 Node 114.70188 +0.38582579 -0.83580468 e 0.4118576 Incl. 1.06225 +0.18029270 -0.34691095 P 1.88 H 26.1 G 0.15 U 7 M...
Title: Discovery of two distinct red clumps in NGC419: a rare snapshot of a cluster at the onset of degeneracy Authors: Leo Girardi (1), Stefano Rubele (1,2), Leandro Kerber (3) ((1) Oss. Astron. Padova, (2) Dip. Astron. Padova (3), IAG-USP, Sao Paulo) Colour-magnitude diagrams (CMD) of the SMC st...
Washington Double Star catalogue number 14255-1958 Lunar Occultation (D) of quadruple star ZC2066Click to Play | View Details 20x70 binoculars can split this star in the constellation Libra, and reveal two blue stars. Apparent magnitude: 6.61 Distance: 142.653 parsecsPosition (J2000...
1820: Royal Observatory established in Cape Town long before Observatory, the suburb in which some of the buildings still stand, filled up with students and healing crystals. 1965: First images of Mars - 21 in total - taken by the Mariner IV spacecraft and received by a satellite tracking facility i...
