Pioneering JPL radar astronomer Steven J. Ostro died early in the morning of December 15, 2008. The world has lost one of the most skilled scientists tracking and studying the asteroids that pass close by our planet and might one day threaten the survival of our civilization. [url=http://planetar...
Ahead of the Saturday opening of its new Teck Suite of Galleries - which will display rocks, gems and other hard stuff - the Royal Ontario Museum announced a last-minute addition to its rock lineup Tuesday: A 9.6-kilogram moon meteorite recovered from northwest Africa, now part of the Hupé Collecti...
At today's IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, IMEC presents a monolithically integrated 11 megapixel micro-mirror array for high-end industrial applications, a world's first both in terms of pixel density and reliability. Each mirror in the array is 8µm x 8µm and can be individually...
A UFO has once again been seen performing aerobatics above the Herald patch. A multicoloured ball of light was seen by a startled Cheshunt couple, who videoed the 'close encounter of the third kind' on a mobile phone. Mary Georgiou, of Southmead Crescent, contacted the Herald after reading our stor...
Pupils and parents at a Barnsley school had stars in their eyes when they enjoyed an astronomy day. The event at Birdwell Primary was funded by a grant from the Institute of Physics, which paid for a giant Star Dome planetarium to be installed in the school hall. All the pupils were given a demonstratio...
Some people were convinced the fire was caused by what may have been a meteorite, which was seen from various parts of the upper North Island streaking across the sky just after 10 o'clock. Several callers claim the light in the sky was very bright, and it was described by some as a blinding flash. Other...
Located in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Sichuan Province, the Xichang Satellite Launch Center is designed mainly to launch powerful thrust rockets and geostationary satellites. Known for its agreeable weather and picturesque scenes, most pictures shown on Chi...
The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center was founded in March 1966 and came into full operation in 1968. Situated in Kelan County, the northwest part of Shanxi Province, 284 km away from Taiyuan City, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre (TSLC) is commissioned for sun-synchronous missions and thus sup...
The pioneering Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS) based at the Daresbury Laboratory in Warrington, UK, will be switched off on Monday. Read more http://srs.dl.ac.uk/srsinfo/statusdisplay.html Latitude: 53.3427...
12 November 2008, 14.00 We have set the clocks back an hour and are approaching halfway. During our first watch of the night we were privileged to witness the most incredible meteor a large yellow highlighter that traversed the whole night panorama. [url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/app...
Russian space engineers think they are closing in on the cause of two dangerous off-course Soyuz landings in the past year, but recent activities suggest there is still a dispute about the leading theory. Top space officials have asserted that the problemthe failure of one or more explosive bolts...
The two faintest star-like objects ever found, a pair of twin "brown dwarfs" each just a millionth as bright as the sun, have been spotted by a team led by MIT physicist Adam Burgasser. "These brown dwarfs are the lowest power stellar light bulbs in the sky that we know of" - Adam B...
Lake Jiaming "The God's tear" is a meteor crater in Taitung, Taiwan. Jiaming lake, in front of Sancha (three forks) Mountain in the southern section of the Central Mountains, was possibly formed million years ago by a meteor impact. The oval-shaped lake, the highest alpine lake in Taiwa...
The Israeli Astronomical Association was established first as an amateur fellowship on May 28th 1951 by a group of astronomy fans immigrating from Germany and Czechoslovakia, among them Dr Heilbruner and Dr Zaichik. Dr Zaichik was the first chairman of the association and kept his position for ma...
POLENET or The Polar Earth Observing Network is a consortium involving people from 28 nations that aims to dramatically improve the coverage of many different kinds of geophysical data across the polar regions of the Earth. It has been endorsed as a core activity of the International Polar Year (IP...
