HD 183263 is an 8th magnitude subgiant star located approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. HD 183263 c is an exoplanet about 4 x Jupiter's mass and with an orbital period of 8 Earth years. Read more
Cave gives a glimpse of glacial history Kirkdale Cave is one of North Yorkshires most intriguing assets and although it is very close to Kirkdale Minster near Kirkbymoorside, neither of these ancient showpieces is within the boundaries of the North York Moors National Park. I find that quite surpr...
Bulgarian astronomers found a new asteroid in the constellation Bull, bTV announced. The space object has a diameter of 2 kilometres and circles the Sun for a period of 3.2 years. The centre for small objects in the Solar system Harvard, USA admitted the existence of new asteroid temporarily marked...
There are side benefits to creating a massive light display on Park Point. In this case, it meant Marcia and Zach Hales were outside at Park Point, looking toward the lake, on the night of Nov. 26. The grandmother and grandson saw a bright white ball with a multi-coloured vapour tail trailing behind it...
MIT researchers have found an elegant solution to a sticky scientific problem in basic fluid mechanics: Why water doesn't soak into soil at an even rate, but instead forms what looks like fingers of fluid flowing downward. Scientists call these rivulets "gravity fingers," and the expl...
Space science is for common man: ISRO ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said the fishermen can now be told exactly in which part of the sea they should go to get boatloads of fish. The ISRO has developed a methodology to locate fish schools by reading sea surface temperature and analysing the ocean c...
Oxford marks 90th anniversary of the women's vote This month marks the 90th anniversary of the women's vote and to mark the anniversary, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has created a virtual free exhibition which includes the biographies of 25 prominent women. [url=http://www.ox.ac.u...
Microsoft: Virtual Earth 3D (Beta)
Virtual Earth 3D brings you another step closer to knowing "what it is like out there". You can search, browse, and organize local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world. This enables you to more effectively find the data...
Title: A photometric study of the southern Blazhko star SS For Unambiguous detection of quintuplet components Authors: Katrien Kolenberg, Elisabeth Guggenberger, Thebe Medupe, Patrick Lenz, Lukas Schmitzberger, Robert Shobbrook, Paul Beck, Boitumelo Ngwato, Jan Lub We present our analysi...
Title: Evolution of Anemone AR NOAA 10798 and the Related Geo-Effective Flares and CMEs Authors: Ayumi Asai, Kazunari Shibata, Takako T. Ishii, Mitsuo Oka, Ryuho Kataoka, Ken'ichi Fujiki, Nat Gopalswamy We present a detailed examination of the features of the Active Region (AR) NOAA 10798. This...
NASA will host a media teleconference Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 4 p.m. EST, to brief reporters about recent developments and ongoing progress in NASA's Constellation Program.
Near Trelew farm. The site is close to other ancient sites, stone circles and standing stones. Expand (98kb, 800 x 600) This 3m tall stone is located in a field to the south of Boscawen-ûn circle, within sight of St....
Orbital elements: 2007 DU103 Earth MOID = 0.3739 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 104.56112 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25504517 Peri. 293.71509 +0.07209844 +0.98734048 a 2.4625854 Node 338.90157 -0.71070501 -0.04852732 e 0.5015255 Incl. 23.10897 -0.69978583 +0.15100952 P 3.86 H 17.5 G 0.15...
The hottest white dwarf in its class A team of German and American astronomers present far-ultraviolet observations of white dwarf KPD 0005+5106 and reveal that it is among the hottest stars ever known with a temperature of 200 000 K at its surface. Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing this d...
