An army helicopter, a meteor or something more sinister? Mystery surrounds the sighting of a bright light in the sky above Inverness in the early hours yesterday. John and Mary MacDonald, of Balnafettack Road, Scorguie, Inverness, became transfixed by a blue and red glow, which they say was "...
An amateur astronomer could have finally unravelled the mystery of the ancient Hurlers on Bodmin Moor. The three stone circles in Cornwall have been discovered to align perfectly with the constellation Orion. New research now suggests The Hurlers were built as a primitive calendar which indicat...
Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun using France's Corot space telescope. A team writing in Science journal says the sounds have enabled them to get information about processes deep within stars for the first time. If you listen closely to the sounds of each star you'...
Title: Redshifts and lens profile for the double quasar QJ 0158-4325 Authors: C. Faure, T. Anguita, A. Eigenbrod, J.-P. Kneib, V. Chantry, D. Alloin, N. Morgan, G. Covone We report on the redshift of the lensing galaxy and of the quasar QJ 0158-4325 and on the lens model of the system. A deep VLT/FORS2...
Title: SDSS J162718.39+120435.0 - a dwarf nova in the period gap Authors: Jeremy Shears, Steve Brady, Boris Gaensicke, Tom Krajci, Ian Miller, Yenal Ogmen, Jochen Pietz, Bart Staels SDSS J162718.39+120435.0 was suspected of being a dwarf nova from spectroscopic observations made available by...
Title: B2 0902+34: A Collapsing Protogiant Elliptical Galaxy at z=3.4 Authors: Joshua J Adams, Gary J. Hill, Phillip J. MacQueen We have used the visible integral-field replicable unit spectrograph prototype (VIRUS-P), a new integral field spectrograph, to study the spatially and spectrally...
A fireball blazed across the skies above Hertford on Sunday night. The UFO sped across the sky at just after 8.30pm. "It travelled south and I tracked it for about two minutes. It was at quite a height, bright orange and had shots of what looked like orange flame that shot from the sides or top every...
At least a half-dozen Oregonians - three in the Portland area and three on the High Desert - saw a bright fireball flash across the northern sky Thursday evening, a dramatic sight similar to several other widely viewed fireballs sighted across the Northwest over the past year or so. All of the sightin...
As if people living in the world's major earthquake zones don't have enough to worry about, a new analysis of two of the biggest quakes of the past century reveals a sharp spike in volcanic eruptions after the events, sometimes in volcanoes located hundreds of kilometers from the epicenters. The res...
OGLE2-TR-L9 b is a hot-Jupiter type exoplanet that's about 4.5x Jupiter size, and has a quick 2.4855-day orbital period. OGLE2-TR-L9 b was discovered in 2007. Source
Orbital elements: 2006 QR181 Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 34.89189 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00308464 Peri. 31.25921 +0.78342977 +0.60066412 a 46.7376470 Node 290.97785 -0.59962707 +0.66310456 e 0.2029489 Incl. 9.83566 -0.16335596 +0.44664858 P 320 H 7.0 G 0.15 U 5 MPEC 2008 -X67
Orbital elements: 2007 VJ302 Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 351.68383 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00346596 Peri. 328.87793 +0.87733358 -0.46188624 a 43.2434783 Node 59.18116 +0.46553986 +0.75337542 e 0.0692741 Incl. 8.71881 +0.11644066 +0.46806685 P 284 H 6.7 G 0.15 U 5 MPEC 2008 -X69
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Dogs, like people and monkeys, seem to have a sense of fairness. "Animals react to inequity. To avoid stress, we should try to avoid treating them differently" - Friederike Range of the University of Vienna, Austria, who lead a team of researchers testing animals at the school's Clever D...
A Type Ia magnitude 14.6 (and rising) supernova, 2007gi, was discovered on the 31th July, 2007, by Koichi Itagaki in the regular lenticular galaxy NGC 4036 in the constellation ursa major. The supernova is located 23" west and 11" south of the centre of the galaxy. [url=http://farm2.st...
