* Astronomy

Title: Chandra Observations of Nuclear X-ray Emission from Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Authors: M. Das, C. S. Reynolds, S. N. Vogel, S. S. McGaugh, N. G. Kantharia We present Chandra detections of x-ray emission from the AGN in two giant Low Surface Brightness (LSB) galaxies, UGC 2936 and UGC 1...

The weather is among the reasons why Inverness has been selected for a planned computer complex offering data storage for people and businesses. IT firm Alchemy Plus, an expert in Microsoft technology, is behind the £20m "cloud computing" project, earmarked for the city harbour. The r...

A possible nova in Sagittarius was discovered by W. Liller from Chile on the 29th November, 2008. Position(2000): RA: 18 22 00, Dec: -28 03 00 IMAGE CBET 1591

V679 CARINAE = NOVA CARINAE 2008 Position(2000): RA 11h 13m 54s Dec -61o 14' 00" IAUC 8999 (Subscription)

The Yaogan 4 satellite atop a Long March 2D rocket was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 04:42 GMT (12:42 pm Beijing time Monday). The Yaogan 4 satellite will be used for scientific research and disaster monitoring.

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Title: The open cluster Pismis 11 and the very luminous blue supergiant HD 80077 Authors: Amparo Marco, Ignacio Negueruela The very luminous blue supergiant HD 80077 has been claimed to be a member of the young open cluster Pismis 11, and hence a hypergiant. We obtained UBVRI photometry of the clust...

Title: Light Curve Morphology Study of UW CrB -- Evidence for a 5 d Superorbital Period Authors: Pasi Hakala, Linnea Hjalmarsdotter, Diana C. Hannikainen, Panu Muhli Since its discovery in 1990, UW CrB (also known as MS1603+2600) has remained a peculiar source without firm classification. Our cu...

Title: A Planet in a 0.6-AU Orbit Around the K0 Giant HD 102272 Authors: A. Niedzielski, K. Go\' zdziewski, A. Wolszczan, M. Konacki, G. Nowak, P. Zieliski We report the discovery of one or more planet-mass companions to the K0-giant HD 102272 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any co...

NWA 4880 Important Offering of an Oriented Meteorite from Mars SNC - Balsaltic Shergottite (Mars Rock) Sahara Desert, Algeria Worthy of the world's foremost natural history museums, the current offering is the largest intact oriented meteorite from the planet Mars known to exist. At one time thr...

A magnitude 15.1 supernova, 2008eh, was discovered on the 21st July 2008, by B Monard in the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 2997 in the constellation Antlia. The supernova is located 123E 34N from the centre of the galaxy. [url=http://farm4...

One of nature's greatest mysteries may have been solved after scientists revealed a new theory on how salmon find their way home. Every year, 20 million of them leave Scottish rivers and travel thousands of miles to Norway and Greenland to feed. Remarkably, they then return to Scotland, often to wit...

Dr. Wilhelm Raithel, one of the original members of Dr. Wernher von Braun's team of German rocket scientists, died Nov. 15 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 95. Raithel was born in Hoechst an der Nidder in Germany and later worked as a civil engineer in Munich. In World War II, a civilian draft order a...

A Russian Soyuz rocket with the Progress M-01M/31P cargo ship is to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, to the International Space Station, at 12:38 GMT, 26th November.

2007 FV42 = 1991 RQ32 Orbital elements: 2007 FV42 = 1991 RQ32 Earth MOID = 0.1287 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 158.44837 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30709608 Peri. 181.65336 +0.21980454 +0.96103014 a 2.1758045 Node 101.06864 -0.89307205 +0.26738420 e 0.4728994 Incl. 9.83604 -0.39256628 -0...