* Astronomy

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The two brightest planets in the night sky make a spectacular pairing near months' end. As November begins, find Venus brilliantly shining in the southwestern sky as evening twilight darkens. During the month, Venus, shining at a magnitude of -4.0, will climb higher in the sky each night. Jupiter s...

A magnitude 16.4 Type Ia supernova was discovered by the Plaskett Telescope (Catalina Sky Survey) on the 22nd November 2008 in a faint anonymous galaxy. Position(2000): RA 09:43:26.22 Dec 25:10:21.9 z=0.027

A new Danish observatory on a remote island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean will provide researchers with new knowledge about the mysterious irregularity of the Earths magnetic field known as the South Atlantic Anomaly. The observatory is a partnership between DMI, the Danish Meteorological...

Title: The puzzling MILAGRO hot spots Authors: Luke Drury, Felix Aharonian We discuss the reported detection by the MILAGRO experiment of localised hot spots in the cosmic ray arrival distribution and the difficulty of interpreting these observations. A model based on secondary neutron produc...

They say timing is everything. Boy, were we lucky. Our Queen Anne Tower camera just happened to be rolling on air during KOMO 4 News at 5 a.m. and captured a meteor fireball streaking across the Seattle sky. Read more

Some lucky people across B.C. were treated to an amazing light show Tuesday afternoon when a bright object streaked across the twilight sky. Three witnesses in the Vancouver area told CBC News they saw the object blaze through the sky around 4:35 p.m. PT., for about one or two seconds. [url=http://w...

Alkali metals Click to Play | View Details The alkali metals are a series of chemical elements comprising Group 1 (IUPAC style) of the periodic table: lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), caesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). (Hydrogen, although nominally also a member of Group 1, v...

Cyclonic storm Nisha in the Southwest Bay of Bengal has developed this morning and is currently located close to the Tamil Nadu coast near Vedaranniyam, India. Read more

The Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) aboard the Swift satellite has detected a previously unknown galactic transient. The source, Swift J1539.2-6227, was first detected with a daily average rate of 0.024 ±0.010 counts/sec/cm² (100 mcrab) in the 15-50 keV band on November 24, 2008.

Edwin Salpeter, whose theories revolutionised astrophysics, died at his home in Ithaca Nov. 25. He was 83. Read more

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South Korea plans to launch a maritime communication and weather satellite into space in June 2009, South Koreas Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said on Sunday. According to the ministry, the satellite was developed jointly by Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) and Fran...

Orbital elements: 2008 WC Earth MOID = 0.0052 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 350.74611 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39529693 Peri. 220.65023 -0.16588144 -0.98554132 a 1.8387404 Node 238.92456 +0.91489426 -0.14073751 e 0.4919160 Incl. 2.30990 +0.36803782 -0.09434648 P 2.49 H 26.3 G 0.15 U 9 MP...

The cataclysmic variable V358 Lyrae is in outburst. Date: 23rd November 2008 Magnitude: 16 - 22 Period: ? Satellite period: ? Type: UGWZ The last known outburst was in 1965 Position(2000): RA 18:59:32.96, Dec +42:24:12.0