Title: The chromospherically active binary star EI Eridani II. Long-term Doppler imaging Authors: A. Washuettl, K. G. Strassmeier, M. Weber Data from 11 years of continuous spectroscopic observations of the active RS CVn-type binary star EI Eridani - gained at NSO/McMath-Pierce, KPNO/Coude F...
Title: The L723 low mass star forming protostellar system: resolving a double core Authors: J. M. Girart, R. Rao, R. Estalella We present 1.35 mm SMA observations around the low-mass Class source IRAS 19156+1906, at the centre of the L723 dark cloud. We detected emission from dust as well as emissi...
HD 191760 b is an exoplanet which is about 1/3 the size of Jupiter and has a 8.5 day orbital period. HD 191760 c is an exoplanet which is about 7.2 times the size of Jupiter, with an eccentric orbit around 0.42 AU from its parent star.
A magnitude 15.2 supernova, 2008hi, was discovered on the 21th November, 2008, by Yoshimi Ichimura in the galaxy MCG -01-2-15 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 8" west and 3" south from the c...
During the middle of the 19th century the Government of Victoria voted the sum of £5000 for the construction of a large equatorial telescope to be erected at the Melbourne Observatory, Australia.
The construction of the grand instrument was entrusted to Mr.Grubb, F.R.S., of Dublin, Ireland....
Orbital elements: 2008 VL14 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU Epoch 2008 Oct. 21.0 TT = JDT 2454760.5 MPC M 21.92566 (2000.0) P Q n 0.40593730 Peri. 244.25891 +0.23451097 +0.97192218 a 1.8064672 Node 39.31947 -0.88063732 +0.22080266 e 0.7604285 Incl. 1.74401 -0.41168254 +0.08132322 P 2.43 H 21.1 G 0.15...
The Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be comet dust and debris around the white dwarf star G29-38, which died approximately 500 million years ago.
The findings suggest the dead star, which most likely consumed its inner planets, is still orbited by a ring of surviving comets...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 12:06:52 (UTC) on Friday, May 4, 2007, in the Ascension Islands region, 710 km North of Ascension Island, at a depth of 10 km. Location 1....
A huge meteorite crater has been discovered ten kilometres from an old opal mining town in the far west of New South Wales. Its an extraordinary find for the opal fields have been mined since eighteen ninety. Miners, pastoralists, tourists, and whoever has flown to the nearby airfield, have missed t...
Brazilian scientists found a 2.5-ton meteorite at a ranch in the central state of Goias, media outlets said Tuesday. The meteorite was spotted by farmers years ago at the ranch in the town of Campinorte, 300 kilometres from the state capital of Goiania, but the owner of the property assumed it was a m...
NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modelled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., used software called Disruption-Tol...
After 39 years the IAU returns to Prague and it is my great pleasure to invite you to attend this twenty-sixth General Assembly which will be taking place from August 14 to 25, 2006. 39 years is only a brief moment in Prague’s great astronomical history but it’s half the lifetime of the IAU.
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After hearing from residents of Alamogordo, White Oaks and Nogal, a representative from Holloman Air Force Base pledged to take another look at minimising supersonic booms from the F-22 Raptor. Lieutenant Col. Alexus Grynkewich, 49th Operations Support Squadron commander, told Lincoln Count...
Asian nations launch joint space satellite programme The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will join forces with engineers from nations across Asia in order to create a small experimental satellite to be launched into space in 2012. The agency hopes that this will lead to the creation of a...