* Astronomy

Shortly after 22.30 on Saturday, Siri Wettainen experience something unusual. Just outside her window she believes are the fragments of the meteor that lit up the evening sky. "I saw it clearly and it was more than ten meters from my house" - Siri from Parakka. Siri was sitting watching TV...

This fall, Lakehead University students are getting out of the classroom and into the heavens. For the first time, the Department of Physics will help students develop hands-on skills in observational astronomy. The course, taught by Lakehead Engineering professor Dr. Lionel Catalan, and Ran...

For the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects the fireball dropped meteorites in a region north of Guelph, Ont. that may total as much as a few hundred grams in mass. [url=ht...

The Battle of Brunanburh Her Aethelstan cyning, eorla dryhten, beorna beag-giefa, and his brothor eac, Eadmund aetheling, ealdor-langetir geslogon aet saecce sweorda ecgum ymbe Brunanburh. Bord-weall clufon, heowon heathu-linde hamora lafum eaforan Eadweardes, swa him ge-aethele waes fr...

Wedged in between the bright star Fomalhaut (pronounced fo-ma-lo) to the south and the glittering Pleiades star cluster to the east is the huge, lumbering constellation of Cetus, the Whale. It ranks fourth in overall size among the 88 official constellations; only Hydra, Ursa Major and Virgo cove...

Wondering where are the world's starriest skies? "Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2009" guide lists the best places to eye the heavens. Read more

Tropical Storm Paloma is forecast to make landfall in the Cayman Islands in about 31 hours probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% probability for TS is 65% George Town (19.3 N, 81.4 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% probability for TS is 65%

Today's "Word of the Day" is ferrofluid. It's what chemists call a suspension of extremely small iron-based particles in some kind of liquid. The result is a room-temperature fluid with magnetic properties. So why are you reading about this here and not in the Chemistry Junkies Forum? B...

On September 22, 1979 an aging satellite named Vela 6911 detected two very distinct flashes in the vicinity of the Indian or South Atlantic oceans that supposedly could be only one thing: a nuclear detonation. The Carter administration held an emergency meeting, other satellites were enlisted to...

Front Range to open observatory Astronomy faculty and students at Front Range Community College will celebrate the opening of a new observatory on the Westminster campus with a public "Star Party" at 6 p.m. Nov. 17, which is a peak night for the Leonid meteor shower. [url=http://www.br...

2008 VR4 Earth Impact Risk Summary Torino Scale (maximum) Palermo Scale (maximum) -5.33 Palermo Scale (cumulative) -4.44 Impact Probability (cumulative) 2.0e-06 Number of Potential Impacts 198 Vimpact 18.24 km/s Vinfinity 14.44 km/s H 22.8 Diameter 0.095 km Mass 1.2e+09 kg Energy 4.7e+01 MT...

A Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile configured with a National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, joint-test assembly, launched at 3:04 a.m. May 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch was an extended range test which proved the weapon system's reliability and acc...

Hubble Announces A Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery NASA will hold a Science Update to report on a significant discovery about planets orbiting other stars at 2:30 p.m. EST, Thursday, Nov. 13, in NASA's James E. Webb auditorium. This unique discovery, made by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanc...

The Big Sky Astronomical Society will be holding the grand opening celebration of their new observatory on Saturday, October 18, 2008. Read more

NAU Telescope gets an upgrade After three years of planning and fundraising, NAU has a brand new technologically advanced telescope. It's called the "Barry L. Lutz Telescope for Education and Training," and it's designated for community members and NAU students. [url=http://www.a...