The dwarf nova V1251 Cygni is in outburst. The brightening of the rarely-outbursting dwarf nova was reported by Hubert Hautecler and Eddy Muyllaert on the 19th October, 2008. The last outbursts were on September 25, 1997, and December 30, 1994. Date: 19th October, 2008. Magnitude: 12.4 Magnitu...
According to the National Institute of Space Investigations of Brazil (INEP) the second earth resource satellite, CBERS-2, developed jointly by Brazil and China, finished its five years' mission on Tuesday. The CBERS-2 was launched on Oct. 21, 2003 aboard a Chinese Long March 4B rocket from the...
Ancient geologic conditions in southern Sweden were ideal to preserve meteorites that fell to Earth about half a billion years ago. Researcher Birger Schmitz (working as a visiting professor at Rice University and now at the University of Lund, Sweden) and his colleagues in Göteborg, Sweden have...
Brazil hopes to have a basic version of a satellite transport rocket blasting off from its territory in 2011 after successful tests of one of the vehicle's engines this week, a report said. The information, given by the G1 news website run by the Globo news group, confirms Brazil's ambitions to join C...
Nehru Planetarium along with Amateur Astronomers' Association, Delhi, and Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators (SPACE) is organising a "Solar System Marathon" here on June 2. Through various telescopes and other observation aids, the participants...
An expedition in February 2008, co-led by veteran caver John Pollack, comprehensively mapped and photographed the 5.9-mile (9.5-kilometer) length of the little-known cavern for the first time. The spelunking team encountered some of the largest rooms and most impressive structures of any riv...
Congress has cancelled Pentagon plans to buy and launch two commercial imagery satellites to fill out its network of classified spy craft, according to military and space industry officials. House and Senate intelligence appropriations committees cut all funds for the satellite program durin...
Comet C/2008 R3 (LINEAR) was discovered on September 7, 2008 by the LINEAR monitoring telescope. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 26th November, 2008 at a distance of 1.798 Sun AU. [url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K08/K08R51.html]MPE...
Keen astronomers in Bromsgrove will now have a place to star-gaze with the launch of the towns first astronomical society tonight (Monday). Anyone and everyone is welcome to the open evening which takes place at the Bromsgrove Rugby Club and will involve presentations, an opportunity to use a tele...
Canada's McMaster University has received a stunning new piece of equipment - the world's most powerful electron microscope. John Preston, director of McMaster's Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research said, "The resolution of the Titan 80-300 Cubed microscope is remarkable, the e...
The universe and how it began... Scientists in Wales are hoping their research will help reveal information about the origins of the universe. Professor Bangalore Sathyaprakash of Cardiff University said he and his team were in the early stages of work which could help unlock its secrets. [url=ht...
The tools of the ancient observatory found in Baikmak Region of Bashkiria are still in running order. Scientists knew about the ancient site of settlement on the territory of Baishevskie barrows long ago, yet recently its analogy with the world-famous Stonehenge, the most ancient observatory on...
Police believe a meteorite has crashed near Alice Springs overnight. Residents at the remote Wallare Rock Hole Community report hearing a loud bang and feeling the ground shake at around 7:00pm local time Read more
Three of the east coast's lifeboats were called out on Friday night to reports of red flares north east of Lowestoft. Lifeboat crews from Lowestoft, Gorleston and Caister were launched just before 10pm after Yarmouth Coastguard received a call from a service boat working on the wind farm at Scroby S...
