The New Mexico Spaceport Authority and Alamogordo White Sands Regional Airport officials are discussing the possibility of conducting an infrastructure study to possibly hold the 2009 X Prize Lunar Lander Challenge and related events at the airport in Alamogordo. Alamogordo Airport coordina...
A SL-6 rocket booster, from a Molniya 8K78M Launch Vehicle, that was launched from the Russian Plesetsk launch site south of Archangelsk, on the 28th August 1990, for the Cosmos 2097 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 19th October, 2008 @ 03:53 GMT ± 18 Hours. TLE Data [p...
Eminent physicist C.V.Raman, one of the big names in modern astronomy, will be remembered through a centre for basic astronomy opening here next week. A project of the Kerala State Science and Technology Museum and Priyadarshini Planetarium, the C.V.Raman Centre for Basic Astronomy will offer c...
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PrJsc (Yahsat) today announced the launch of a revolutionary satellite broadband internet service YahClick that will be offered for the first time in many countries of the Middle East, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South West Asia. The service wi...
Joe Thompson has been gazing up at the stars for 45 years. The amateur astronomer started with a 6-inch telescope bought with savings from a newspaper route job, which he quit as soon as he had saved the $249. He now enjoys five telescopes of varying sizes and his very own observatory in his back yard. Th...
Amateur Oregon astronomers build their own telescope, which will be accessible remotely Deep in Oregon's coastal foothills, where stars splatter the sky like freckles, amateur astronomers are closing in on a dream three decades old. To understand their mission, drive west of Portland, through...
Astronomers taking a second look at a distant galaxy have found it is actually a pair of colliding galaxies, each harbouring a supermassive black hole at its centre. The existence of the black holes, which were fully formed less than 2 billion years after the big bang, suggests that these giant objec...
It's called "buckypaper" and looks a lot like ordinary carbon paper, but don't be fooled by the cute name or flimsy appearance. It could revolutionise the way everything from airplanes to TVs are made. Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when she...
The Australian outback finally revealed a nearly two-decades-old secret in July when a launch vehicle rocket motor casing was found during a routine muster of cattle on a three-million-acre pastoral property. First spotted by Mr. Arthur Taylor while flying a Cessna airc...
Come celebrate the Sedona Night Sky. Look through powerful telescopes at Jupiter, Venus, galaxies and other celestial objects while enjoying a beautiful evening under the Sedona stars. Guests are invited to wear costumes and bring jack-o-lanterns; prizes will be awarded for "best of&qu...
The Bandung Geology Museum was established in 1929, under Dutch leadership, and from the get go was intended to be a place of research and learning. This continues to be reflected as the displays and guiding notes that run throughout the museum are informative, well-prepared and captivatingly pre...
A tiny satellite made by students of Tokyo Metropolitan College of Industrial Technology's Arakawa Campus in Arakawa Ward will be loaded onto the H-2A rocket scheduled to be launched in January from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. Residents, companies and shops in Arakawa...
Title: The Arcturus Moving Group: Its Place in the Galaxy Authors: Mary E. K. Williams, Ken C. Freeman, Amina Helmi, the RAVE collaboration The Arcturus moving group is a well-populated example of phase space substructure within the thick disk of our Galaxy. Traditionally regarded as the remains...
