A new $20 million science museum will open early next year in north Georgia. The Tellus Northwest Georgia Science Museum plans to open its new 120,000-square-foot facility in Cartersville just north of Atlanta on Jan. 12. The museum will include a 120-seat planetarium and an observatory with a 20-...
By day Steven E. Mazlin tends to his patients, those with multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, brain tumors, and other neurological ailments. When darkness comes, another world beckons, luring Mazlin down a curving staircase into the basement of his palatial Upper Makefield home and out to his one-acr...
The Blackswift reusable hypersonic testbed has been cancelled by the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) after Congress slashed the programs fiscal 2009 budget to $10 million, from $120 million. Blackswift was to demonstrate an unmanned hypersonic vehicle able to take off,...
Boeing military satellite bid a 'must win,' analysts say The unit has been hurt by a drop in commercial sales. A contract to build the next generation of communication satellites could be worth $15 billion. Boeing is vying to build a new generation of military communication satellites known as TSAT...
A possible magnitude 16 supernova was observed by T. Kryachko and S. Korotkiy (Kazan State University Astrotel observatory ) in the spiral galaxy NGC 539 in the constellation Cetus (z=0.032), on the 10th October 2008. Position(2000): RA = 01 2523.04 ± 0.1, Dec = -18 10 20.8 ± 0.1
The impressive communications infrastructure called the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), set up by the Indian Space Research Organisation to transmit and receive signals from Chandrayaan 1, successfully tracked last week the Japanese lunar mission SELENE (Koguya), launched in 2007 and now o...
A geologist has found evidence that a vast rock slide may have set off a tsunami that buried a prehistoric village on Lake Mondsee in the Austrian Alps. According to a report in Spiegel Online, the theory that a severe rockslide in the Alps destroyed a prehistoric village, has been put forward by Alexa...
For 12 years, the Andromeda Society has been treating the public to the Starry Nights Festival. The Morongo Basins astronomy group loves to share its passion for the wonders of the heavens through mind-expanding lectures, eye-popping images, hands-on telescope viewing and rewarding raffles. T...
A balloon-borne telescope afloat in the stratosphere could offer a direct view of planets in other solar systems, says a team of researchers. If successful, the lofty scheme would deliver images of alien worlds impossible to see from the ground and all for a fraction of what it would cost to do the job...
Chess champion loses to computer
Deep Fritz, the world's leading chess computer, has beaten human counterpart world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik in a six-game battle in Bonn, Germany.
Kramnik said he would like a rematch in a year or two
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LBG J2135-0102 (also known as the "Cosmic Eye" due to its morphological similarity to the Egyptian "Eye of Horus") was discovered from a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image in an effort to survey high redshift galaxy clusters. This galaxy is a typical star-forming galaxy at z...
Today, the last day of World Space Week, marked the official opening of the exhibition 'Space the last frontier' by the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Jose Mariano Gago. One of the most impressive exhibits is a 1:10 scale model of the International Space Station,...
