Pollution Telescope Sees First Light A new telescope to study light pollution over the City of Armagh took its first pictures of the sky from the roof of the Armagh Observatory on Tuesday October 7th. The telescope will check that the night sky is getting darker as the city's efforts to reduce light po...
A woman was roused from her sleep when ice crashed through her home's roof, injuring her. Mary Ann Foster suddenly awoke about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday with a bump on her head and insulation hanging down from the ceiling just above her bed. The 66-year-old crawled out of bed and went downstairs to tell her h...
A possible magnitude 13.9 Supernova was discovered on the 9th October, 2006, by Koichi Itagaki; Tim Puckett and R. Gorelli in the spiral galaxy UGC 4904 in the constellation Lynx
The supernova is located 11" west and 7" south of the centre of UGC 4904.
Position(2000): R.A. = 09h17m20s.78,...
A gamma-ray source, 3EG J0903-3531, in the Galactic Plane has been observed to have brightened by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, on the 6th October, 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the satellite placed the preliminary position at (J2000): RA=136.25 deg, Dec=-35.45 deg with...
The Great Orme (Welsh: Y Gogarth or Pen y Gogarth) is a prominent limestone headland on the north coast of Wales situated in Llandudno. The geology of the Great Orme is limestone and the surface is particularly noted for the limestone pavements covering several headland areas. There are also rich se...
Hurricane Norbert strengthened into a Category 3 major storm in the Pacific ocean and headed on Wednesday toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula. Norbert was packing winds of 125 mph and was located about 460 miles from Mexico's northwestern coast and expected to hit land this weekend, foreca...
For centuries Tibet has been the embodiment of an exotic fantasy. A Buddhist Shangri-La, mysterious and remote, locked away within high mountains from the frenetic modernity of the outside world. But as the first train ever pulled up to Lhasa station on July 1 having hurtled across frozen tundra fo...
Astronomers peering out into our cosmic backyard have long understood that the Milky Way's galactic neighbours only seem similar on the surface. Now a detailed survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the diversity of those galaxies as they evolve over time. The ACS Nearby Galaxy Su...
Explanations and further eye witness accounts have been flooding in after a possible UFO sighting in the night sky over Chatburn. Sarah Bryant, of Greenfield Avenue, Chatburn, raised the alert over the "UFO", which she and her husband say was blazing a trail in a slow arc across the sky ju...
The origins of life in our galaxy and the search for alien life outside our solar system will be at the forefront of discussions by experts in Edinburgh. The scientists are gathering at Edinburgh's Royal Observatory for this year's annual workshop, which runs from Wednesday until Friday. [url=htt...
Sign up to send your name to the moon. Names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will also receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission. The deadline is June 27, 2008 for the submission of names. [url=http...
RCW 108NASA/JPL-Caltech/CXO/CfA RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth. This is a complicated region that contains young star clusters, including one that is deeply embedded in a cloud of molecular hydrogen. By using dat...
Free Earth observation data on a global scale: A view from Brasil By Gilberto Câmara, General Director, National Institute for Space Research , Brazil. Organised in partnership with FCO/DIUS. Thursday 25 October at 6.30pm The Royal Society This lecture is FREE. No advance booking or registratio...
1 2
)
(Preview)
