It began life as a base for airships in 1918 before becoming a naval air station with maritime patrol aircraft. Yesterday, uncertainty over RAF Machrihanish's future was finally removed when Defence Secretary Kevan Jones announced that the Kintyre base was "surplus to defence requirement...
Star-gazers can see clearly now, thanks to some new lighting near their Doncaster observatory. Members of the Doncaster Astronomical Society have been struggling to plot the planets and scan the stars because of the glare of bright street lighting. Now Doncaster Council has installed nine cut-o...
A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and MIT astronomers, using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, has found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars. The star in question, 2M1404B, has a mass of about 3 percent of the mass of our sun and lives with its s...
EPA Won't Regulate Rocket Fuel Toxic in Drinking Water Perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel that contaminates drinking water at sites in at least 35 states, will not be regulated at the national level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided. The agency announced its prelimi...
Astronomical Society of the Desert members and guests will learn about the Goat Mountain Observatory at the society's lecture meeting at 7 p.m. Friday. Read more
NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address on Friday, Oct. 10, at the Adler Planetarium to kick off NASA's Future Forum in Chicago. The 8:45 a.m. CDT event marks the final Future Forum and is part of a year-long series celebrating the agency's 50th anniversary. The forum wil...
Title: An extreme EXO: a type 2 QSO at z=1.87 Authors: A. Del Moro, M. G. Watson, S. Mateos, M. Akiyama, Y. Hashimoto, N. Tamura, K. Ohta, F. J. Carrera, G. Stewart We aim to understand the multi-wavelength properties of 2XMM J123204+215255, the source with the most extreme X-ray-to-optical flux rat...
Asteroid 1997 XF11 will pass well beyond the Moon's distance from Earth in October 2028 with a zero probability of impacting the planet, according to astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. The asteroid "is predicted to pass at a rather comfortable distance of about ...
The study of stellar populations in galaxies is entering a new era with the availability of large and high quality databases of both observed galactic spectra and state-of-the-art evolutionary synthesis models. In this project we are investigating the power of spectral synthesis as a mean to est...
An operation to remove a 160-year-old dinosaur footprint from a Yorkshire beach has been successfully completed by divers of Scarborough SAC. The 66cm-long fossilised print, embedded in a 300kg sandstone boulder, was lifted from the beach at Burniston by the club's members.
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The University of Montevallo will break ground on a future residence hall and dedicate a new observatory Thursday. Both events are part of the 112th Founders' Day at Montevallo. The James Wylie Shepherd Observatory will be dedicated Thursday. [url=http://www.shelbycountyreporter.com/new...
The single-lane road to the top of this Blue Ridge mountain is knotted with hairpin curves and sudden cliffs that offer a horrifying look straight down at tiny trees and buildings and highways - that little white string is a highway? - at its foot. One must drive cautiously, as it is not only narrow and c...
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences. Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Univ...
