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Date: Monday, 06 October 2008 Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm Room: Ihaca Auditorium Location: Brisbane City Hall Did the Big Bang happen? How can we be sure? What evidence is there at the present time for the Big Bang happening? What is dark energy? How is it connected to the Big Bang? How are astronomers cu...
Computer applications shouldn't make you feel godly; that's a domain usually reserved for gaming. Universe Sandbox isn't a game, yet we feel a million feet tall and can shoot moons out of our fingertips. As experiences go, that's unique. The fact that we recently smashed two distinct galaxies toge...
"Through the Eyes of Hubble" will be hosted by the Des Plaines Valley Public Library District in: Lockport: 7 p.m. Wednesday at the library, 121 E. Eighth St. Crest Hill: 7 p.m. Oct. 15 at the library, 1298 Theodore St. No registration is required, and the event is free. [url=http://www.s...
A mysterious explosion occurred near the foot of an electric post on Access Road, Area 4 Extension, Spring Country in Barangay (village) Bagong Silangan, in Quezon City, at around 4 a.m. Saturday, police said. Senior Superintendent Neri Andal Ilagan said in an official report that no one was repor...
The internet trading companies eBay and Amazon are removing high-powered green laser pens from sale on their sites. The move follows a BBC investigation which found some of these potentially dangerous products were being sold irresponsibly by individual traders. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk...
Retired Professor Has An Asteroid All His Own Newburyport resident and retired Eastern Illinois University physics professor Scott Smith can add his name to the list of asteroids, joining the ranks of famous astronomers, actors, singers, novelists and philosophers that also have planetesimal...
New chief scientist Penny Sackett will consider if the nation should have its own satellite and lobby to have the world's largest telescope built in Western Australia. Professor Sackett, previously head of astrophysics and astronomy at the Australian National University in Canberra, will take...
Brian Binnie, 55, is set to speak at the Orion Congress tourism conference on October 11 at Atlantis The Palm, where he will deliver a 45-minute presentation to highlight the "new frontier of the hospitality industry", according to the Regional Manager of Orion Hotel Schools, Adam Sarg...
A magnitude 14 nova was discovered in the constellation Aquila by K. Itagaki (Japan) on the 22nd September, 2008. Position(2000): RA = 19 06 28.58, Dec = +07 06 44.3 IAUC 8989 (Subscription)
Astronomers at the Carnegie Institution have found the first indications of highly complex organic molecules in the disk of red dust surrounding a distant star. The eight-million-year-old star, known as HR 4796A, is inferred to be in the late stages of planet formation, suggesting that the basic...
Penny Sackett has spent her professional career pondering galactic structures, searching for extrasolar planets and divining the presence of dark matter. Now she is coming back to earth. The Federal Government announced yesterday it had appointed the American-born astronomer as Australia's...
A Kosmotras Dnepr rocket will launch the THEOS Earth observation satellite from the Dombarovsky launch facility, Russia , on 30th January, 2008. The THEOS (Thailand Earth Observation System) satellite is based on EADS Astrium's new generation of high performance AstroSat optical Earth observ...