A science forum that hosts informal debates in cafes, bars and restaurants is to be launched in Inverness. The city's first "Cafe Scientifique", which were started in France in the early 1990s, is to be held in Borders Bookshop on 4 October. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news...
Adam Solomon: A Young Astrophysicist Studies Old Dwarfs Brown dwarfs are basically failed stars. In normal stars, the swirling balls of gas present during the star's formation become so big that they press in on themselves, forming a central core that is dense enough to cause hydrogen atoms to fuse...
Today Europeans presented to the world their strategy for the future of astroparticle physics. What is dark matter? What is the origin of cosmic rays? What is the role of violent cosmic processes? Can we detect gravitational waves? With seven types of major large-scale projects physicists want to...
When historians first stumbled upon these structures they simply assumed that they were cattle kraal left behind by the Bantu people as they moved south and settled the land from around the 13th century. But research work done by people like Cyril Hromnik, Richard Wade, Johan Heine and a handful of o...
Japan, France to jointly develop satellite parts The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) have agreed to jointly develop key semiconductor components for use on satellites and were to formally sign a deal in Britain on Sunday,...
Title: KBS 13 -- a Rare Reflection Effect sdB Binary with an M Dwarf Secondary Authors: B.Q. For, H. Edelmann, E. M. Green, H. Drechsel, S. Nesslinger, G. Fontaine We report preliminary VRI differential photometric and spectroscopic results for KBS 13, a recently discovered non-eclipsing sdB+dM...
Title: The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b Authors: R. G. West, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, Y. C. Joshi, D. Pollacco, E. Simpson, I. Skillen, H. C. Stempels, P. J. Wheatley, D. Wilson, D. Anderson, S. Bentley, F. Bouchy, B. Enoch, N. Gibson, G. Hébrard, C. Hellier, B. Loeillet, M. Ma...
Title: A Deep XMM-Newton Observation of the Quasar 3C 287 Authors: G. Salvesen (1), J. M. Miller (1), E. Cackett (1), A. Siemiginowska (2) ((1) University of Michigan, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) We report on an XMM-Newton observation of the z=1.055 quasar and Giga-hertz Peaked Spectrum (GPS) s...
On August 29 from midnorthern latitudes, Venus will be visible low above the western horizon after sunset. If you're lucky you might catch Mars and Mercury too. If you can't find it, keep looking during the coming weeks; Venus will set later after sunset every night, eventually becoming an unmissab...
In addition to revisiting the crucial questions from the 1992 October Astrophysics symposium "Back to the Galaxy" with 15 years of hindsight, this conference will embody our KITP program goals of bringing together multiple sub-fields of current Milky Way research. [url=http://www...
The 59th International Astronautical Congress is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. IAC 2008 is being organised by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the British Interplanetary Society (BIS). [url=http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMI16Q4K...
Abundances for selenium in a number of different environments. Use the links in the location column for definitions, literature sources, and visual representations in many different styles (one of which is shown below) Location ppb by weight ppb by atomsUniverse 30 0.5 Sun no data no data Meteori...
China, hailing its astronauts' successful spacewalk, has set its sights on a manned lunar landing when its current three-stage space program ends in 2020. Source
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