A magnitude 14.3 type 1a supernova, 2008fw, was discovered on the 19th September, 2008, by Berto Monard in the (mag 12) spiral galaxy NGC 3261 in the constellation Vela. The supernova is located 52" west and 30" south from the cent...
Among the hordes of schoolchildren gathered at Nehru Planetarium in Worli on Saturday morning stood a man who is all set to make space history next year. Santosh George Kulangara, 37, slated to become the first Indian space tourist, recently touched down in Mumbai on a short trip. [url=http://time...
The Holcomb Observatory at Butler University has opened for its fall season of telescope viewing and planetarium shows. It's a fun and budget-friendly way to spend the evening! Source
A telescope believed to have belonged to George Washington, and last offered as such in 1920, will be sold at a Fine Furniture & Decorative Arts Auction scheduled for Oct. 5-6 by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. It is expected to fetch $10,000 or more. The spyglass has been consigned by the renowned I...
What was that object in the sky Saturday evening?? Many residents of the South Plains reported seeing an unusual object in the northeastern skies Saturday evening between 7pm and 8pm. Many calls came in to the station around 7:15pm. It turns out that the object was a NASA scientific balloon launched...
China's lowest inland point is 154.31 meters below the sea level, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly announced here on Sunday. The figure means the lowest point at Aiding Lake in the northwestern [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
Dave Jessie loads his 12-inch computer-controlled telescope onto his tractor and manoeuvres from his home to the next-door field behind Fishcreek Elementary School on Friday nights from early spring until late fall. That is his forum to tell anyone who shows up about the world of astronomy at his W...
Mathematicians have taken a giant step towards cracking one of the oldest and most complex number puzzles - without a Sudoku grid in sight.
The puzzle, known as the twin prime conjecture, has stumped the best mathematical brains for centuries.
Of similar status to Fermat's last the...
Title: Discovery of A Very Bright, Strongly-Lensed z=2 Galaxy in the SDSS DR5 Authors: Huan Lin, Elizabeth Buckley-Geer, Sahar S. Allam, Douglas L. Tucker, H. Thomas Diehl, Donna Kubik, Jeffrey M. Kubo, James Annis, Joshua A. Frieman, Masamune Oguri, Naohisa Inada We report on the discovery of a v...
A Proton rocket with Block DM upper stage has successfully launched three Glonass satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 08:49 GMT, 25th September, 2008. The 3,000-pound navigation satellites were successfully placed into a circular parking orbit.
Ypsilanti fireball University of Michigan professor of astronomy Mario Mateo was a little jealous this morning of a group of Ypsilanti Public Schools bus drivers and a teacher who saw what Mateo suspects was a bolide, or fireball, early Thursday. [url=http://www.mlive.com/annarborne...
Along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has performed remarkably as one of NASA's "Great Observatories." Google Sky file Read more
A freshly built observatory dome houses a high-powered 40-centimetre, mirrored telescope. One day soon, wine sippers will be able to gaze at the stars. The automated telescope -- lent to Saunders by a friend -- will eventually allow users to control it through the Internet. Saunders said Calamus i...
Hundreds of astronomers to invade Ithaca The solar system will rock as more than 700 planetary scientists from around the world descend on Ithaca for the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), held on the Cornell University camp...
