Moscow is ready to help Cuba develop its own space centre, Russia's space agency chief said on Wednesday after talks in Caracas with Venezuelan and Cuban officials. Read more
DMCii pioneers new framework for satellite imaging quality control Remote sensing solution provider DMCiis Chief Scientist, Dr Steve Mackin, has pioneered a new approach for deriving quality control indicators from Disaster Monitoring Constellation data. The new framework, which is being i...
Title: SDSSJ084539.17+225728.0: the first DBZ white dwarf with a metal-rich gaseous debris disc Authors: B.T. Gaensicke, D. Koester, T.R. Marsh, A. Rebassa-Mansergas, J. Southworth We report the discovery of a third white dwarf hosting a gaseous debris disc, SDSSJ084539.17+225728.0. The ty...
A massive $310m upgrade to the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia has been approved, which will provide physicists with beams of 12 GeV electrons to study the fundamental structure of protons and neutrons. The upgrade will allow scientists to investigate the origins of w...
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GSI to commission seismic observatory in Tripura In order to facilitate the prediction of high intensity earthquakes in hilly parts of the Northeastern region, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has asserted to commission a sophisticated seismic observatory at Agartala by the next three mont...
Royal Society's Michael Reiss resigns over creationism row The Royal Societys embattled director of education has resigned, days after causing uproar among scientists by appearing to endorse the teaching of creationism in science classes. [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u...
Amateur astronomer gets access to space telescope David Gamey, an amateur astronomer, recently won a competition to collaborate with scientists to study a star using the MOST space telescope Read more
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal tentacles of dust can be seen extending beyond the small galaxy's disk of sta...
Title: The Complex Structure of the Cl 1604 Supercluster at z~0.9 Authors: R. R. Gal, B. C. Lemaux, L. M. Lubin, D. Kocevksi, G. K. Squires The Cl1604 supercluster at z=0.9 is one of a small handful of such structures discovered in the high redshift universe, and is the first target observed as part of t...
Title: Tombaugh 2: The First Open Cluster with a Significant Abundance Spread or Embedded in a Cold Stellar Stream? Authors: P. M. Frinchaboy (U.Wisc), A. F. Marino (Padova), S. Villanova (Concepcion), G. Carraro (ESO), S. R. Majewski (UVa), D. Geisler (Concepcion) We present new abundances and...
After receiving a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in July, PUC is currently pursuing $150,000 in additional funding to buy a state-of-the-art, Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope. The telescope, dubbed the Northwest Indiana Robotic Telescope, will be donated to the Ca...
Canadian companies increasingly look to China As talks swirl in space circles about China undertaking its third manned launch later this month, it's clear the international space market is undergoing a sea change. And some aerospace companies in Ottawa used to dealing with the more traditional...
