* Astronomy

Radio 4 will have exclusive media access to the CERN control room. Andrew Marr will be reporting live and hosting a special day of programming. Read more

By analysing light from small, faint galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, UC Irvine scientists believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe 10 million times the mass of the sun. This mass could be the smallest known "building block" of the mysterious, invisib...

Title: Suzaku Observation of 30Dor C: A Supernova Remnant with the Largest Non-Thermal Shell Authors: Hiroya Yamaguchi, Aya Bamba, Katsuji Koyama This paper reports on the Suzaku results of thermal and non-thermal features of 30 Dor C, a supernova remnant (SNR) in a superbubble of the Large Magel...

Hot News from Taurus Hill Observatory A magnitude 16.9 supernova, 2008fb, was discovered on the 24th August 2008, by the Taurus Hill Observatory in the dwarf galaxy UGC 2813 in the constellation Camelopardalis. The supernova is located 13".5 east and 9".0 north from the centre of the g...

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While perhaps not quite as well known as its star-formation cousin Orion, the Corona Australis region (containing, at its heart, the Coronet cluster) is one of the nearest and most active regions of ongoing star formation. At only about 420 light-years away, the Coronet is over three times closer t...

A Proton-K SL-12 R/B Auxiliary Motor that was launched in December, 2001, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the Glonass 1/3, 1/5, 1/6 (Cosmos 2380/81/82) Mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th August 2008 @ 10:05 GMT ± 3 hours. [url=http://img170.imageshack.us/img1...

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You've seen them in the astronomy magazines. Glossy blue or black tubes, short and wide, set on sturdy mounts and aimed hopefully at the sky. These are Schmidt-Cassegrain (SCT) telescopes made famous by Meade. Are they the best all-around telescope for amateur astronomers? And is an SCT the best te...

Astronomers have caught multiple massive galaxies in the act of merging about 4 billion years ago. This discovery, made possible by combining the power of the best ground- and space-based telescopes, uniquely supports the favoured theory of how galaxies form. How do galaxies form? The most widel...

Worried star-gazers called the police last night after seeing lights flaring in the night sky above Auckland. Read more

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Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information. While it can burn or dissolve in water, good acid-free versions of paper are otherwise stable over the long term, cheap to warehouse, and oblivious to technological change because its pages are "eye-scanable." No...

ESAs orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of dark...

What may be the single largest impact crater on the planet, if not the entire solar system, has been discovered in Australia. The crater measures an incredible 1400+ miles in diameter. The crater, first discovered by amateur geologist Gene Harvey, was ironically found while watching the local new...