Title: Galaxy populations in the Antlia cluster. II. Compact elliptical galaxy candidates Authors: Analia V. Smith Castelli, Favio R. Faifer, Tom Richtler, Lilia P. Bassino We present a photometric analysis of four galaxies classified as compact elliptical (cE) galaxies in the FS90 Antlia Gro...
Typhoon Nuri is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines in about 29 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% probability for TS is 75% Laoag (18.2 N, 120.7 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 41 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 29 hours
Some planets beyond our solar system might be rocky like Earth, but lack its gooey metallic middle, a new study suggests. Such 'coreless' terrestrial planets would not have magnetic fields, which would make them inhospitable to life as we know it. Rocky planets were once thought to consist of three...
Morris Jarvis likes to think big. By day he is a project engineer, working for Intel Corp. on its latest mega fabs. By night, he is working on a personal spacecraft. Jarvis brought his latest prototype, the prototype Hermes spacecraft, to the show floor of the Intel Developer Forum here. Using off-th...
To celebrate the forthcoming International Year of Astronomy, primary schools in Scotland have been invited to help create a new constellation in a project funded by the Royal Astronomical Society. The scheme will see the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor John Brown, and artist Gill Russ...
Title: Discovery of VHE gamma-rays from RGB J0152+017 Authors: J.-P. Lenain, D. Nedbal, M. Raue, S. Kaufmann, L. Gérard, M. Hauser, B. Giebels, for the H.E.S.S. collaboration The BL Lac object RGB J0152+017 (z = 0.080) was predicted to be a very high-energy (VHE; > 100 GeV) gamma-ray source, due...
During the late 2nd century BC, the Teutons were marching south along with their neighbours, the Cimbri and the Ambrones, and attacking Roman Italy. The Cimbri were ferocious warriors who did not fear death. The host was followed by women and children on carts. Aged women dressed in white sacrifice...
Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers here at the 236th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of "micro-spacecraft" weighin...
August sports many celestial highlights for those that dare to look up. The five brightest planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible this month along with the annual Perseid Meteor Shower. As August starts out, look to the western sky, about 30 minutes after sunset, to find t...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced that it has signed a contract with the Department of Defence's Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office to carry their first Jumpstart mission payload onboard the upcoming Falcon 1 launch. Scheduled for flight in June 2008 from the Sp...
Arianespace is to launch the Superbird-7 & AMC-21 communications satellites on Thursday, August 14, 2008. An Ariane 5 rocket (Flight 185) with an ECA cryogenic upper stage will orbit two satellites: Superbird-7 for Japanese operator Space Communications Corporation (SCC) in the scope of...
The Shetland island of Bressay will today (Tuesday) hold the first public display of its reconstructed a Bronze Age monument. The burnt mound is a 4,000 year old water heater located at Cruester in Bressay, one of the best preserved of the hundreds in Shetland. It became necessary to excavate and reb...
Title: On the Primordial Helium Abundance and the DeltaY/DeltaO Ratio
Authors: M. Peimbert (IA-Unam), V. Luridiana (IAA, Csic), A. Peimbert (IA-Unam), L. Carigi (IA-Unam)
We present a review on the determination of the primordial helium abundance, Yp, based on the study...
Title: The Exceptionally Luminous Type II-L SN 2008es Authors: A. A. Miller, R. Chornock, D. A. Perley, M. Ganeshalingam, N. R. Butler, J. S. Bloom, N. Smith, M. Modjaz, D. Poznanski, A. V. Filippenko, J. H. Shiode, J. M. Silverman (UC Berkeley) We report on our early photometric and spectroscopic o...
Title: Multi-telescope timing of PSR J1518+4904 Authors: G.H.Janssen (1), B.W. Stappers (2,1,3), M. Kramer (3), D.J. Nice (4), A. Jessner (5), I. Cognard (6), M.B. Purver (3). ((1)University of Amsterdam, NL,(2)Astron, Dwingeloo, NL, (3)JBCA, University of Manchester, UK, (4)Bryn Mawr Coll...
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