One man thinks a rock he found in his yard could be outta this world. Trae Dickson, who lives in Roanoke, hit what he believes is a meteorite with his lawn mower. Read more
China on Monday broke ground on construction of its largest astronomical observation station in Yao'an County in the southwest Yunnan Province. The station, scheduled to be complete by 2010, is in Xihuling (Westlake Hill). Following an assessment, CAS experts found Yao'an fulfilled all the req...
Close to 1,000 aerospace professors, students and industry representatives are gathering here this week for Utah State University's Small Satellite Conference. The conference is the largest of its kind in the world. Read more
Astronomers have spotted the most distant Einstein ring ever seen. It gives an insight into both the gravitational lensing galaxy and the more distant magnified galaxy.
Gravitational lensing occurs because massive objects - ranging from stars to entire galaxies - distort the fabric of space-...
Title: The NGC 672 and NGC 784 Galaxy Groups: Evidence for Galaxy Formation and Growth Along a Nearby Dark Matter Filament Authors: Adi Zitrin, Noah Brosch We present U, B, V, R, I, H-alpha and NUV photometry of 14 galaxies in the very local Universe (within 10 Mpc that are dwarf irregular galaxies (dI...
Title: Obscured clusters. II. GLIMPSE-C02 - A new metal rich globular cluster in the Milky Way Authors: R. Kurtev (1), V.D. Ivanov (2), J. Borissova (1), S. Ortolani (3) ((1) Valparaiso University, Chile (2) ESO, Chile (3)Padova University, Italy) The estimated total number of Milky Way globular...
Title: Planetary Bow Shocks Authors: R. A. Treumann, C. H. Jaroschek Our present knowledge of the properties of the various planetary bow shocks is briefly reviewed. We do not follow the astronomical ordering of the planets. We rather distinguish between magnetised and unmagnetised planets whi...
Title: Discovery of a Wide Substellar Companion to a Nearby Low-Mass Star Authors: Jacqueline Radigan, David Lafrenière, Ray Jayawardhana, René Doyon We report the discovery of a wide (135±25 AU), unusually blue L5 companion 2MASS J17114559+4028578 to the nearby M4.5 dwarf G 203-50 as a result o...
Scientists and engineers from WHOI and the University of Washington have successfully completed the first scientific mission with Sentry, a newly developed robot capable of diving as deep as 5,000 meters into the ocean. The vehicle surveyed and helped pinpoint several proposed deep-water site...
In BBC series Britain from Above, presenter Andrew Marr takes to the skies to give viewers a bird's eye view of landmarks across the UK. The programme aims to show how Britain keeps moving all in the space of a day. Britain From Above begins on BBC1, Sunday at 9pm. [url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...
Richard Garriott, designer of the videogame Tabula Rasa, will take gamers' DNA in a digital time capsule when he travels to the International Space Station in October. Tabula Rasa, which was launched last year by NCsoft, is a sci-fi multiplayer online role-playing game that involves an intergala...
Over the weekend the WHT have been inundated with reports of UFO sightings across Times Territory skies. Readers have seen a mass group of lights flying in formation on several separate occasions. On Friday night "eight orange diamond shaped objects" were seen at 11pm across Welwyn Hat...
A 28 pound meteorite that was found in Arizona in 2004, has sold for $36,000 (£18,287) in Los Angeles. The meteorite is believed to be the largest ever found in that area.
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