* Astronomy

One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed. Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch h...

A meteor shower is said to be the cause of two "big bangs" that shook parts of Kincardine. Read more

The site of this weekend's Belladrum Festival is now home to the largest furnished tipi village in Europe. More than 110 tipis have been assembled ahead of this weekend's family friendly music festival outside Beauly. All of the tipis are carpeted with fires, seating, kindling and beds. [url=http...

A University of Utah study is shedding light on an important, unsolved physics problem: the relationship between chaos theory - which is based on 300-year-old Newtonian physics - and the modern theory of quantum mechanics. The study demonstrated a fundamental new property - what appears to be cha...

Title: Star formation in the vicinity of the IC 348 cluster Authors: M. Tafalla, M. S. N. Kumar, R. Bachiller Aims: We present molecular line observations of the southwestern part of the IC 348 young cluster, and we use them together with NIR and mm continuum data to det...

Top scientists and educators will convene in Maryland this summer to explore a basic, but controversial, question: What is a planet? The Great Planet Debate (GPD) conference includes two days (August 14-15) of scientific sessions to discuss and debate the processes leading to planet formation a...

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Title: VERITAS Discovery of >200GeV Gamma-ray Emission from the Intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac Object W Comae Authors: VERITAS Collaboration: V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu, M. Beilicke, W. Benbow, S. M. Bradbury, J. H. Buckley, V. Bugaev, Y. Butt, O. Celik, A. Cesarini, L. Ciupik, Y. C. K. Cho...

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Title: SDSS J120923.7+264047: A new massive galaxy cluster with a bright giant arc Authors: Eran O. Ofek, Stella Seitz, Felix Klein Highly magnified lensed galaxies allow us to probe the morphological and spectroscopic properties of high-redshift stellar systems in great detail. However, suc...

Title: A Chandra Look at Five of the Broadest Double-Peaked Balmer-Line Emitters Authors: Iskra V. Strateva (1), W. N. Brandt (2), Michael Eracleous (2), Gordon Garmire (2) ((1) MPE, Germany; (2) Penn State University, USA) We study the 0.5-10keV emission of a sample of five of the broadest double...

New Mexico fireball on 4th August, 2008, 08:36 UT See more

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Sherry Fieber-Beyer, a doctoral student in the Earth System Science and Policy department at the University of North Dakotas John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences, has been awarded a $30,000-per-year, three-year NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for her research project titled, M...