* Astronomy

The world's largest Viking ship will sail from Denmark to Norway next week, but it's too big to navigate its way into the Oslo Fjord. The upcoming voyage of the Havhingsten will thus end at Tønsberg, about a 90-minute drive south of the capital but a city rich in its own Viking history. The Danish ve...

Rho Aquilae is a star in the constellation Delphinus - it moved across the border from Aquila into Delphinus in 1992. Rho Aquilae is the first star with a Greek-letter name to move from one constellation to another. Read more Spectral ty...

Tropical Storm Fung-Wong is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan. probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 42 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 42 hours

The observatory is located 2 kilometres from central Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. The observatory has a Ritchey Chretien A&M 16" f/8 Astrositall Star Instruments optics, carbon tubes truss design, all CNC aluminium and stainless. The telescope is fully automatic thanks to the solid...

A magnitude 14.4 supernova, 2008db, was discovered on the 15th May, 2008, by CHASE in the elliptical galaxy NGC 50 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 78" west and 79" north of the centre o...

Title: T-Lyr1-17236: A Long-Period Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary Authors: Jonathan Devor, David Charbonneau, Guillermo Torres, Cullen H. Blake, Russel J. White, Markus Rabus, Francis T. O'Donovan, Georgi Mandushev, Gaspar Bakos, Gabor Furesz, Andrew Szentgyorgyi We describe the discovery of...

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Save Glasgow Science Centre The job cuts for Scotlands most prestigious centre for popularising science is facing a 40% cut in its budget over the next three years. Read more

Astronomers have discovered a new planet about the same size as Jupiter, it was announced today. The planet, named CoRot-Exo-4b, was spotted by a European space mission. It forms part of the unicorn constellation and lies about 3,000 light years from our solar system. [url=http://www.dailymail...

Presenter Carol Vorderman, 47, has announced she is to step down from presenting the Channel 4 television game show Countdown. Read more

Observations of (35107) 1991 VH in 2008 provide an exceptional opportunity to characterize the dynamics, morphology, and physical properties of a binary (or multiple) system. High resolution images obtained over a suitable range of aspect angles will provide detailed information on the regol...

Title: Modelling UX Ursae Majoris: An abundance of challenges Authors: Albert P. Linnell, Patrick Godon, Ivan Hubeny, Edward M. Sion, Paula Szkody We present a system model for optical and far UV spectra of the nova-like variable UX UMa involving a white dwarf, secondary star, gas stream, hot spot...

Title: The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE): Proposal to ESA's Cosmic Vision Authors: Alexandre Refregier, the DUNE collaboration The Dark UNiverse Explorer (DUNE) is a wide-field space imager whose primary goal is the study of dark energy and dark matter with unprecedented precision. For this pu...

The journey of the 15-year-old Russian space station ended March 23, 2001, as Mir re-entered the Earth's atmosphere near Nadi, Fiji, and fell into the South Pacific. Its downfall - planned and controlled - began around 8 a.m. Moscow time. Engines of a cargo ship docked to [url=http://en.wikipedia...