A balloon packed with scientific gadgets that travelled from south central Kentucky to the edge of space was designed by a group of college students from around the state. The latex balloon was launched just after noon on Monday from a field at the Bowling Green-Warren County Regional Airport. It re...
Telescope Optical Parameters Calculator v.3.1a For anyone desiring a simple utility to calculate various telescope characteristics, the Telescope program is offered free for download , and is hereby released as-is to the Public Domain, without any warranty, guarantee or claim of suitability...
The Standing Stones of Torhouse are a circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland. Also known as the Standing Stones of Torhouse this 19m diameter stone circle consists of some 19 large granite boulders, ranging in height from 0.60m to 1.45m. Th...
REUL-CHUIRT, a six part series on astronomy and archaeoastronomy, broadcast on STV (UK) on Sundays at 18:00. The series is filmed in stunning locations from Orkney to the Borders. Presented by Derek Mackay, Angela Smith and Iain MacPherson [url=http://www.soundscotland.com/page8.htm]Rea...
A magnitude 15.5 supernova, 2008ee was discovered on the 16th July 2008, by LOSS, in the E/S0 galaxy NGC 307 in the constellation Cetus. The supernova is located 6"east and 3" north from the centre of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown Position(2000): RA 00 56 32.96, Dec -01 46 16.0 [...
An ancient Viking burial stone kept in a south Wirral church has become the centre of an archaeological dispute. The stone at the Church of St Mary and St Helen, in Neston town centre, which has been broken over time prior to its discovery, clearly depicts a man and a woman with an angel flying overhead....
Archaeologists excavating a mass grave in the grounds of an Oxford (England) college uncovered what could be a monument dating back 5,000 years. They found evidence of what they believe to be a 150m circular "henge" monument dating back to about 3,000BC - making it just one of about a doze...
The Selangor government is building an astronomy station for educational, research and tourism purposes apart from facilitating the sighting of the new moon to determine the start of Ramadan and Aidilfitri. The RM2 million station, which will be built on a 0.4ha site in Sungai Lang, Sabak Bernam,...
Ariane 5 ECA debris (SYLDA) that was launched on the 13th October 2006, from Europes Spaceport in French Guiana, for the Optus D1 mission is predicted to re-enter th...
A H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 7, Stage 3 Rocket Body that was launched in February 2005 from the Tanegashima launch complex for the Multi-functional Transport Satellite-1 Replacement (MTSAT-1R) mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th July 2008 @ 14:59 UTC ± 18 hours TLE Dat...
A Proton-K SL-12 R/B Auxiliary Motor that was launched in December 2001 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, for the Kosmos 2380/81/82 mission (Glonass 1/3, 5, 6) is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th July 2008 @ 20:07 UTC ± 28 hours TLE Data pre>SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR) 1 26994U 01053H 0...
Hominid fossils are the most important materials to explore human origins and evolution. Since most hominid fossils are incomplete, or filled with a heavy calcified matrix, it is difficult or often impossible to reconstruct the endocast in a real fossil without destroying it. Accordingly, trad...
(VSX J212531.9-010745, AUID 000-BCY-521) Binary PG 1159-type variable star The spectrum of SDSS J212531.92-010745.9 shows not only the typical signature of a PG 1159 star, but also indicates the presence of a companion. The orbital motion of the system, based on a sine fit results in a period of 6....
Archaeopteryx is famous as the worlds oldest bird, but reptiles were flying about some 50 million years earlier than that (225 million years ago), even before large dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A new study of extinct reptiles called kuehneosaurs, by scientists from the University of Bristol, Engl...
