A magnitude 15.4 type II supernova, 2008ed, was discovered on the 15th July 2008, by Pignata et al. (CHASE), in the Sb galaxy UGC 2740 in the constellation Taurus. Position(2000): RA 03 26 43.62, Dec +07 42 34.9 The supernova is 28W 17S from the centre of the galaxy [url=http://www.adr...
XMM-Newton has discovered an exploding star in the Milky Way. Usually that would be important in itself, but this time there is a special twist. Calculations show that the explosion must have been clearly visible to the unaided eye but was missed by the legions of star watchers around the planet. On 9...
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. said Thursday it has finished building the first Japanese-made communications satellite and started preparations for its launch on Aug. 13. The Superbird-7 satellite for Space Communications Corp., a unit of Sky Perfect JSAT Holdings Inc., has been transported to th...
Authorities in far southern Chiles Region XII, an area also known as Magallanes, are looking into the possibility that a meteorite passed over the area Monday night. Read more
Title: Trojan Stars in the Galactic Centre Authors: Michiko Fujii, Masaki Iwasawa, Yoko Funato, Junichiro Makino We performed, for the first time, the simulation of spiral-in of a star cluster formed close to the Galactic center (GC) using a fully self-consistent N-body simulation of the system...
Title: A Positive Test of East AntarcticaLaurentia Juxtaposition Within the Rodinia Supercontinent Authors: J. W. Goodge, J. D. Vervoort, C. M. Fanning, D. M. Brecke, G. L. Farmer, I. S. Williams, P. M. Myrow, D. J. DePaolo A glacial boulder in Antarctica, and other data, confirm that East Antarct...
Tropical Storm Kalmaegi is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan. probability for CAT 1 or above is 50% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 65% within 12 hours China probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 45% in about 36 hours ...
A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock. Okmok Caldera erupted hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory began detecting a series of tremors. The explosion flung an ash c...
Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer. Experts expect an announcement within three to 10 years from someone in the now little-known field of "wet artificial life." [url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/...
NASA is carefully tracking some 500 pieces of debris from a Russian intelligence satellite that may pose a hazard for the international space station. The satellite exploded in March; another piece of it broke apart in June. [url=...
The Sea Launch team arrived at the launch site in the Equatorial Pacific over the weekend and initiated a 72-hour countdown, in preparation for the launch of the EchoStar XI satellite on Tuesday, July 15. Liftoff is planned at 10:21pm PDT, July 15 (5:21 GMT, July 16), at the opening of a two-hour laun...
Live Mesh puts you at the center of your digital world, seamlessly connecting you to the people, devices, programs, and information you care about available wherever you happen to be. (Now open to all) Read more
Work is underway to create a list of important Turkish sites related to astronomy, as the United Nations declares 2009 the International Year of Astronomy to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first-ever recorded use of a telescope. [url=http://www.turkishdailynews.com.t...
Google unveiled a free online service called "Lively" that allows people to embody a cartoonish avatar and have text-based conversations with other Internet users in virtual chat rooms. he new service, announced in a post on...
