The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab." Inside was a single sheet marked by pen with a bizarre series of hash marks, numbers and alien-looking symbols. No on...
A North Buffalo manufacturer of science education equipment is looking to the stars for growth, with the purchase of an astronomy-related manufacturing company. Science First bought Massachusetts based Learning Tech...
Title: Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Determination of Physical Properties of Eclipsing Binaries. I. The EBAI Project Authors: A. Prsa, E.F. Guinan, E.J. Devinney, M. DeGeorge, D.H. Bradstreet, J.M. Giammarco, C.R. Al****, S.G. Engle Achieving maximum scientific results from the o...
Title: Overview of the SIM PlanetQuest Light (SIM-Lite) mission concept Authors: R. Goullioud, J. H. Catanzarite, F. G. Dekens, M. Shao, J. C. Marr IV The Space Interferometry Mission PlanetQuest Light (or SIM-Lite) is a new concept for a space borne astrometric instrument, to be located in a sola...
Title: Ultrasensitive hot-electron nanobolometers for terahertz astrophysics Authors: Jian Wei1, David Olaya, Boris S. Karasik, Sergey V. Pereverzev, Andrei V. Sergeev & Michael E. Gershenson The submillimetre or terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum contains approximat...
Super Starburst Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just 10 stars per year. The discovery, made possible by se...
Iran test-fired a missile capable of reaching Israel early this morning, as part of war games that escalate the sabre-rattling between the Islamic Republic and the West. The new version of the Shahab-3 missile was one of nine medium and long-range missiles launched from the desert during wider war...
A University of B.C. astronomer has discovered the farthest cluster of stars ever seen by a human eye -- a find he hopes will reveal secrets about the formation of the universe.
Two months ago, Harvey Richer and Jason Kalirai, a former PhD student who now works for the University of California, Sant...
A Proton-K Auxiliary Motor that was launched on the 26th December 2004 from LC-200 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Cosmos 2411/12/13 Mission, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 07 July 2008 @ 23:36 GMT ± 1 minute TLE Data pre>SL-12 RB(AUX MOTOR) 1 28515U 04053H 08189.8222932...
The tiny eyeless C. elegans roundworm, one of the most widely used animals in biological research, can detect flashes of light and responds to them by quickly wriggling away, a University of Michigan biologist and his colleagues have discovered. [url=http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/release...
Arianespace will launch Arabsat's BADR-6 satellite
As part of its upcoming ambitious fleet renewal and expansion program for the next 3 years, Satcom operator Arabsat has selected Arianespace for the launch of its recently ordered BADR-6 satellite in 2008.
Khalid Balkheyour, Preside...
Title: Organic Matter in Space - an Overview Authors: E.F. van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University and Max Planck Institut fur Extraterrestrische Physik) Organic compounds are ubiquitous in space: they are found in diffuse clouds, in the envelopes of evolved stars, in dense star-f...
Title: SN2007ax : An Extremely Faint Type Ia Supernova Authors: M. M. Kasliwal (1), E. O. Ofek (1), A. Gal-Yam (1), A. Rau (1), P. J. Brown (2), S. B. Cenko (1), P. B. Cameron (1), R. Quimby (1), S. R. Kulkarni (1), L. Bildsten (3), P. Milne (4) ((1) Caltech, (2) PSU, (3) UCSB, (4)Steward Obs.) We present mu...
