Hurricane Bertha has become a "major" hurricane in the open Atlantic on Monday, with sustained winds of at least 185 kph. The second named storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season was heading west-northwest in the direction of Bermuda when it became a Category 3 storm on the five-step...
Russia's new state-of-the-art Su-35 Flanker multi-role air superiority/strike fighter successfully completed its first demonstration flight on Monday. The Sukhoi Su-35 (NATO designation: Flanker-E) is a 4.5 generation heavy class, long-range, multi-role, air superiority fighter and st...
Winnipeg-based rock hound Derek Erstelle has become the first person in Canada to discover two separate meteorites after he uncovered a previously-overlooked meteorite while sifting through some of the unusual rocks he has collected over the years.
After finding two fragments of an iron mete...
A geological study warned that in the coming few years Cairo might be subject to three destructive earthquakes that could measure a staggering 7 degrees on the Richter scale. The study conducted by Egyptian geologist Taha Mohamed Abul Azayem, predicts that the point of initial rupture of the stron...
Title: Detection of Fluorine in the Halo Planetary Nebula BoBn 1: Evidence For a Binary Progenitor Star Authors: Masaaki Otsuka, Hideyuki Izumiura, Akito Tajitsu, Siek Hyung We have found the fluorine lines [F IV] 3996.92A,4059.90A in the extremely metal-poor ([Ar/H] = -2.10±0.21) halo planet...
Calcutta University (CU) is set to introduce an integrated course leading to a doctoral degree in association with the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. The M.Tech-Ph.D course in astronomical instrumentation is the first full-fledged programme the university is launching in asso...
Witnesses across Southern California say they saw an object 'moving very fast across the northern sky' and falling near the San Bernardino Mountains. Officials have no firm answers on what it was. From Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across th...
On July 3rd members of the Texas Astronomical Society will be at the Anatole Hotel, Stemmons Frwy, Dallas, Texas for the National Convention of the Federation of the Blind. We will setup our telescopes in the back of the hotel and create JPEG images, which Noreen Grice of the Boston Museum of Science w...
Britains biggest wave has been conquered by a 17-year-old, who is thought to be the youngest of the handful of people to have surfed it. Joss Hughes rode the 20ft wave yesterday at Newquay, Cornwall. Read more
Vibrational excitation through tug-of-war inelastic collisions A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body. The reaction under study is the simplest che...
Title: An occultation event in a triple post-AGB star Authors: M. Hajduk, A. A. Zijlstra, K. Gesicki We study the post-AGB central star of the (bipolar) Galactic bulge planetary nebula M 2-29. We have obtained additional HST imaging and SAAO spectroscopy of the object. The star showed a pronounced...
Who knew it would take nearly a century to create the Bohr atom? The first successful model of the hydrogen atom was proposed by Danish physicist Niels Bohr almost a century ago and comprised an electron in classical circular "planet-like" orbit about the nucleus. With the advent of quan...
