Outer space - an infinite expanse with many opportunities for science. In which areas can research be carried out under zero gravity? What plans are there for medium and long-term projects? What funding is available? One hundred and twenty representatives from science, industry and politics dis...
Britain's biggest ever space rocket has been unveiled, the latest step on the way to sending tourists into space by 2013. The 58ft long, Nova 2, was revealed at Salford University by Steve Bennett, head of the university's Space Technology Laboratory. [url=http://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/l...
Ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars are being considered by the French government. It wants to kick-start a revolution in space by letting EU politicians not bureaucrats decide on priorities for the European Space Agency (Esa). The French say that if Europe fails to change it...
Amarnath cave believed to be 5,000 years old Where exactly is the Amarnath cave? Amarnath is a 150 feet high and 90 feet long cave located nearly 145 km east of Srinagar. Located in a Himalayan glacial valley at a height of approximately 4,000m the cave has four ice formations, which are considered fig...
A type Ia-p magnitude 15.5 Supernova 2008ds was discovered on the 28th June, 2008, in the galaxy UGC 299 by LOSS. Position(2000): RA 00 29 50.83, Dec +31 23 33.9CBET 1419 -- Edited by Blobrana at 08:51, 2008-07-01
Title: An Extreme Solar Event of 20 January 2005: Properties of the Flare and the Origin of Energetic Particles Authors: V. V. Grechnev (1), V. G. Kurt (2), I. M. Chertok (3), A. M. Uralov (1), H. Nakajima (4), A. T. Altyntsev (1), A. V. Belov (3), B. Yu. Yushkov (2), S. N. Kuznetsov (2), L. K. Kashapova (1...
Title: Evidence of a Massive Black Hole Companion in the Massive Eclipsing Binary V Puppis Authors: S.-B. Qian, W.-P. Liao, E. Fernandez-Lajus Up to now, most stellar-mass black holes were discovered in X-ray emitting binaries, in which the black holes are formed through a common-envelope evolu...
Attempts were made from 1965 to 1968 by the CIA to place a plutonium-powered listening device high on Nanda Devi, to monitor possible Chinese nuclear activity in Tibet, but the device was lost in an avalanche. (Recent reports indicate that radiation traces from this device have been discovered in s...
Footage shot by eagle-eyed resident after sighting in Clapham Paranormal activity is suspected above the streets of Bedfordshire, after a UFO was caught on film in Clapham. The group Scope-Paranormal.com has been analysing footage which was captured by an eagle-eyed resident at 9.45pm on Satur...
From Mars to the Earth and back is the theme when the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and University of Bern in Switzerland build and launch a mass spectrometer on a stratospheric balloon from SSCs operational facility Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna. T...
A Proton-K/DM-3 rocket has successfully launched a Kosmos military satellite from launchpad LC81 at the Baikonur cosmodrome on Friday at 23:59 GMT, 27th June, 2008. The 2000kg Kosmos satellite has entered into geostationary orbit and is probably similar to early warning Oko-1 satellites tha...
Fossils of giant kangaroos and 3 tonne wombats found in a Lancefield paddock are at risk of disappearing. Archaeologist Dr Joe Dortch, who led surveying teams at the Lancefield Swamp in 2004 and 2005, says the drought and many bores sunk by residents are lowering the water level and causing the fossi...
It looked like a small plane that was on fire and about to ditch in the ocean, Port Macquaries Luke Williams said. To the policeman he spoke to it looked like a meteor or a piece of space junk that disappeared into the ocean. To Sea Rescue Port Macquarie it was reported as being a green flare. [url=http://...
Astronomers say they have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. The discovery, they said, means that our solar system might be more t...
Title: The young Galactic star cluster [DBS2003]179 Authors: J. Borissova (1), V.D. Ivanov (2), M. M. Hanson (3), L. Georgiev (4), D. Minniti (5), R. Kurtev (1), D. Geisler (6) ((1) Valparaiso University, Chile (2) ESO, Chile (3)University of Cincinnati (4) UNAM, Mexoco (5) PUC, Chile (6) Univers...
