The old Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics associated with Niels Bohr is giving way to a more profound interpretation based on the idea of quantum entanglement. Entanglement not only replaces the obsolete notion of the collapse of the wave function but is also the basis for Bells famo...
When amateur astronomer Ron Arbour spotted an enormous explosion from 17 million light-years away in the Fireworks Galaxy (NGC 6946), many professional scientists believed that it was the final death throes of a massive dying star. However, observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope une...
India will launch its first dedicated military satellite in August to give the country the capability to monitor missile launches in its neighbourhood. The dedicated military reconnaissance satellite, CARTOSAT 2A, will be launched on a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket by the Indian Space...
A team of scientists from the US and the UK has developed a technique using ultraviolet light to identify organic matter in soils that could be used to find life on Mars. Chemical compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), often are found on comets, meteorites and in space between th...
Title: The Seyfert galaxies in the local Universe: from BeppoSAX to Simbol-X Authors: Mauro Dadina The operational conditions found by BeppoSAX in observing nearby (z <= 0.1) Seyferts were reproduced for Simbol -X in order to simulate a realistic final database of the mission. The results in...
Title: Discovery of Par 1802 as a Low-Mass, Pre-Main-Sequence Eclipsing Binary in the Orion Star-Forming Region Authors: P. A. Cargile, K. G. Stassun, R. D. Mathieu We report the discovery of a pre-main-sequence, low-mass, double-lined, spectroscopic, eclipsing binary in the Orion star-form...
In 2002 this web site broke the story that the Soviet Union had recovered an Apollo capsule in 1969 and returned it to the Americans a year later in the extraordinary Cold War visit to Murmansk by the American Coast Guard icebreaker Southwind. Recently Michael Stronski, a Southwind crew member, has p...
On June 3rd, there is a New Moon -- a good time to observe the planets and stars all night without a bright light ruining your view. On June 7th, Mars is real close to the crescent Moon in the West at Sunset. Saturn is just above the crescent Moon on the 8th. [url=http://www.steubencourier.com/news/200...
A speck of crystal that fell to Earth in a meteorite has been traced back to a red-giant star. It's not the same as having a sample return mission to, say, Aldebaran, but it's still pretty awesome: mounted on a gold pedestal in a laboratory in the Carnegie Institute of Washington and then bombarded by io...
Typhoon Fengshen is forecast to make landfall in the Philippines Oras (12.1 N, 125.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 80% Sorsogon (13.0 N, 124.1 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 3 hours probability for TS is 75% in abou...
Astronomers have measured the distribution of mass inside a dark filament in a molecular cloud with an amazing level of detail and to great depth. The measurement is based on a new method that looks at the scattered near-infrared light or 'cloudshine' and was made with ESO's New Technology Telescop...
Title: Optical analysis of the poor clusters Abell 610, Abell 725, and Abell 796, containing diffuse radio sources Authors: W. Boschin, R. Barrena, M. Girardi, M. Spolaor We study the dynamical status of the poor, low X-ray luminous galaxy clusters Abell 610, Abell 725, and Abell 796 (at z=0.1, 0.0...
Title: Suzaku, Chandra, and XMM-Newton Analysis of Abell 2204: The Galaxy Cluster Gas Temperature Profile from 10 kpc to 1800 kpc Authors: T. H. Reiprich, D. S. Hudson, Y.-Y. Zhang, K. Sato, Y. Ishisaki, A. Hoshino, T. Ohashi, N. Ota, Y. Fujita Context: Measurements of intracluster gas temperatur...
The HITSAT Satellite that was launched on the 22nd September 2006, from the Uchinoura Space Centre, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 18th June 2008 @ 08:49 UTC ± 1 hour Expand (98kb, 854 x 5...
Fast-moving protons are much more likely to pair up with fast-moving neutrons than with other protons in the nuclei of atoms, according to a recent experiment performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. The experiment confirms previous theoret...
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