The analysis of the youngest pair of identical twin stars yet discovered has revealed surprising differences in brightness, surface temperature and possibly even the size of the two. The study, which is published in the June 19 issue of the journal Nature, suggests that one of the stars formed sign...
Getting scooped is an ongoing occupational hazard for astronomers. A interesting idea pops into your head, or a significant peak starts to emerge in a periodogram, and you drop everything to do an analysis and write up your idea or discovery for submission. Huge Applet, Unsearchable Terrestrials...
Archaeological tools dating back to the Stone Age have been discovered in the east of Sharjah near the Hajar Mountains, officials announced yesterday.
A group of experts from Sharjah's Archaeology Department, Tubingen University in Germany and Oxford University in England discovered the pr...
Britain and Norway created a £108m fund yesterday to help save the world's second largest rainforest, central Africa's Congo basin, with the help of satellite imaging technology. The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative to...
Title: NSV 13983: A New Dwarf Nova in the Period Gap Authors: C. Contreras, C. Tappert Aims. NSV 13983 is catalogued as a dwarf nova based on a reported outburst from 2005. The system has not yet been studied spectroscopically. We attempt to confirm its nature as a dwarf nova and determine its orbital p...
On Wednesday night, at sunset look for a giant Moon rising in the east. The Moon's size at the horizon looks larger than when it climbs higher up into the sky. If you wonder why this famous moon illusion occurs, you should read the following article, for, as illusion researchers know, a new explanatio...
Title: Trigonometric Parallaxes for Two Late-Type Subdwarfs: LSR1425+71 (sdM8.0) and the Binary LSR1610-00 (sd?M6pec) Authors: C.C. Dahn, H.C. Harris, S.E. Levine, T. Tilleman, A.K.B. Monet, R.C. Stone, H.H. Guetter, B. Canzian, J.R. Pier, W.I. Hartkopf, J. Liebert, M. Cushing Trigonometr...
Title: IRAS04325+2402C: A very low mass object with an edge-on disk Authors: Alexander Scholz (SUPA, University of St. Andrews), Ray Jayawardhana (Toronto), Kenneth Wood (St. Andrews), David Lafreniere (Toronto), Katharina Schreyer (Jena), Rene Doyon (Montreal) IRAS04325+2402C is a low lu...
European astronomers in search of "dark regions" on the planet to make observations of the universe easier, away from the artificial light emissions of major urban centres, have discovered the Pindos mountain range running across much of the Epirus province, with Mt. Orliakas in Grev...
A marine scientist has discovered a series of mysterious stone patterns on the lake bed of drought-stricken Lake Kinneret. The man-made piles of stone, which are now above water, jut out from the freshwater lake, and sit 30 meters from each other along a 3.5-kilometer stretch of the eastern shore, f...
16-19 June 2008 Symposium In September 2005 a consortium of European funding agencies started the four-year ERA-Net project called ASTRONET. The aim of ASTRONET is to come to a concise European plan for the next 15-20 years on astronomy in its widest form, encompassing all energies (from radio to g...
Imagine an extract from a berry that would make sour things taste sweet and help you lose weight. Read more Sideroxylon dulcificum / Synsepalum dulcificum-- Edited by Blobrana at 19:19, 2008-06-16
Researchers have found that comets show a periodic change in brightness linked with the rotation of the sun.
Using 600 observations of brightness outbursts of comets between 1927-2004, a mean period of brightness outburst activity of comets was determined.
The value of this period is T = 6.8d...
