Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore has sent a message of congratulations to a group of South Yorkshire enthusiasts celebrating 30 years of stargazing. Mexborough and Swinton Astronomical Association is organising a special celebration event later this month with leading speakers from the science w...
Rather than wait for stargazers to come to them, the Lake County Astronomical Society recently started ambushing innocent bystanders outside public libraries around the county with their large telescopes aimed at the moon and Saturn. The free peeks into space elicited "ooo's" and &...
Title: Swift uncovers that SAX J0840.7+2248 is not an X-ray Binary, but BeppoSAX X-ray Rich GRB 980429 Authors: P. Romano, C. Guidorzi, L. Sidoli, E. Montanari, F. Capitanio, L. Amati, A. Cucchiara, F. Frontera, N. Masetti, S. Mereghetti, F. Rossi During our Swift/XRT program to obtain X-...
A 25-million-year-old fossil has revealed that a predecessor of Australias iconic hopping kangaroo once galloped on all fours, had dog-like fangs and possibly climbed trees, scientists have reported. This is really the great, great, great, great grandfather of modern kangaroos - Ben Kear, La T...
Superconductivity in Super Hard Diamond T A Study calculates that boron-doped diamond (BC5) should be superconducting on up to temperatures of 45 K, which, if borne out in experiments, would make this class of material with the highest with the highest transition temperature into a superconduct...
The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Programor B.E.A.R. for shortin December 2007. The program's aim was to launch a high altitude balloon equipped with two amateur radio signals and more from Poker Flat Research Range in the s...
If you have a pair of binoculars, there are a lot of things you can see in the night sky. And if you have a passion or interest in finding those objects, Roger LeBlanc may have just the thing for you. The local astronomy enthusiast is moving ahead with his plan to start a club featuring the hobby. [url=http...
Title: RXJ1648.7+6109: Witnessing the Formation of a Massive Group/Poor Cluster and its Brightest Galaxy Authors: T.E. Jeltema, J.S. Mulchaey, L.M. Lubin Using deep Chandra and optical spectroscopic observations, we investigate an intriguing, young massive group, RXJ1648.7+6109, at z=0....
Title: PSR J1410-6132: A young, energetic pulsar associated with EGRET source 3EG J1410-6147 Authors: J.T. O'Brien, S. Johnston, M. Kramer, A.G. Lyne, M. Bailes, A. Possenti, M. Burgay, D.R. Lorimer, M.A. McLaughlin, G. Hobbs, D. Parent, L. Guillemot We present the discovery of...
A 2.2-metre high tidal wave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the city government and citizens tried to hold the water back with emergency embankments, a government official said on Wednesday. The height of the water was far greater than earlier predictions. The World Bank, which has been m...
Weizmann Institute physicists have demonstrated, for the first time, the existence of 'quasiparticles' with one quarter the charge of an electron. This finding could be a first step toward creating exotic types of quantum computers that might be powerful, yet highly stable. Fractional electro...
Title: Discovery of a widely separated UCD-WD binary Authors: A. C. Day-Jones, D. J. Pinfield, R. Napiwotzki, B. Burningham, J. S. Jenkins, H. R. A. Jones, S. L. Folkes, D. J. Weights, J. R. A. Clarke We present the discovery of the widest known ultracool dwarf - white dwarf binary. This binar...
University of California, Berkeley, scientists quietly switched off one of the campus's working satellites in April, ending a 10-year series of ups and downs for NASA's first and only low-cost, university-class Explorer spacecraft. The Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite...
Astronomers Weigh the Coldest Brown Dwarfs Astronomers have used ultrasharp images obtained with the Keck Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to determine for the first time the masses of the coldest class of "failed stars," a.k.a. brown dwarfs. With masses as light as 3 percent the m...
A moth found on only four previous occasions since 1853 has been rescued from a spider's web close to where it was first recorded. The black-winged and orange bodied Ethmia pyrausta is so rare it has gained almost mythical status, said Butterfly Conservation Scotland (BCS). [url=http://news.bbc...
