Title: The Phoenix Deep Survey: Extremely Red Galaxies and Cluster Candidates Authors: Anthony G. Smith (1), Andrew M. Hopkins (1), Richard W. Hunstead (1), Samuel J. Schmidt (2,3), José Afonso (4,5), Antonis E. Georgakakis (6), Lawrence E. Cram (7), Bahram Mobasher (8), Mark Sullivan (9) ((1) U...
Title: Theoretical interpretation of GRB060124: preliminary results Authors: Roberto Guida, Maria Grazia Bernardini, Carlo Luciano Bianco, Letizia Caito, Maria Giovanna Dainotti, Remo Ruffini We show the preliminary results of the application of our "fireshell" model to GRB06...
On April 10 2008, Tim B Spahr at the Catalina Sky Survey at the Minor Planet Centre, identified a candidate for comet P/1994 J3 = 1994k = 1994 XXVIII, aka Shoemaker 4, discovered in May 1994 by Eugene Shoemaker. Brian Marsden also identified another candidate in the Catalina observing data, dating ...
On Friday 18 November, Sun Laiyan, Administrator of the China National Space Administration, and ESA Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, signed an Intergovernmental Framework Agreement for space cooperation for peaceful purposes.
The signing ceremony took place in the Diao Yu Tai G...
The electric solar wind sail was invented a couple of years ago by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and could soon be used on a test mission Read more The electric solar wind sail developed by Dr. Pekka Janh...
Title: A puzzling millisecond pulsar companion in NGC 6266 Authors: G. Cocozza (1,2), F. R. Ferraro (2), A. Possenti (3), G. Beccari (2), B. Lanzoni (2), S. Ranson (4), R. T. Rood (5), N. D'Amico (3,6), ((1)Dip. di Astronomia Università di Bologna, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna,...
A Russian Soyuz rocket is to launch the Expedition 16 crew and a Malaysian tourist aboard a Soyuz TMA-11 spacecraft to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 13:21 GMT (9:21 a.m. EDT), 10th October. The capsule is to remain at the station for about six months...
Six teams of students are vying for the chance to build an experiment for a satellite that will launch in 2010. The semi-finalists are now required to work up a final proposal for submission in August; an outright winner will be selected by judges in the Autumn. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/s...
Sand Fountain Click to Play | View Details Suddenly, a 9-meter sand fountain appeared, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !
Title: HD 203608, a quiet asteroseismic target in the old galactic disk Authors: B. Mosser, S. Deheuvels, E. Michel, F. Thevenin, M.A. Dupret, R. Samadi, C. Barban, M.J. Goupil A short observing run with the spectrometer Harps at the ESO 3.6-m telescope was conducted in order to continue exploring...
Title: V2324Cyg - an F-type star with fast wind Authors: V.G.Klochkova, E.L.Chentsov, V.E.Panchuk For the first time high-resolution optical spectroscopy of the variable star V2324Cyg associated with the IR-source IRAS20572+4919 is made. More than 200 absorption features (mostly FeII, TiI...
Title: Oscillations in Beta UMi - Observations with SMEI Authors: N. J. Tarrant, W. J. Chaplin, Y. Elsworth, S. A. Spreckley, I. R. Stevens Aims: From observations of the K4III star Beta UMi we attempt to determine whether oscillations or any other form of variability is present. Methods: A high-qu...
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