An archaeological dig in Cambridge has uncovered surprising ancient remains and the foundations of the world's largest telescope of the late Victorian era.
Archaeologists from the University of Cambridge Archaeological Unit, recently working at the site of the new Kavli Institute for Cosmol...
The 28th Progress cargo ship will launch atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 13:02 GMT (8:02 EST) 5th February 2008. The Progress M-63/28P will re-supply the International Space Station. 4th February 2008-- Progress M-62/27P undocking (10:30 GMT) &...
Title: Orbit of Binary 15 Monocerotis Authors: Zorica Cvetkovc, Istvan Vince, Slobodan Ninkovic In the paper new orbital elements obtained from speckle interferometric measurements only for 15 Mon are reported. For this binary they were determined earlier by combining spectroscopic and spec...
The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever s...
Title: Clarifying the nature of the brightest submillimetre sources: interferometric imaging of LH850.02 Authors: J. D. Younger, J. S. Dunlop, A. B. Peck, R. J. Ivison, A. D. Biggs, E. L. Chapin, D. L. Clements, S. Dye, T. R. Greve, D. H. Hughes, D. Iono, I. Smail, M. Krips, G. R. Petitpas, D. Wilner, A...
Title: The Structure of the DoAr 25 Circumstellar Disk Authors: Sean M. Andrews, A. M. Hughes, D. J. Wilner, Chunhua Qi We present high spatial resolution (< 0.3" = 40$ AU) Submillimeter Array observations of the 865 micron continuum emission from the circumstellar disk around the young s...
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS satellite lifted off at 8:23 a.m. EDT. "Looking good," said the commentator as the solid rocket motors separated. The spacecraft will separate after 68 minutes and the modernised GPS satellite will be in service within two weeks. [u...
Title: A HST study of the environment of the Herbig Ae/Be star LkHa 233 and its bipolar jet Authors: Stanislav Yu. Melnikov, Jens Woitas, Jochen Eislöffel, Francesca Bacciotti, Ugo Locatelli, Thomas P. Ray We present the results of HST/STIS and WFPC2 observations of LkHa 233 and its environment. L...
An eagle-eyed 7DAYS reader believes she could hold the answer to the mysterious fate of thousands of dead fish that were washed up on a beach in Jumeirah. Chenine Groenewald pictured what she thought was a meteorite falling from the sky on Monday. It coincides with the unusual sight of thousands of sm...
TAL-100RS 100mm (4") Refractor The TAL-1OORS is a improved version of the popular TAL-1OOR, featuring a dual-fit 1.25/2" extended travel focuser and internal baffling for enhanced image quality. The telescope features a multi-coated air-spaced achromatic doublet objective lens...
Astronomers have spied a faraway star system that is so unusual, it was one of a kind -- until its discovery helped them pinpoint a second one that was much closer to home. In a paper published in a recent issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Ohio State University astronomers and their colleagu...
Title: The Unique Frequency Spectrum of the Blazhko RRc Star LS Her Authors: Patrick Wils, Stelios Kleidis, Eric Broens The Blazhko effect in RR Lyrae stars is still poorly understood theoretically. Stars with multiple Blazhko periods or in which the Blazhko effect itself varies are particularl...
