* Astronomy

Title: SN 2005kd: another very luminous, slowly declining type IIn supernova Authors: D. Yu. Tsvetkov CCD UBVRI photometry is presented for type IIn SN 2005kd. The maximum luminosity exceeded Mv=-19.8, and SN remained brighter than -18 mag for about 400 days. While overall photometric evolutio...

A Russian Kosmos 3M rocket will launch the German SAR-Lupe 4 radar reconnaissance satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, on March 27th, 2008.

Expand (167kb, 800 x 600) Unknown Crater 4.kmz Latitude: 22°52'34.40"S, Longitude: 119°40'31.10"E

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn have detected for the first time a molecule closely related to an amino acid: amino acetonitrile. The organic molecule was found with a 30 metre radio telescope in Spain and two radio interferometers in France and Austra...

Judi Provencal is star-struck, but not so much by the glitz and glam of Hollywood. You have to look heavenward through a telescope to see the object of her fascination--to pale stars called white dwarfs, their brilliance faded because all of their nuclear fuel has been burned up. A white dwarf is a sta...

Title: SDSS 1507+02: A Halo Cataclysmic Variable? Authors: J. Patterson, J. R. Thorstensen, C. Knigge We report a photometric and spectroscopic study of the peculiar cataclysmic variable SDSS 1507+52. The star shows very deep eclipses on the 67 minute orbital period, and those eclipses are easi...

Title: A probable close brown dwarf companion to GJ 1046 (M2.5V) Authors: M. Kürster, M. Endl, S. Reffert Context. Brown dwarf companions to stars at separations of a few AU or less are rare objects, and none have been found so far around early-type M dwarfs M0V-M5V). With GJ 1046 (M2.5V), a strong can...

Meteor crater found in Dukhan: A crater, believed to have been created by the impact of a falling meteor, found near Dukhan. Read more

Title: Spitzer observations of the Massive star forming complex S254-S258: structure and evolution Authors: L. Chavarria, L. Allen, J. L. Hora, C. Brunt, G. G. Fazio We present Spitzer-IRAC, NOAO 2.1meter-Flamingos, Keck-NIRC, and FCRAO-SEQUOIA observations of the massive star forming comp...

Here's a strange scenario: You move farther away from a fire, getting cooler and cooler, until suddenly you are burning up. That's essentially what happens in the sun: Its outer layer, the corona, is inexplicably hot. A new study may complicate things further by poking holes in a leading theory that...

The Gospel of Judas (Iscariot, not Thomas)- said to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of modern times - is about to be published amid explosive controversy, Britain's The Mail on Sunday newspaper revealed yesterday. The 62-page papyrus manuscript of the text was uncovered in Eg...

The Landsat 7 satellite captured this image of Nicholson Crater, in Canadas Northwest Territories on July 6, 2000. The white and light blue areas show ice formation on the lake. The 12.5-kilometer-wide crater was formed 400 million years ago (Devonian or earlier) when a meteor impacted the Earth....

Iranian Space Centre.kmz Google Earth file (1kb, kmz) Expand (130kb, 800 x 600) La...

Title: Confirmation of the binary status of Cha Halpha 2 - a very young low-mass binary in Chamaeleon Authors: T. O. B. Schmidt (1), R. Neuhäuser (1), N. Vogt (2 and 3), A. Seifahrt (1), T. Roell (1), A. Bedalov (1) ((1) Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Astrophysikalisches Institut und Univer...

A third former employee at the NASA Ames Research Centre has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his government computer, authorities said. Read more