A small meteorite that recently landed in a village in Mulas Fethiye district will be analysed by the Mining Exploration Institute (MTA), stated an official from the region. Fethiye Deputy District Governor Halil brahim Çomaktekin reported that the meteorite fell in the Türbe neighbourhood of Y...
Four new comets were discovered on NRL/SECCHI images taken by various remote instruments (HI1-A, COR2-A, HI1-B, COR2-B) on the STEREO-A and STEREO-B satellites. C/2008 D1 (STEREO) - Alan Watson - HI1-A, February 16, 2008 (20:09-23:29 UTC)...
An ornately carved Neolithic stone, found in Westray in 1981, is to return to the island. After more than 25 years in the Orkney Museum, the Westray Stone will be exhibited in Westrays new heritage centre, which is within a mile of where part of the s...
Edwards Air Force Base is a United States Air Force airbase located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley, 11 km due east of Rosamond. An airbase since 1933, Edwards has long been a home for flight research and testing and has subsequently been home to ma...
Title: The structural properties and star formation history of Leo T from deep LBT photometry Authors: J. T. A. de Jong, J. Harris, M. G. Coleman, N. F. Martin, E. F. Bell, H-W. Rix, J. M. Hill, E. D. Skillman, D. J. Sand, E. W. Olszewski, D. Zaritsky, D. Thompson, E. Giallongo, R. Ragazzoni, A. DiPaola,...
Title: Seoul National University Bright Quasar Survey in Optical (SNUQSO) I: First Phase Observations and Results Authors: Induk Lee, Myungshin Im, Minjin Kim, Eugene Kang, Hyunjin Shim, Gordon T. Richards, Alastair C. Edge, Myung Gyoon Lee, Changbom Park, Myeong-Gu Park We present results fr...
Title: Hen 2-104: A close-up look at the Southern Crab Authors: M. Santander-Garcia, R. L. M. Corradi, A. Mampaso, C. Morisset, U. Munari, M. Schirmer, B. Balick, M. Livio The kinematics, shaping, density distribution, expansion distance, and ionised mass of the nebula Hen 2-104, and the nature o...
A faint new comet was discovered on the 2nd March 2008 by R. E. Hill of the Catalina Sky Survey, which was confirmed by other observers. The preliminary orbital elements of comet C/2008 E1 (Catalina) indicate a perihelion passage on October 29, 2008 with the distance from 4.8 AU from the Sun, and visua...
Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary nebula NGC 2371. The remnant star visible at the centre of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its...
New Aurora observatory opened The new Kjell Henriksen Aurora Observatory on Svalbard has been officially opened by the Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher education, Tora Aasland Read more
The Workshop on the Early Solar System Impact Bombardment will be held September 15-17, 2008, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), located in the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) building, 3600 Bay Area Boulevard, Houston, Texas. [url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meeting...
A scientific research helicopter has crashed in Antarctica, killing its German pilot and a Dutch technician. Jan Boon of the Netherlands Institute for Undersea Research says the cause of the crash is not known. Three others were injured in Sunday's accident, which happened under clear skies. The...
'Super-LOTIS' Telescope on Kitt Peak Helps Catch Exploding Stars
University of Arizona astronomers are using NASA's Swift satellite and the Kitt Peak telescope called "Super-LOTIS" to see stars almost as they explode.
Until very recently, astronomers saw supernovae explosions after a...
Mechdyne Corporation today announced that it has installed an immersive CAVE display system as the focal point of the new Fossett Laboratory for Virtual Planetary Exploration at Washington University St. Louis (WUSTL). As a teaching and research facility of the Department of Earth & Planet...
Teachers and pupils at a Birmingham school will this week be analysing fragments of "meteor" ice which crashed into a playing field, narrowly missing stunned pupils. It ploughed into the field at Yardleys Secondary School, in Tyseley, yesterday. [url=http://www.birminghammail.n...
