* Astronomy

Fireball over Japan 1/2 March 2008 ; 04:05 local time. Read more Info link by Krzysiek

A problem which has defeated mathematicians for almost 140 years has been solved by a researcher at Imperial College London. Professor Darren Crowdy, Chair in Applied Mathematics, has made the breakthrough in an area of mathematics known as conformal mapping, a key theoretical tool used by mathe...

Indian Space Research Organisation has put off this month's launch of Cartosat-2, the advanced remote sensing satellite, to January due to problems faced during the testing phase. "We have suspended the launch. We don't want to launch it at the middle of the monsoon. Launching will be a little r...

Title: MS, S and C Stars in the Infrared. Luminosities and Mass Loss Rates Authors: R. Guandalini (Department of Physics, University of Perugia) In this note I present an outline of infrared (IR) photometric AGB properties, based on two samples of Galactic Long Period Variables (C- and S-type resp...

Title: CFBDS J005910.90-011401.3: reaching the T-Y Brown Dwarf transition? Authors: Philippe Delorme (LAOG), Xavier Delfosse (LAOG, OSUG), Loic Albert (CFHT), Etienne. Artigau, Thierry Forveille (LAOG, OSUG, CFHT), Céline Reylé (LAOB), France Allard (CRAL), Derek Homeier, Annie Robin (L...

Title: The "Carina Flare" Supershell: Probing the Atomic and Molecular ISM in a Galactic Chimney Authors: J. R. Dawson, N. Mizuno, T. Ohnishi, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Y. Fukui The "Carina Flare" supershell, GSH 287+04-17, is a molecular supershell originally discovere...

Storm Emma swept over Germany and Austria before reaching Switzerland on Friday to Saturday night. Storm Emma Click to Play | View Details Read more

A bright magnitude 13.5, Type Ia supernova, 2008Q, was discovered on the 26th January, 2008, by Giancarlo Cortini, in the galaxy NGC 524 in the constellation Pisces. The supernova is located 160" east and 54" north of the nucleus of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 01h24m57s.23, Dec....

UK rocket company Starchaser Industries may quit New Mexico's spaceport and look for new launch sites in Europe and Florida. Steve Bennett, chief executive of Starchaser Industries indicated that New Mexico might not be the optimum location from which to conduct Starchaser operations. [url=ht...

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to establish a Space and Rocket Research and Development Centre. The new test Centre will be created by merging the Scientific and Research Institute of Chemical Engineering with the Scientific and Research Institute of Chemical and Construction Ma...

Title: Modelling Spitzer observations of VV Ser. I. The circumstellar disk of a UX Orionis star Authors: Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Cornelis P. Dullemond, Geoffrey A. Blake, A. C. Adwin Boogert, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Neal J. Evans, Jacqueline Kessler-Silacci, Fred Lahuis We p...

What is the magic "X factor" that determines which stars become the biggest and brightest in the universe? The answer, new calculations suggest, is how dense their parent gas clouds are. Denser clouds heat up more evenly, preventing the clouds from fragmenting into lots of tiny stars an...

Professor Tim Leighton, of the University of Southamptons Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), will talk about the importance of microphones recording the astonishing sounds of other planets on BBC Radio 4s Leading Edge programme tonight (28 February) at 9pm. The interview forms p...

Title: Subaru/MOIRCS Near-Infrared Imaging in the Proto-Cluster Region at z=3.1 Authors: Yuka Katsuno Uchimoto, Ryuji Suzuki, Chihiro Tokoku, Takashi Ichikawa, Masahiro Konishi, Tomohiro Yoshikawa, Koji Omata, Tetsuo Nishimura, Toru Yamada, Ichi Tanaka, Masaru Kajisawa, Masayuki Akiya...

Murray Balsom was trying to launch a weather balloon when a huge fireball burst across the sky over his small Arctic village of Resolute. "This was humungous[url=http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/nation...