A rare white stag, thought to be one of only a handful in Britain, has been filmed at a secret location in the Highlands. The "ghost-like" red deer was spotted on the west coast of Scotland, but its location is being kept secret to prevent it becoming a target for poachers. [url=http://www....
Title: Giant AGN Flares and Cosmic Ray Bursts Authors: Glennys R. Farrar, Andrei Gruzinov (Version v2) We predict a new class of intense, short-duration AGN flares resulting from the tidal disruption of a star or from a disk instability, and show that the rate and power of these flares can readily ex...
Title: Does the period of BE Lyncis really vary? Authors: R. Szakáts, Gy.M. Szabó, K. Szatmáry New photometric series of BE Lyncis are presented. With template curve fitting we re-determined the O-C for BE Lyncis. The phase shift diagram is apparently constant, disproving the suspected period va...
Title: High-Velocity Interstellar Bullets in IRAS05506+2414: A Very Young Protostar Authors: Raghvendra Sahai, Mark Claussen, Carmen Sánchez Contreras, Mark Morris, Geetanjali Sarkar We have made a serendipitous discovery of an enigmatic outflow source, IRAS 05506+2414 (hereafter IRAS 0...
1 Journey in Space and Time-Carl Sagan's Cosmos Click to Play | View Details 2 Journey in Space and Time-Carl Sagan's Cosmos Click to Play | View Details 3 Journey in Space and Time-Carl Sagan's Cosmos Click to Play | View Details
A total of 539 people are being taken off the Safe Scandinavia in an operation involving 13 helicopters and a fixed wing aircraft. They are being transported to other rigs in the area. The operation, 130 miles off the Aberdeen coast, began at 0920 GMT on Sunday and is being co-ordinated by Grampian Pol...
AAS 211th Meeting: LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture for Historical Astronomy: Astronomy and its History on the Nation's Mall Click to Play | View Details AAS 211th Meeting: The Search for Extrasolar Earths Click to Play | View Details
A team of Japanese astronomers resolved a circumstellar disk around the young lightweight star FN Tau. The diminutive star is located in a star-forming region toward the Constellation Taurus at a distance 460 light years from Earth. This research group (Note 1) used the Coronagraphic Imager with...
Title: RZ Cassiopeia: Eclipsing Binary with Pulsating Component Authors: A. Golovin, E. Pavlenko We report time-resolved VR-band CCD photometry of the eclipsing binary RZ Cas obtained with 38-cm Cassegrain telescope at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory during July 2004 - October 2005. O...
Ag3Co(CN)6 Most materials contract when they are cooled and get bigger when they are warmed up. But some substances do the opposite by shrinking in certain directions as they are heated and expanding when cooled. Now researchers in the UK have found an inorganic crystalline material composed of si...
The Express-AM22 satellite that was launched on 28th December, 2003, has had a gyro failure. The satellite orbits geosynchronously at 53°E and provided communications services such as digital TV, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, and Internet access. The satellite was oper...
The sounding rocket Texus 44 was successfully launched today from the Swedish Space Corporation's launch facility Esrange Space Centre in northern Sweden. The launch took place at 11:30 (UT) and the rocket provided 376 seconds of weightlessness time for the 4 experiments on board. The Texus proj...
Title: Andromeda XVII: A New Low Luminosity Satellite of M31 Authors: Mike Irwin, Annette Ferguson, Avon Huxor, Nial Tanvir, Rodrigo Ibata, Geraint Lewis We report the discovery of a new dwarf spheroidal galaxy near M31 based on INT/WFC imaging. The system, Andromeda XVII (And XVII), is located a...
Yesterday, the 13-metre wide asteroid 2008 CT1 flew past the Earth at a distance of only 72000 miles (0.3 lunar distances) away. The small asteroid was discovered on 3 February by LINEAR. MPEC 2008-C32 [url=http://ssd.jpl.n...
