The Rascom 1 satellite is due to be launched in April 2006 by the Chinese launch service provider China Great Wall Industry Corp.
It is planned to be launched atop a Long March rocket.
Rascom-1 the first African satellite telecommunication system will offer the capability to provide fixed vo...
Title: A deep Chandra observation of Abell 4059: a new face to radio-mode AGN feedback? Authors: Christopher S. Reynolds (Maryland), Elyse A. Casper, Sebastian Heinz (Wisconsin) A deep Chandra observation of the cooling core cluster Abell 4059 (A4059) is presented. Previous studies have found...
Title: The pseudobulge of NGC 1292 Authors: L. Morelli (1), E. Pompei (2), A. Pizzella (1), J. Méndez-Abreu (1), (3), E. M. Corsini (1), L. Coccato (4), R. P. Saglia (4), M. Sarzi (5), F. Bertola (1) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Padova, (2) European Southern Observatory, (3) INAF-...
Like a fork piercing a fried egg, a giant finger of hydrogen gas is poking through our Milky Way Galaxy from outside, astronomers using CSIRO radio telescopes at Parkes and Narrabri have found. The location of the intrusion may give a crucial clue to the fate of the little galaxies the gas flows from, t...
A bilateral agreement between Russia and South Korea was signed on Tuesday authorizing the building of a space centre in South Korea and the training of a Korean astronaut for a mission at the International Space Station (ISS).
An inter-governmental commission outlined the two projects in a p...
After years cutting of budgets for tracking global warming, President Bush on Monday proposed more than a $1 billion increase over the next five years for launching more and better Earth-observing satellites. The president's 2009 budget provides money for six new NASA satellites to watch Earth'...
The Holy Grail in Rome The sacred vessel, which throughout the centuries has inspired crusades, legends, endless searches as to its true whereabouts, ancient and modern bestsellers, may after all be in Rome, according to Italian archaeologist Alfredo Barbagallo. [url=http://www.wantedinro...
Title: The double-mode RR Lyrae variable BS Com Authors: I. Dékány We present the frequency analysis of the multicolour time series photometry of the field RRd variable BS Comae. The large number of data points in each of the BV(RI)_c bands and the ~0.01 magnitude accuracy of the individual measure...
AM Herculis is going into outburst. AM Herculis is the prototype of the class of Variable stars known as Polars. Magnetic non-disc Cataclysmic Variable's. It's visual range is 12.0-16.0. Expand (86kb, 560 x 56...
35 km east of Doğubayazıt, Turkey, 4 km west of the Iranian border, is a large crater was supposedly formed due to a meteor fall in 1892.
The crater has a width of 55 m, and depth of 60 m.
Latitude 39.420656° Longitude 44.401764°
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According to ancient legend, Buddha invited all the animals to a New Year's banquet. Of the 12 that attended, the Rat (or mouse) was the first to arrive. The Buffalo, Tiger, Cat, Dragon, Serpent, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig followed. People in ancient Asia began celebrating The Lunar N...
Jin Beize (Beijing Technology and University Business) has announced the discovery of a comet by CAT Tao Chen (Suzhou City, Jiangsu province, China) on a CCD image taken on February 01, 2008 by Xing Gao (Urumqi, Xinjiang province) using a wide-field 7-cm, 200-mm-f.l., f/2.8 camera lens and 350D...
Aspen High Schools planetarium has come a long way since it originally was built in the mid-1960s. With a new projector recently installed in the former planetarium, images from the famed Hubble Space Telescope or a perfect representation of the night sky can be projected onto the ceiling. [url=ht...
If the name "2007 TK238" rings no bells, that would not be surprising. What is surprising, however, is that it was students here at Northfield Mount Hermon School, not some established astronomer, who discovered an asteroid subsequently identified with that number-filled name. [url...