The HotPay2 project is part of a EU financed scientific program called eARI. The projects are owned, managed and operated by ARR. The HotPay2 payload consists of nine instruments packages which are designed to study a number of scientific questions After a short hold the count proceeded straight d...
Experts have restored a 1,400-year-old glass mosaic glowing in gold, recovered from a site next to the Sea of Galilee, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday. Read more
Asteroid number 4913 has been renamed Wang Xuan Star by the International Asteroid Centre. The name had been put forward by the China Association for Science and Technology, Beijing University. The asteroid was discovered by the Zijinshan Observatory run by the Chinese Academy of Science...
The shaking felt Thursday afternoon in areas near Lake Mendota was most likely an ice quake, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists. A tremor was recorded by a geology department seismometer at 12:50 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008, and lasted approximately two or three seconds. [...
Right, before we begin, this is what you need to know. One light year equals the seconds in one year (31,556 926) x 186,000 (miles). Or... wait for it... 5,878,625, 373,183 and a bit miles. The sun is eight light MINUTES away, the moon 250,000 miles. Or one-and-a-half light SECONDS, if you prefer. Why i...
Named for Ralph Buckstaff, an Oshkosh astronomer, Buckstaff planetarium was completed in 1964. The planetarium is available for students, faculty and the community to use. It serves as an Astronomy and Space Science Education Resource Centre. The planetarium is an outreach unit of the Departme...
The diffuse object found by Andrea Boatitini on images taken by the Catalina Sky Survey on February 01, 2008, was confirmed by later observations by Tim Spahr , and linked with an object having the appearance of an asteroid found by Catalina on November 03, 2007. The orbital elements of comet P/2007 V...
Title: How peculiar is the "peculiar variable" DZ Crucis (Nova Cru 2003)? Authors: M. T. Rushton, A. Evans, S. P. S. Eyres, J. Th. van Loon, B. Smalley The variable star DZ Cru was thought to be a nova when it was discovered in eruption in 2003 August. This explanation was later challenged, h...
The January Night Sky January is a fair month for viewing the planets. Mars, Saturn and Venus are visible all month. Jupiter will be visible in the morning sky for all but the start of the month. Mercury may just be visible in the evening twilight around the middle of the month. The Earth is at perihelion...
Title: Towards a Small Prototype Planet Finding Interferometer: The next step in planet finding and characterisation in the infrared Authors: W.C. Danchi, D. Deming, K. G. Carpenter, R. K. Barry, P. Hinz, K. J. Johnston, P. Lawson, O. Lay, J. D. Monnier, L. J. Richardson, S. Rinehart, W. Traub Duri...
Meteorite throws Vaucluse into a panic. Over several hours, alerted by inhabitants, local firemen searched for a crashed plane was in fact, only a meteorite. The meteor flew over Vaucluse, Gap, Montélimar and Lyon, and landed at an unseen location. The meteorite threw the area in the South-east of...
Tropical Storm Gene is forecast to make landfall in Vanuatu probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 80% within hours Lenakel (19.5 S, 169.3 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 24 hours probability for TS is 75% in abou...
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