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The 1.6 km wide Apollo asteroid 4450 Pan (1987 SY) will make a flyby of the Earth on February 19th 2008, at a distance of 15.9 lunar distances (0.0408 AU) The asteroid will appear as a magnitude 13 star in the constellation Lepus, and be viewa...

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**Astronomy - Saturn Fly over 31 Jan 2008** **Click to Play | View Details**

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Title: X-rays from magnetically channelled winds of OB stars Authors: David H. Cohen (Swarthmore College) OB stars with strong radiation-driven stellar winds and large-scale magnetic fields generate strong and hard X-ray emission via the Magnetically Channelled Wind Shock (MCWS) mechanism...

WinAros offers a preinstalled HD Image with Aros. This Version uses the free downloadable Version of Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 instead of QEMU. Virtual PC offers more options and easier configuration. You have to download Virtual PC by yourself. [url=http://amidevcpp.amiga-world...

A bright magnitude 14.6, Type Ia supernova, 2008R, was discovered on the 27th January, 2008, by Koichi Itagaki, in the SA(s)0 galaxy NGC 1200 in the constellation Eridanus. The supernova is located 12" west and 9" south of the nucleus of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 03h03m53s.70,...

Sunspot 10982 has emerging from the Sun's eastern limb. Expand (114 kb, 560 x 560) Credit NASA/SOHO

Title: The embedded cluster DBSB48 in the nebula Hoffleit18: comparison with Trumpler14 Authors: S. Ortolani, C. Bonatto, E. Bica, Y. Momany, B. Barbuy We derive fundamental parameters of the embedded cluster DBSB48 in the southern nebula Hoffleit18 and the very young open cluster Trumpler14,...

Title: Hubble Space Telescope STIS Spectroscopy of Long Period Dwarf Novae in Quiescence Authors: E. M. Sion, B. T. Gaensicke, K. S. Long, P. Szkody, C. Knigge, I. Hubeny, D. Demartino, Godon Patrick We present the results of a synthetic spectral analysis of HST STIS spectra of five long period dwar...

Many of the achievements of Arabic science often come as a surprise. For instance, while no one can doubt the genius of Copernicus and his heliocentric model of the solar system in heralding the age of modern astronomy, it is not commonly known that he relied on work carried out by Arab astronomers man...

A group of astronomers at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) has discovered a huge planet in the star system Gliese 22, Spain's EFE news agency reported Wednesday. The finding has been reported in the Astronomy and Astrophysics magazine. [url=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php...

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Sputnik's designer forgotten Natalia Koroleva wants you to know her father's name You probably don't know the name of Natalia Koroleva's father, and that makes her sad. That's why she's here. That's why the prominent surgeon/medical school professor came all the way from Moscow to tell you about h...

Mars could be in for an asteroid hit. A newly discovered asteroid, known as 2007 WD5, has a 1 in 75 chance of impacting into the Red Planet on Jan. 30. "These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track ... threatening asteroids" - Steve Chesley, an astr...