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Solar physicists have observed the smallest ever coronal mass ejection (CME) - a type of explosion where plasma from the Sun is thrown out into space, sometimes striking the Earth and damaging orbiting satellites. The observation has come as a great surprise to scientists and has turned previous i...

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Astronomers have discovered that the magnitude 12, Spectral type K5 single star named BD -22°5866, 166 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, is in actual fact a close orbiting multistellar system. The researchers presented their results at a meeting of the American Astronomical Soci...

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Astronomers have produced a scientific gold mine of detailed, high-quality images of nearby galaxies that is yielding important new insights into many aspects of galaxies, including their complex structures, how they form stars, the motions of gas in the galaxies, the relationship of "no...

STS-51J Space Shuttle Atlantis First Flight Click to Play | View Details October 3, 1985

Expand (112kb, 560 x 359) Expand (43kb, 560 x 359) A Yorkshire archaeological site has artefacts from the ninth century, including silver coins including a silver Baghdad coin, and the fragments of two swords. Known as the Ainsbrook Hoard, it is regarded as one of the most important Viking discove...

HECToR is the UK's new high-end computing resource, funded by the Research Councils and available for researchers at UK universities. The first Phase of HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) was opened in October, 2007. It is a Cray XT4-based system with a peak performance of around 60 T...

Hubble Zooms in on "Blue Blobs" in Space Click to Play | View Details

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. said it completed assembling and testing of a next-generation commercial spy satellite for DigitalGlobe and will deliver the spacecraft for a mid-September launch. The high-resolution spacecraft - initially planned for deployment in 2006 - will launc...

MacDonald, Detwiller & Associates is a Canadian company involved in US$ 1 Billion Robotic Crane for ISS (CanadaArm2 Project). MDA Canada This crane is buggy and the software should be patched to make it work. From CNN: "The cause of the delay -- a $...

A giant dragon capable of killing a rhinoceros is related to the world's largest living lizard, scientists have discovered. The 23ft Megalania prisca, or ancient giant ripper, lived in Australia nearly 20,000 years ago. It was the largest lizard to have stalked the Earth, weighing more than two to...

An Ariane 4 Stage 4 Rocket Body that was launched on the 10th June 1995, from the Centre Spatial Guyanais ELA-2, for the DBS 3 mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 9th January, 2008 @ 18:11 UTC ± 40 minutes Predicted Decay Location 2.8° N, 0.2° E Direction ascending Inc...

The Thor 2R satellite , commissioned for the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, has been arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. According to the Russian Federal Space Agency, the satellite is scheduled to launch it on February 10, aboard a Proton-M Briz-M rocket. Th...

Title: The Tsenkher structure in the Gobi-Altai, Mongolia: Geomorphological hints of an impact origin Authors: Goro Komatsua, John W. Olsenb, Jens Ormöc, Gaetano Di Achillea, David A. Kringd and Takafumi Matsuie The Tsenkher structure, in the Gobi-Altai region of Mongolia, was studied using a...