A possible outburst of Z Andromedae is underway. Z Andromedae.kmz Google Sky file Z Andromedae is a symbiotic variable star with an hourglass shaped nebula. It is the prototype for symbiotic variables, which are a subset of cataclysmic vari...
According to "Polska" daily newspaper, Polish deputies gathered in the Outer Space Team are planning to set up a national space agency, similar to the American NASA. Poland participates in the PECS (Plan for European Cooperating State Charter) programme carried out by the European Sp...
This astronaut photograph of Cosiguina volcano was acquired on November 17, 2007, with a Kodak 760C digital camera using an 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory. On the southern boundary of the Gulf of Fonseca is a...
Experts are trying to identify a huge metal container that has been washed up on a beach in the Western Isles. The tank, which is 27m high, has no markings and is thought to have fallen from a ship before being washed up on the west of Benbecula. It was discovered by a dog walker on Poll Na Crann beach - known...
CME December 31, 2007 Click to Play | View Details The STEREO-A spacecraft has imaged a bright CME emerging from behind the Suns eastern limb -- Edited by Blobrana at 20:05, 2007-12-31
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Some scholars, such as Dr. Delbert Hillers (John Hopkins University) of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the editors of the Oxford & Harper Collins translations, contend that the number 666 is a code for emperor [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
Earth and Mars are converging December is Mars month. Look in the constellation Gemini on the first of the month at 8 p.m. About 20 degrees above the horizon, you will see Mars right on Castor's leg. Mars will make its closest 2007 approach to Earth this month, on Dec. 19, and should be a great telescopic...
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civilization at the bottom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyrgyz mountains in Russia. According to a report in RIA Novosti, the team consisted of Kyrgyz historians, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice president of the Kyrgyz Academy of S...
Carn Llechart burial chamber is located on the top of Carn Llechart Mountain northwest of the village of Pontardawe in the upper Swansea valley (SN 698 063). This magnificent ring cairn consists of a central rectangular cist orientated 24 degrees west of magnetic north surrounded by a circular cro...
Emulation of the onboard Apollo guidance computers, along with some ancillary items needed to make the emulation do something interesting. "AGC" stands for Apollo Guidance Computer. The AGC was the principal onboard computer for NASA's Apollo missions, including all of the lunar...
The European Space Agency (ESA) is considering a proposal to cooperate with Russia on the development of a new manned spacecraft that could give ESA for the first time its own independent means of launching humans into space.
The British newspaper The Observer reported that the ESA Council will t...
Astronomers around the world celebrated 2007 as International Helio-physical Year. Some remarkable events took place in the past year. Comet McNaught surprised us all by showing up in broad daylight in the beginning of the year. It was the most brilliant comet seen in 40 years. Comet Holmes made a b...
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