One of the more hidden features of the PlayStation 3's 2.10 firmware update is the spectacular Earth-based music visualiser, seen in motion on multiple user-posted YouTube videos and in stills in the pictures below. PS3 Earth Visualizer Click to Play | View Details The feature's creator, Kyoto-b...
A team of astronomers has been given a multi-million pound grant to "answer the riddles of the cosmos". The scientists from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have been given the £2.5m by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. The scientists, based in LJMU's Astrophysic...
Title: A Massive Neutron Star in the Globular Cluster M5 Authors: Paulo C. C. Freire, Alex Wolszczan, Maureen van den Berg, Jason W. T. Hessels We report the results of 18 years of Arecibo timing of two pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 5904 (M5), PSR B1516+02A and PSR B1516+02B. This has allowed the...
Astronomers find jets everywhere when they look into space. Small jets spout from newborn stars, while huge jets blast out of the centres of galaxies. Yet despite their commonness, the processes that drive them remain shrouded in mystery. Even relatively nearby stellar jets hide their origins be...
Nova Vul 2007 #2 = V459 Vul CBET 1181 announces the discovery of a nova in the constellation of the Vulpecula (Fox) by Hiroshi Kaneda. Position(2000): R.A. = 19h48m08s.89, Dec. = +21o15'26".8 The nova is at approximately magnitude 8. The first spectra observations suggest that the nova is pro...
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket in a 7925 vehicle configuration will launch the NAVSTAR GPS 2R-18 (M5) (Global Positioning System Block 2R) military navigation satellite from SLC-17A, Cape Canaveral, Florida at 19:59-20:13 GMT (14:59-15:13 EST), 20th December, 2007. The Global...
Starsem has announces today the signing of a contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd (MDA) for the launch of MDA's RADARSAT-2 Earth observation satellite by a Soyuz launch vehicle.
The launch is planned to take place in December 2006 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Th...
One of the most distant stars thats visible to the unaided eye is also one of the most dramatic. A few years ago, astronomers watched as the star blasted hot gas into space -- enough material to make up all the planets and moons in our solar system 20 times over. The star is called Rho Cassiopeia -- Rho Cas f...
China has successfully launched the Yaogan III remote sensing satellite aboard a Long March-4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province at 6:48 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Monday. The 2,700-kilogram satellite entered the preset orbit 21 minutes late...
Russia has test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Russian military officials say. The launch took place at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia at 1420 (1020 GMT) on Tuesday. The missile, called RS-24, can be armed with up to 10 warheads and was designed to evade missile de...
A nineteenth century map in a North Wales town hall could unravel one of Celtic historys most enduring mysteries the location of the legendary Land of the Dead. The map at Llangollen town hall could potentially rewrite the history of one of the worlds greatest hidden landmarks, a Celtic history expe...
A magnitude 15.0 supernova, 2007st, was discovered on the 22nd December, 2007, by Berto Monard, in the spiral galaxy NGC 692, in the constellation Phoenix. It is located 4" east and 4" South of the nucleus. Position(2000): RA 01h48m42s Dec +48°38'57".8 As yet the type is unknown NG...
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