Title: HR 710 (HD 15144): An ultra-Sr-rich, magnetic Ap star with a close companion Authors: C. R. Cowley S. Hubrig The magnetic, chemically peculiar A-star HR 710 (HD 15144, ADS 1849A, AB Cet) has a close companion in a nearly circular orbit. Its 3-day period is unusually short for such stars. The sy...
An Oceola Township man is hoping a tiny rock will become a big find.
Jason Bliss has found what he believes to be a meteorite in the backyard of the home belonging to his fiancees parents.
From a geologists aspect, t...
Catalina Sky Survey Optical Transient with the Mt. Bigelow 0.8m Catalina Schmidt Telescope. The Magnitude: (V ~ 13) object is on the edge of a spiral arm on the Antennae Galaxies Detection Date: 2007-12-18 12:49:10 UT Date: 2007-12-18 UT 12:49:10 Position: RA 12:01:52.80 Dec-18:...
This year Thomas Pola, professor for theology at TU Dortmund, and his team have continued the excavations in the East Jordan Land. With their findings on the mountain Tall adh-Dhahab (West) in the Jabbok Valley the archaeologists could substantiate one assumption: everything points to the fact t...
As a man on a mission to make geology sexy, Dr Iain Stewart isn't doing too badly. Far from hiding away in the dusty confines of academia, the Scottish-born scientist is fast becoming the poster boy for geo-chic, tagged as the "thinking women's crumpet" and amassing an adoring legion of f...
Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science today (Friday 21 December 2007). There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered,...
It's official -- "The Hidden Universe" is no longer a secret. The video podcast series from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Science Centre has reached one million downloads! This series takes viewers on a visually stunning voyage into the infrared universe lurking beyond the realm of h...
Title: Asiago eclipsing binaries program. II. V505 Per Authors: L. Tomasella, U. Munari, A. Siviero, S. Cassisi, S. Dallaporta, T. Zwitter, R. Sordo The orbit and fundamental physical parameters of the double-lined eclipsing binary V505 Per are derived by means of Echelle high resolution, high...
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a stunning rare case of a triple merger of galaxies. This system, which astronomers have dubbed 'The Bird' - albeit it also bears resemblance with a cosmic Tinker Bell - is composed of two massive spiral galaxies...
An enormous sea anemone from 2500m depth on the East Pacific Rise was reported in in the journal Marine Biology. The monstrous actiniarian Boloceroides daphneae is abundant on boulders, cliffs, and rocky outcrops near hydrothermal vent sites but not on them, writes author Marymegan Daly from Ohi...
A petition calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to halt planned cuts in physics and astronomy has attracted more than 3,500 names in its first day. The "e-petition" website launched to voice scientists' opposition to the £80 million cuts will remain open until February 18 next year. A...
A nova in Cygnus has been reported by a Japanese observer, Akihiko Tago. The IAU Central Bureau (CBET 890) reports the nova between Deneb and Gamma Cygni, at Position(2000): RA 20:28:12.52 Dec +41:48:36.5 Magnitude V=7.4 Read more...
The Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, a new centre at the University of Cambridge devoted to the development and testing of fundamental theories of the Universe, was launched yesterday. The event was marked by the unveiling of a bust of Stephen Hawking, who founded the new centre. Cambridge has a...
Star trekking and the next generation The real way to build a knowledge economy, according to former NASA astronaut and advocate of scientific education Joe F Edwards Jr, is to use the source: schoolchildren Not content with having been a Topgun fighter pilot, part of the US Navy Strike Fighter Tact...
