Brazil and Argentina have successfully launched a VS30 Sounding rocket from Brazil's Barreira do Inferno launch centre in northern Rio Grande do Norte state, on Sunday. The joint space mission which was delayed several times since Wednesday by bad weather, lasted 9 minutes, 25 seconds. The Si...
Dunnottar Castle is located on a 50 metres high rocky gabbro promontory jutting out of the east coast of Scotland, into the North Sea.
The site, is connected by a small isthmus to the mainland. Given the defensive quality of the site, it has been home to fortifications of one sort or another for most o...
"The Digital Universe" is an award-winning astronomical simulator package for the Amiga computer. Since release, it has become the standard software package for the amateur and professional astronomer.
With a low price, the makers expect the software to become more accessible to the casual a...
Title: Petrology of ultrahigh-pressure eclogites from the ZK703 drillhole in the Donghai, eastern China Authors: Zhang Zeming, Xu Zhiqin and Xu Huifen The 558-m-deep ZK703 drillhole located near Donghai in the southern part of the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic belt, eastern China, pen...
A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The stellar portrait, seen in infrared light, offers the first glimpse at a very early stage in the life of an embryonic sun-like star -- a time when the star's natal envel...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its unsuccess...
Yesterday, a special exhibition exploring the history of surgery was launched at Aberdeen's Maritime Museum. The exhibition features the archaic tools of the trade and the development of medical treatments like anaesthesia. The exhibition will run until March 15 2008. For more information con...
In Tikal, the ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, dawn is not seen it is heard. First, a roar. Then a responding roar, then another and another not from jaguars, but from howler monkeys, proclaiming their territory. A squeaking counterpoint begins: the raccoonlike coatimundi greeting one a...
Astronomers working with XMM-Newton have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. HI-RES JPG Size: 154 kbX-ray image of th...
QuickTime Alternative 1.66 Final
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
Features of QuickTime Alte...
A type Ia, magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2007sa, was discovered on the 21st November 2007 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search, in the irregular galaxy NGC 3499 in the constellation Ursa Major. The supernova is located 1".8 west and 7".7 north of the nucleus the galaxy. Positi...
UNDERWATER ARTEFACT FOUND Survey of a bottom by means of an underwater videocamera The second purpose of our just-ended Black Sea expedition - search and lifting of a prospective fragment of the UFO which have fallen in water on eyes of eyewitnesses only several years ago. The short background is t...
Dennis Lamenti believes he is the only Native American astronomer in the U.S. with -- or working on -- a graduate degree. He actively has sought others through conferences, speeches and committee meetings and comes up empty handed. But he intends to change that. [url=http://www.economist.com/s...
The University of Glasgow is to mark the centenary of the death of its most illustrious scientist at a wreath-laying ceremony in Westminster Abbey on Monday 17 December. University Principal, Sir Muir Russell and representatives from the University of Glasgow, including the current Kelvin Prof...
1 2
)
(Preview)
