An intergalactic particle beam stretching for more than a million light years is the longest ever seen. According to the team that discovered this record breaker, it could help reveal how such jets of matter bind themselves together. Jets are seen all over the cosmos squirting out of many different...
The only surviving copy of the 500-year-old map that first used the name America goes on permanent display this month at the Library of Congress, but even as it prepares for its debut, the 1507 Waldseemuller map remains a puzzle for researchers. Why did the mapmaker name the territory America and the...
Tropical Cyclone Daman is forecast to make landfall in Fiji within 6 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% probability for TS is 100% currently Naduri (16.4 S, 179.2 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 95% within 6 hours probability for TS is 100% within 6 hours [url=http://farm3.static.flic...
Reaching up to the Meade LX200 16-inch telescope, Nathan Guillemette watched Venus in awe. It kind of looks like a flower, the 10-year-old Hope Valley boy said, his eyes fixed on the planet, second from the sun and considered Earths sister planet. Its wobbling, explained Les Coleman, director of Fr...
Title: New Light Curves and Spectra of the close PG1159 Binary System SDSSJ212531.92-010745.9 Authors: Sonja Schuh, Thorsten Nagel, Iris Traulsen, Benjamin Beeck Methods to measure masses of PG1159 stars in order to test evolutionary scenarios are currently based on spectroscopic masses or a...
Adobe Acrobat 8 will debut today, Sept. 19th.
Adobe will launch Adobe Acrobat 8 in Italy on September 19th, according an Italian Mac enthusiast site. Adobe Italy has reportedly sent invitations to the press for an event in Milan which will mark the presentation of Adobe Acrobat 8, promising to r...
A bright Type IIb magnitude 14.3 supernova, 2007rw, was discovered on the 29th November 2007, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the galaxy UGC 7798 in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 4".3 east and 8&qu...
COMET P/2006 W4 = P/1993 D1 (HILL) R. E. Hill reported the discovery of the comet in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey (discovery observation below), the object was noted as having a tail about 15" long to the west-northwest. The object was been found to show cometary appearance by other CC...
Anthropogenic biome maps Online Map Viewers for Anthropogenic BiomesView in Google EarthDOWNLOAD GOOGLE EARTH To use Google Earth, it must first be installed on your computer. Read more
Title: GRB 070724B: the first Gamma Ray Burst localized by SuperAGILE and its Swift X-ray Afterglow Authors: E. Del Monte, M. Feroci, L. Pacciani, Y. Evangelista, I. Donnarumma, P. Soffitta, E. Costa, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, M. Rapisarda, A. Argan, G. Barbiellini, M. Basset, A. Bulgarelli, P....
Russia has launched a Molniya-M carrier rocket with 2BL upper stage and a Kosmos military (Oko) satellite aboard from the Plesetsk space centre on Tuesday morning. The satellite entered orbit about one hour later. The launching of the carrier with a military satellite was made from the northern co...
When University of California, Berkeley, astrophysicist George Smoot received the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics a year ago, his dreams for spending his $700,000 share of the prize ran far beyond purchasing a sporty car or a new home. Instead, he wanted to create a lasting centre where he and other scie...
Meteor showers lit up the skies over Southern California -- and scared some people who apparently thought they were seeing flames from a new set of wildfires. Read more
