Five years in orbit for first DMC satellite AlSAT-1 This week, Algeria celebrates the 5th anniversary of its first satellite, AlSAT-1 which marked the beginning of the countrys national space programme. Five years on, the African nation not only benefits from improved cartography, pollution mo...
Title: SkyMouse: A smart interface for astronomical on-line resources and services Authors: Chen-Zhou CUI (1), Hua-Ping SUN (1), Yong-Heng ZHAO (1), Yu LUO (1), Da-Zhi QI (2) ((1) National Astronomical Observatories, CAS; (2) Tianjin University) With the development of network and the World W...
Title: The underluminous Type Ia Supernova 2005bl and the class of objects similar to SN 1991bg Authors: S. Taubenberger, S. Hachinger, G. Pignata, P. A. Mazzali, C. Contreras, S. Valenti, A. Pastorello, N. Elias-Rosa, O. Bärnbantner, H. Barwig, S. Benetti, M. Dolci, J. Fliri, G. Folatelli, W. L....
The small asteroid 2007 VE191 was discovered USNO Flagstaff on the 19th November has made a close flyby of Earth. The asteroid is now departing the Earth moon system after coming about 5 lunar distances at 04:03 UT 28th November, 2007 Object: 2007VE191 date MJD sigma sigimp dist +/- width...
Cecil Commerce Centre, named after a Navy pilot, may soon become a commercial spaceport where civilians would be sent into space.
The Florida Space Authority, an economic development agency at Cape Canaveral, US, will discuss making the former Navy base a spaceport in a December 7 teleconfer...
Asteroid (?) 2007 UN12 was discovered at 08:56 UT on 21 Oct. by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS). Closest approach was on Oct. 17.64 2007, at a distance of 0.0004658 AU. MPEC 2007-U84 PL Sentry has posted 2007 UN12 as an impact ri...
Canada's government Wednesday set aside 25 million acres of wilderness 11 times the size of Yellowstone National Park for conservation, a move that environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation. The land in Canada's Northwest Territories is in thre...
Title: Discovery of ultra-compact nuclear rings in three spiral galaxies Authors: S. Comerón (1), J. H. Knapen (1), J. E. Beckman (1, 2), I. Shlosman (3) ((1) Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, (2) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, (3) University of Kentucky) Ring-shaped mor...
Ralph Asher Alpher, 86, a physicist whose doctoral dissertation provided a feasible formula for the scientific idea of the big bang but whose work was forgotten until after other scientists won the Nobel Prize for the same idea, died of respiratory failure Aug. 12 at an acute care facility in Austin...
Mission2 flight of STABILO1B vehicle was launched on September 25, 2007 at 08:30 local time from Cape Midia Air Force Launch Site ARCA mission 2 video Click to Play | View Details Read more
An ancient mound-cum-hillock with links to the Mahabharata lore and the Buddhist past of the region lies neglected in East Godavari. With Samalkot Junction as the nearest railhead, the place has great accessibility. Also, it is located close to Peddapuram town on the busy ADB Road that links Kakin...
A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the 23rd Progress cargo delivery ship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on October 23rd.
Title: New Insights Into the Nature of the Eclipsing System V609 Aquilae Authors: David G. Turner, Elena A. Panko, Olga Sergienko, David J. Lane, Daniel J. Majaess A photometric study of the Near Contact Binary (NCB) system V609 Aql reveals it to be the westernmost star of a close double, with bright...
