An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket (Flight 179) with an ECA cryogenic upper stage is to to launch the British Skynet 5B military communications satellite and the Brazilian STAR ONE C1 telecommunications spacecraft, from launchpad ELA-3, in Kourou, French Guiana on November 9th, 2007. The Brazilia...
Something strange is happening in the atmosphere above Africa and researchers have converged on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to discuss the phenomenon. The Africa Space Weather Workshop kicked off Nov. 12th with nearly 100 scientists and students in attendance. The strange phenomenon that brings al...
Title: Transient Mass-Loss Events in the PG 1159 Central Star of Longmore 4 Authors: Howard E. Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute) A spectacular, transient mass-loss event in the hydrogen-deficient central star of the planetary nebula Longmore 4 was discovered in 1992 by Werner et al. Duri...
Researchers from Ankaras Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) have used local resources in the development of new radar absorbent coverings to be used in technology geared toward radar invisibility. The new materials developed by ODTÜ researchers significantly reduce radar visibility fo...
Chinese archaeologists said they have found fossilised remains of a primitive human species that lived about 2.04 million years ago in the Three Gorges Area in southwest China, the earliest ever found in the country. The findings, including a lower jawbone fragment, an incisor and more than 230 pi...
Published the week of Nov. 12 in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study documents the use of digging tools among chimpanzees inhabiting the Ugalla region of western Tanzania. An arid woodland savannah, Ugalla is thought to be an environment simi...
Title: FIGGS: Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey Authors: Ayesha Begum, Jayaram N. Chengalur, I. D. Karachentsev, Margarita Sharina, S. S. Kaisin The Faint Irregular Galaxies GMRT Survey (FIGGS) is a large program aimed at providing a comprehensive and statistically robust characterisati...
Fossil hunters exploring the eastern edge of the Rift Valley of Kenya have found the jawbone of a 10-million-year-old ape that appears to be a close relative of the last ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas. The discovery of this ancient ape strikes a new blow against a theory that apes in Af...
A new antenna made of plasma (a gas heated to the point that the electrons are ripped free of atoms and molecules) works just like conventional metal antennas, except that it vanishes when you turn it off. That's important on the battlefield and in other applications where antennas need to be kept out...
A high-tech refrigeration system could keep a rover functioning for weeks on the searingly hot surface of Venus, say NASA researchers. A long-lived Venus rover could help scientists understand why Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect, has become so different from Earth. The surface of Venu...
Galactic-cluster X-rays may not come from hot gases Universe could have a fifth less mass than current estimates. If you have ever felt belittled by the amount of stuff in the universe, you might be relieved to find out that it could have 20% less mass than scientists previously thought. According to...
Three academics from the Universities of Leipzig and Hamburg have written a five-volume study that casts doubt on the works held in Britain, which are among up to 40 per cent of the worlds Michelangelos that they believe should be dismissed as copies. The three academics argue that hundreds of drawi...
A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday. The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scie...
A 20 meter sized asteroid, 2007 VN84, discovered by Richard Kowalski and the Catalina Sky Survey is predicted to make a extremely close flyby of the earth on Nov 13.844 UT The object may reach around magnitude 9.7 and be favourably positioned. The minimum distance from the geocenter will only be 0...
ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere.
Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Centre to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar sy...
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