Officials in South Korea have chosen a 30-year-old engineer to be the country's first citizen in space. Ko San, who works at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, will fly with two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station in 2008. He will spend seven or eight days there, conducting a...
Title: The Spectrum of 1ES0229 + 200 and the Cosmic Infrared Background Authors: F.W. Stecker (NASA/GSFC) and S.T. Scully (James Madison Univ.) (Version v2) We examine the effect of gamma-ray absorption by the extragalactic infrared radiation on intrinsic spectra predicted for 1ES0229+200 an...
Title: The nature of HHL 73 from optical imaging and Integral Field Spectroscopy Authors: R.Lopez, S.F.Sanchez, B.Garcia-Lorenzo, R.Estalella, A.Riera, G.Busquet We present new results on the nature of the Herbig-Haro-like object 73 (HHL73, also known as [G84b] 11) based on narrow-band CCD H...
A magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2007pl, was discovered on the 5th November, 2007, by the Chilean Automatic Supernova Search program, in the spiral galaxy ESO 205-G18, in the Pictor constellation. The supernova is located 0".9 east and 0".1 south of centre of the galaxy. Position(2000):...
Mr. Steve Larson discovered a magnitude 17.5 Comet, P/2007 V1 (Larson), on images taken on November 08, 2007 by the Catalina Sky Survey. The orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on December 08, 2007 at a distance of 2,7 AU from...
According to Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, Russia is to build a new space centre in the Far East, but will continue to use Kazakhstan's Baikonur launch site until at least 2020. "We are currently considering the Amur Region in the Far East as the main location for a new launch site" - A...
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have used a uniquely-constructed perforated diamond cell to investigate oxide glass structures at high pressures in unprecedented detail. Argonne physicist Chris Benmore and postdoctoral appointee Qiang Mei, alon...
Video: What's Up for November This month you'll have great views of a red planet and a red star. Plus, find out when the Mars rovers are facing Earth. What's Up for November Click to Play | View Details Download options Quicktime 27Mb | Screen size: 480x270: + Narrated with caption + Narrated without ca...
Three new antennas at NASA's White Sands ... Engineers from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Md., showcased the new 18-meter Ka Band Antenna Network, the first such system in agency history, during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico on Novembe...
After 5 years of design and development work and preparation of the flight model, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has passed its Final Acceptance Review and been given the green light by ESA for launch in September. Following four and a half months of assembly, integration a...
The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel left the Saint Petersburg port in the small hours of November 6 and is now on its way to the Antarctic. Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition is made up of 102 expedition members and 70 sailors. The ship is to visit the port of Bremerhaven in German...
Builders are now constructing the Dandenong Southern Bypass through an ancient Aboriginal site. The site in Dandenong South (Victoria, Australia) has had sand tested at 35,000 years old with artefacts estimated to be about 17,000 years old.
A spokesman for Thiess John Holland said Dandenong S...
First tests on equipment that will provide key data on the current state of Arctic ice have been successful. In 2008, explorer Pen Hadow will trek 2,000km across the North Pole, dragging a radar that will probe the thickness of the ever-shrinking ice-cap. In advance of the expedition, the team heade...
