Sonja Rohde refuses to abandon her space-faring plans. Although this summer during tests a massive explosion caused the death of three people Ms. Rohde remains determined to be the first female German tourist to fly into space. "It would be naïve to believe that something like 100% safety exi...
An International Launch Services Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the SIRIUS 4 commercial communications spacecraft for operator SES SIRIUS of Sweden, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on November 17th, 2007, 22:40 GMT (5:40 p.m. EST) The SIRIUS 4 satellite arrive...
A pair of galaxies, known collectively as Arp 87, is one of hundreds of interacting and merging galaxies known in our nearby Universe. Arp 87 was originally discovered and catalogued by astronomer Halton Arp in the 1970s. Arps Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a compilation of astronomical photograph...
German astronomers using a set of super computers have solved one of the oldest astronomical puzzles: how star clusters' internal structures differ. All stars are formed within star clusters ranging in size from several hundred to 10 million stars. The researchers sought to discover what the ini...
Title: Chandra X-ray Observations of the 0.6 < z < 1.1 Red-Sequence Cluster Survey Sample Authors: Amalia K. Hicks, Erica Ellingson, Mark Bautz, Benjamin Cain, David Gilbank, M. D. Gladders, Henk Hoekstra, Howard Yee, Gordon Garmire We present the results of Chandra observations of 13 opt...
Circular polarimetry reveals helical magnetic fields in the young stellar object HH 135-136 Astronomers from the Centre for Astrophysics Research at the University of Hertfordshire have provided the first evidence as to why stars are able to continue to accrete matter and grow, and how quasars c...
An asteroid has been named after late Chinese geo-scientist Zhao Jiuzhang with the approval of the International Minor Planet Center (IMPC) and the International Minor Planet Nomenclature Committee (IMPNC). Asteroid No. 7811 was discovered on Feb. 23, 1982, by astronomers at the Purple Mounta...
Near Amarynthos (Euboea, Greece), a joint excavation by the Swiss School and the 11th Greek Ephorate brought to light the foundations of a large building, possibly belonging to the renowned sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia. In September, a team of Swiss and Greek archaeologists led by Denis Knoepfl...
Agricultural expansion rather than shrimp farming is the major factor responsible for the destruction of tropical mangrove forests in the tsunami-impacted regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka, according to a new study published in the Journal o...
A small tornado hit Kensal Rise, a residential area in northwest London, shortly after 11:00 GMT, injuring six people and damaging homes and vehicles.
The tornado tore roofs off several houses and demolished sections of walls to send tiles, bricks and furniture flying through the streets.
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Exactly 25 years ago, on September 23, 1982, at about 11 oclock at night, an accident occurred in a dark street in Moscow. A woman walked along the sidewalk. She had just visited her mother and was on her way home. It was a quiet street, hardly a vehicle passed by at this hour. Suddenly a truck appeared at h...
A clam dredged from Icelandic waters had lived for 400 years - is this the longest-lived animal known to science? Can you imagine living for four centuries? A team of scientists from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences believe they have found an animal which did just that, a quahog clam, Arc...
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