A British intelligence agency is seeking spies in cyberspace. GCHQ, the surveillance arm of British intelligence, said on Thursday it hopes to attract computer-savvy young recruits by embedding job ads within video games. Read more
Tropical Storm Kiko is forecast to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 45 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 21 hours
Astronomers in Taiwan have named a small astral body they discovered between Mars and Jupiter Chiayi after the county where their observatory is located. The International Committee on Small Body Nomenclature approved Lulin Observatory's application to give the 1.5-mile diameter chunk of roc...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope quashed the possibility that what was previously believed to be a toddler galaxy in the nearby universe may actually be considered an adult. Called I Zwicky 18, this galaxy has a youthful appearance that resembles galaxies typically found only in the early universe....
The world's tiniest radio is a step closer to reality. US scientists have unveiled a detector thousands of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair that can translate radio waves into sound. According to a University of California team, the study marks the first time that a nano-sized detecto...
(16.10.07) Tension gripped Western Victoria residents after witnessing bright light in heavens for two straight nights believed to be a meteor form outer space. ABC News reported that residents of Ballarat, west of Melbourne, said that they saw a bright orange-coloured light in the sky about 10 p...
James Kriegh, a driving force behind the creation of the Town of Oro Valley, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2007. He was 78 years old. His latter years were spent archiving stories of Oro Valleys past as the towns historian, but throughout his life Kriegh wore many hats and pursued several interests...
Title: An X-ray emitting black hole in a globular cluster Authors: Thomas J. Maccarone (Southampton), Gilles Bergond (IAA/CAHA), Arunav Kundu (Michigan State), Katherine L. Rhode, John J. Salzer (Indiana), I Chun Shih, Stephen E. Zepf (Michigan State) We present optical and X-ray data for the f...
Title: Binary Stars and Globular Cluster Dynamics Authors: John M. Fregeau In this brief proceedings article I summarise the review talk I gave at the IAU 246 meeting in Capri, Italy, glossing over the well-known results from the literature, but paying particular attention to new, previously unp...
NASA has postponed a teleconference about a world communications event. The media teleconference was planned for Thursday, October 18th, in advance of the World Radiocommunication Conference 2007 has been postponed because of a schedule conflict.
ESA's Hipparcos mission provided astrometric data on thousands of stars. Thanks to advances in computational processing power it has been possible to revisit the original data and improve the accuracy of the derived catalogue. The accuracy of a data set, such as the Hipparcos astrometric data, i...
Title: The Baikal Neutrino Telescope: Selected Physics Results Authors: R. Wischnewski, for the BAIKAL Collaboration We present results on searches for exotic particles (relativistic magnetic monopoles and WIMPs) and for UHE neutrinos, obtained with the Baikal neutrino telescope NT200. [u...
Title: The orbits of the quadruple star system 88 Tau A from PHASES differential astrometry and radial velocity Authors: Benjamin F. Lane (Draper), Matthew W. Muterspaugh (Berkeley), Francis C. Fekel (Tennessee State), Michael Williamson (Tennessee State), Stanley Browne (Berkeley), Macie...
Indonesia late Tuesday raised the status of a volcano on Java island to the highest alert level and recommended people evacuate the area immediately. Officials have advised residents living within a 10-kilometre (6.2-mile) radius of Mount Kelut to leave, with the Indonesian volcanology and geo...
