Title: ESO540-032: a Transition-Type Dwarf in the Sculptor Group Authors: G. S. Da Costa, H. Jerjen, A. Bouchard A colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) based on HST/ACS data is presented for the Sculptor group dwarf galaxy ESO540-032. The CMD is dominated by an old red giant population but there is a sma...
Dozens of newly discovered volcanoes in a stretch of the Pacific Ocean pose a major tsunami risk due to the area's seismic instability, an Australian geologist warned on Thursday. Research teams from the United States, Germany, Australia and New Zealand have discovered 75 previously unknow...
Andy Woerner and his crazy rocketeer friends have built a 21-foot long X-Wing model that can actually fly. Yes, this is a real X-Wing powered by four solid-fuel rocket engines complete with radio-controlled moving wings. It blasts off in California next week, and we talked with Andy about the proje...
Kane'ohe observatory to be dedicated With the completion of the observatory, which was funded primarily by private donors and will be dedicated on Friday in a private ceremony, the college is now looking at establishing an endowment fund to help with maintenance and improvement costs. [url=http...
An Arianespace Ariane 5 GS rocket is to launch the Intelsat 11 and Optus D2 communications satellites, from ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana. Intelsat 11 will provide direct-to-home broadcasting and data networking services to Latin America. The Optus D2 satellite is to provide television and c...
There is a gamma-ray lighthouse shining from the edge of our Universe. Astronomers have discovered it using ESAs orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral. Now, they must work hard to understand it. The object, known only by its catalogue name IGR J22517+2218, was discovered this year, but its n...
Title: A Detailed Study of 2S 0114+650 with the RXTE Authors: S. A. Farrell, R. K. Sood, P. M. O'Neill, S. Dieters We present the results of a detailed study of the high mass X-ray binary 2S 0114+650 made with the pointed instruments onboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The spectral and temporal be...
Cyprus: once home to the dwarf elephants and pygmy hippos An excavation in the Famagusta district has unearthed animal remains including tiny elephants and hippopotamuses dating back some 250,000 years. The recent findings in an area close to Ayia Napa revealed the skeletal remains of dwarf elep...
One hundred years ago tonight, Marylanders - and Baltimoreans in particular - were rattled and amazed by what seemed like a fiery bombardment of a sort not seen since the British attack on Ft. McHenry in 1814. Headlines in The Sun the next morning pulled no punches: "FIERY BALL HITS CITY; Brilli...
The international youth festival in Aberdeen has teamed up with Robert Gordon University to display work by some of the city's most famous former art students from Gray's School of Art, in an exhibition which opened yesterday. The exhibition is organised by the Library's University Collections t...
The so-called Creationists, who maintain that the biblical account is scientific truth, make me very angry. Their total misunderstanding of the real truths at the heart of the Creation stories of Genesis simply bring faith into disrepute and invite scorn, feeding those who dismiss all religion a...
Typhoon Krosa is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 72 hours probability for TS is 85% in about 48 hours Taipei (25.0 N, 121.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 72 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 48 ho...
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