Subaru Telescope Uncovers a Misaligned Jet in a Binary Star System A new image of a young (less than a million years old) binary star system called XZ Tauri, taken using the Coronagraphic Imager with Adaptive Optics (CIAO) on the Subaru Telescope, reveals for the first time a jet of material streamin...
Eilen illalla kello 21.39 Suomen yllä nähtiin superbolidi eli yli 100 kertaa täysikuuta kirkkaampi tulipallo. Kyseessä on kirkkain maassamme havaittu tähdenlento yli 30 vuoteen. Ilmiö havaittiin Pohjanmaalla, Lapissa ja Itä-Suomessa.
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Is rock a meteorite or just a hunk of slag? Ray Sigman likes to think the rock he found in his flower bed last year is a meteorite. The rock is a lot heavier than it looks, with a dark-green coating . Read more...
The University of KwaZulu-Natal will be hosting the South African Astronomy Workshop entitled "SALT and the VO" this year in Durban. The two day event, running from the 26th-27th October, will focus on SALT science, SALT proposal submission procedures, SALT data reduction and the VO....
For the second time in seven years the Vatican is hosting a scientific conference for astronomers. More than 200 scientists from 26 countries including the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Japan have gathered in Rome for a five-day meeting on disc galaxies. At the Papal Univers...
Cave extremeophiles (microbes that live in very difficult environments) have been the object of Hazel Bartons research for a long time. Barton, a professor of microbiology at Northern Kentucky University has visited more than 1000 caves in the United States, Britain, Greenland, Mexico, Belize...
A warming climate has heated much of Alaska's permafrost to temperatures just below freezing and drastic changes are expected in the coming decades as that layer of frozen soil thaws, a prominent scientist said on Wednesday.
Vladimir Romanovsky, an associate professor at the University of Ala...
Yuangwang 5, a 25,000 tons displacement, new-generation tracking ship, was delivered on September 29 to China Satellite Maritime Telemetry and Telecontrol Department by the Jiangnan Shipyard. The ship is equipped to provide information for shipping, tracking and control, communicati...
I see the light, millions of people across North Texas said Sept. 9, 1961. They all saw it and had opinions about it, lots of opinions. By the next day, the consensus was that a meteor had streamed across the sky and disintegrated over Grayson County, precisely over Perrin Air Force Base. [url=http://...
V 4641 is a visible star that is associated with a black hole. For a few days in September, 1999 the blackhole became a microquasar, sending out tremendous bursts of X-ray radiation and jets of plasma at speeds of 90 percent the speed of light. V 4641 lies just 1,600 light-years from Earth towards the ce...
September evenings provide our best views of the Milky Way as it flows overhead from the south-west to the north-east. Of course, its faint ribbon of light is swamped by moonlight and the blight of light pollution from street-lighting and the like, so a timely escape to darker skies is recommended. I...
Satellite Images Corroborate Eyewitness Accounts of Human Rights Abuses in Burma, AAAS Reports A new analysis of high-resolution satellite images completed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) pinpoints evidence consistent with village destruction, forced rel...
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