Schoolchildren, families, and citizen scientists around the world will gaze skyward after dark from October 1 to 15, looking for specific constellations and then sharing their observations through the Internet. The initiative, called the Great World Wide Star Count, will help scientists map l...
Two prominent scientists are set to visit Glasgow next week (20th September 2007) to give an insight into the importance of astronomy in Islam. Dr Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society and Dr Usama Hasan are coming to the city to chart the story of Islamic astronomy in a talk timed to comme...
ReactOS 0.3.3 Released! As we have previously made you aware, we skipped the 0.3.2 release due to massive problems with old incompatible drivers resulting in blocker bugs we couldn't resolve within the scheduled release time. With these issues now resolved, and along with a extensive amount of ad...
Occultation of TYC6212-00414-1 by 550 Senta. This is Station A, prepointed 26 hours previously and left to drift unattended while I observed another chord 9km to the north Senta Occultation Click to Play | View Details
SkyORB is a 3D planetarium, star gazing and ephemeris, based from V3X.net engine. It features a modern 3D interface, search engine, a large catalogue of stars, planets, moons and updateable comets and asteroids database, and let you choose see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any plane...
Asynx Planetarium v2.20 for PC Windows System requirements: - PC with MS-Windows NT,Win2000,XP - CPU 1GHz or better - Minimum requirement is 800x600 pixel screen resolution - 8 MB free harddisk space Read more
StarCalc is the fastest professional astronomy planetarium & star mapping program for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP (StarCalc version for PocketPC computers you can find here). It illustrates star positions of any instance of the day observed from any geographic locations on the Earth. The st...
QNX Publishes Neutrino Source Code and Opens Development Process In a move that revolutionizes software development practices by combining the best of the open source and commercial software domains, QNX Software Systems today announced that it is opening access to the source code of its QNX® Ne...
International conference examines Great War impact on Eastern Europe The social and cultural impact of the First World War across Eastern Europe is explored for the first time this week, at an international conference hosted by the University of Southampton. Sacrifice and Regeneration: The Leg...
The evolutionary route from reptile to mammal is fairly well known. Between the Permian and Triassic periods, mammal-like reptiles evolved from basal forms that were fully reptilian. Through dozens of intermediate steps they evolved into mammals by the Late Triassic, some 225 million years ago...
Temple to Herakles identified Bronze vases, lead and clay objects, weapons, iron tools and figurines are among the harvest of finds from an archaic-era sanctuary on the hill of Spartia, Sesklo, in the prefecture of Magnesia. One outstanding find was a bronze, navel-shaped flask bearing the inscr...
The International Space University, the only learning UK establishment dedicated to space science, is to launch the International Institute of Space Commerce (IISC) in the UK. The new body will be located at the Isle of Man International Business School following a five-year commitment by the Ma...
