Budding astronomers will be in for a treat tonight as Astronomy Ireland is organising one of the countrys largest ever stargazing events in Co Wicklow. Clear skies are expected for the celestial spectacle and those attending are hoping for views of the planets Mars and Jupiter, countless galaxies...
First Solar Dynamic Observatory Instrument Arrives at Goddard The University of Colorado at Boulder delivered the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE), first of three Solar Dynamic Observatory instruments, to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. EVE will measure ho...
Converts astrophysical images into a Sky in Google Earth friendly format . Professional astronomers typically store their imaging data in a binary format called FITS that has internal headers known as a WCS (World Coordinate System) that specify the location of the image on the sky. There is now an...
"We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to prevent the BBC from making its iPlayer on-demand television service available to Windows users only, and instruct the corporation to provide its service for other operating systems also." Details of petition: "The BBC plans...
Title: Spitzer observations of the Orion OB1 association: disk census in the low mass stars Authors: Jesus Hernandez (1,2), Nuria Calvet (1), C. Briceno (2), L. Hartmann (1), A. K. Vivas (2), J. Muzerolle (3), J. Downes (2,4), L. Allen (5), R. Gutermuth (5) ((1) Department of Astronomy, University...
Having successfully launched several indigenous satellites in the past, the Indian Space Research Organisation is now in the process of launching the first of its new genre of micro-satellites weighing less than 100 kg. "Our main aim now is to make the satellite systems as compact as possibl...
A new technique to save aging satellites promises to save millions of dollars by extending the life of communications spacecraft. A process developed by researchers from Purdue University and Lockheed Martin has already saved $60 million for unnamed broadcasters by extending the service life o...
A meteor shower is suspected to be the cause of a spate of emergency calls off the North-East coast tonight. Humber Coastguard received a number of calls at about 8.45pm reporting what appeared to be red flares fired into the sky from the vicinity of Saltscar Buoy, approximately three miles from the s...
VOEventNet data feeds for gamma ray bursts and gravitational microlensing events. Updated every 15 minutes GRB_Feed.kmz Google Sky file -- Edited by Blobrana at 15:00, 2008-01-12
Hurricane Fitow is forecast to make landfall in Japan in about 42 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 75% Shizuoka (35.0 N, 138.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% probability for TS is 75% Tokyo (35.7 N, 139.8 E) probab...
Title: The Black Hole Mass and Extreme Orbital Structure in NGC1399 Authors: Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer, Jason Pinkney, Ralf Bender, Douglas Richstone, Monique Aller, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, Sandra Faber, Alexei Filippenko, Richard Green, Luis Ho, John Kormendy, Christos Siopis, Scott Tr...
A Pegasus Rocket Body that was launched on the 5th march, 1999, from the Vandenberg Air Force Base for the Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) mission, is scheduled to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th September 2007 @ 15:35 GMT ± 16 hours Predicted Decay Location 65.2° N, 158.3° E Incl...
An ARIANE 44LP rocket (debri) that was launched from French Guiana in the 2nd March, 1991, for the METEOSAT 5 /ASTRA 1B mission, is scheduled to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 5th September @ 23:34 GMT ± 8 Hours Predicted Decay Location 6.5° S, 197.4° E Inclination 7.2° Revolution Number 25...
A superbubble in space, caught in the act of forming, can help scientists better understand the life and death of massive stars, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Found within the Small Magellanic Cloud – a galactic neighbour of the Milky Way – the large region of...
