The Chico volcano on Isabela island, in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, erupted late Saturday with a powerful explosion that spewed rivers of lava and a column of steam 20km high.
The nearby main town, Puerto Villamil, 25km away, was left unscathed by lava flows
Residents of the island's main tow...
Title: B2 1144+35B, a giant low power radio galaxy with superluminal motion. Orientation and evidence for recurrent activity Authors: G. Giovannini, M. Giroletti, G.B. Taylor The goal of this work is a detailed study of the nearby, low power radio galaxy B2 1144+35B. For this purpose, we performe...
A new calculation shows that x rays, produced at machines planned or under construction, might be convertible into gamma rays or other particles using a process that is analogous to what happens when radio waves strike an antenna. In a conventional antenna, radio waves excite the motion of electro...
AutoPatcher XP June 2005 has been released!
AutoPatcher XP is an installation package designed to get your Windows system up to date quick and easily for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003.
Note: With this release, the AutoPatcher installer will automatically clean...
In Altaisky Krai scientists are searching for meteorite, which fell from the sky not long ago. Barnaul planetarium is receiving a great number of telephone calls from people, who have seen the fireball falling. Natalia Pavlova, research fellow of Barnaul planetarium, said that on 10 January many...
TT Canum Venaticorum is an extremely metal-poor carbon star. Mag. max : 10.4 Mag. min : 11.11 Period (day) : 105 RA (2000.0): 125922.6 Dec. (2000.0): +374904 TT Canum Venaticorum.kmz Google Sky File -- Edited by Blobrana at 16:49, 2008-01-12...
After the deadly abuse of a soldier at the Russian Plessezk space base, Defence Minister Anatoli Serdyukov has dismissed its commander. Deputy chief of the Plesetsk cosmodrome Maj-Gen Konstantin Chmarov was sacked for negligent performance of his duties, which recently led to the death of Priva...
The dark nebula , called a Bok globule, is a large condensation of cold molecular gas and dust that is blocking light from the NGC 1999 reflection nebula. NGC 1999 Bok Globule.kmzGoogle Sky File -- Edited by Blobrana at 15:55, 2008-01-12
LBV 1806-20 is a hypergiant or possible binary star located 30,00049,000 light-years from the Sun, towards the center of the galaxy. It has a total system mass of 130150 Solar masses and an estimated variable luminosity of up to 38 million times that of the Sun. LBV 1806-20.kmz [url=http://www.box...
A mysterious object seen in skies over the Tasman Sea near Kaitaia is baffling UFO experts. Last month, The Northern News reported that UFO Focus New Zealand (UFOCUS NZ) and world UFO expert Dr Bruce Maccabee were studying a series of unusual photographs taken at Ahipara on April 28. The digital pho...
The August 28th 2007 Total Lunar Eclipse will be visible from Eastern Australia and New Zealand. The eclipses mid-totality (10:37 UT) will be observable from French Polynesia. At that time, the umbral eclipse magnitude will be 1.4760 An eclipsed Moonrise will be visible from western Australia...
The mystery of what caused a sonic boom-like noise over Co Down has deepened after the RAF denied reports a supersonic fighter jet was in Ulster skies at the time. Residents in north Down were alarmed when they heard what they thought was an earthquake on Tuesday afternoon. [url=http://www.newslet...
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