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Title: The Blazhko behaviour of RV UMa Authors: Zs. Hurta RV UMa is one of the most extensively studied RR Lyrae stars showing Blazhko modulation. Its photometric observations cover more than 90 years. The published photoelectric observations of RV UMa obtained at the Konkoly Observatory (Kanyo...

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One stargazer in this family is enough Astronomy class seemed like an easy way to pick up some hours during my senior year of college. The class itself turned out to be rather difficult, but I should have expected it when the professor mentioned that he had wanted to be an astronomer when he was five. We a...

The 10th Asteroids, Comets, Meteors meeting will be held 14-18 July 2008 (with a reception on the 13th) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and will be hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM) meeting is the premier international gathering...

How is matter created? What happens when stars die? Is the universe shrinking, or is it expanding? For decades, scientists have been looking for answers to such "big picture" questions. For the past few months, members of the department of physics at Florida State University have begun...

Chinese archaeologists claim that findings unearthed in the areas along the Qinghai-Tibet railway proved that human beings lived there at least 30,000 years ago. Archaeologists with the Qinghai Provincial Archaeological Institute said they collected large number of chipped stone tools in...

This week, Mercury, Saturn and Venus will be in `conjunction` with the Sun. This image is from the SOHO satellite shows Mercury and Saturn; Venus will appear in the view on August 16th. Expand (119kb, 560 x 560) C...

Tropical Storm Dean formed in the open Atlantic on Tuesday, but remained far from land, forecasters said. At 11 a.m. EDT, the storm was centred about 1,490 miles east of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, about halfway across the ocean from Africa, according to the National Hurricane Centre. It h...

Bahraini astronomers are backing a call for the creation of an Arab space agency to involve the region in the industry and assist Arab scientists to research and promote exploration. The issue will be discussed at an international forum on astronomy to be held in Alexandria, Egypt, in October. [url...

Two hundred years ago, houses shook as a meteorite exploded in the sky over Connecticut. Now, an astronomer says the observations of the event by a man in Rutland may help determine exactly what path the shooting star followed. Monty Robson, director of the John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milfor...

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NASA Announces Next Undersea Exploration Mission NASA will send three astronauts and a Constellation Program aerospace engineer into the ocean depths off the Florida coast from Aug. 6 to 15, where they will test lunar exploration concepts and a suite of medical objectives for long-duration spac...

The Crest of the Pea****: the Non-European Roots of Mathematics A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. Dr George Gheverghese Joseph from The University of Ma...