Tropical Storm Pabuk is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan in about 36 hours. probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% probability for TS is 70% Taipei (25.0 N, 121.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 48 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 36 hours T...
Meteor pao pokraj Samobora? Prema rijeima oevidaca izgledalo je kao da neto gori na nebu. Zatim snana eksplozija, te podrhtavanje tla. Sve je trajalo nekih desetak sekundi. Read more Credit Arhivs...
Megavideo, is a video sharing website based in Hong Kong, similar to YouTube. However, they claim that they are better than YouTube for ten reasons: 1. Video publishers can earn money through a rewards program 2. Publishers can also ea...
A 1,300-year-old skeleton buried with a cache of gold artefacts has been found in a Bolivian pyramid, archaeologists say. The remains are believed to belong to an elite member of the ancient Tiwanaku culture, which thrived on the shores of Lake Titicaca from about A.D. 400 to 1200. [url=http://new...
A Russian marine biologist was drowned, and an Italian badly hurt, when the research vessel on which they were working was rammed by a cargo ship and sank off the coast of Sicily on 3 August. The ship, Thetis, was measuring marine biomass around seven kilometres off the island's coast when it was struc...
Deepskylive (Version 1.3.1) is a browser/internet based astronomy program You need to have the Sun Java Runtime Environment installed. Weblink Personally i don't use the program, but it may be handy to someone.
Title: The Spitzer 24-micron Photometric Light Curve of the Eclipsing M-dwarf Binary GU Bootis Authors: Kaspar von Braun (1), Gerard T. van Belle (1), David Ciardi (1), Mercedes Lopez-Morales (2), D. W. Hoard (3), Stefanie Wachter (3) ((1) Michelson Science Center, Caltech (2) Department of Ter...
Asia's largest optical telescope will be set up at Devasthal near Nainital and will be a multinational effort with participation from Belgium, Russia and several Indian institutes. The 3.6 metre optical telescope will cost Rs 120 crore and will be a state-of-the-art system with capability of fa...
A video by ESA regarding a giant black hole observed at the centre of galaxy RXJ 12 42-11 (650 million light-year's from earth) tearing apart a neighbouring star.
Haikou City will no longer use the number four in auto plates because in Chinese it is pronounced like death, police announced today. Police in the Hainan provincial capital said people regard the number as a bad omen, so existing plates containing "4" will be scrapped and new plates won'...
Today, villagers have discovered what they claim to be a meteorite found in a field in Hotitur village in Sangrur district of Punjab . The meteorite , or encrusted rock , measures ~ 8cm by 5 cm and weighs ~ 100 grams. The local police quickly took charge of the rock, and it is now in the possession of...
Public Lectures* at the Space Telescope Science Institute Speaker: Zolt Levay, Space Telescope Science Institute Title: Art and the Universe Date: August 7, 2007 Time: 8 PM Place: Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) Auditorium Price: Free admission and free parking [url=http://h...
Title: Diffuse Ionised Gas in the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy DDO 53 Authors: A.M. Hidalgo-Gamez (ESFM-Ipn) The spectral characteristics throughout the dwarf irregular galaxy DDO 53 are studied. The results are very similar to those for other irregular galaxies: high excitation and low values of th...
Sky watchers in the Northern Hemisphere can easily pick out the distinctive shape of the Big Dipper. Hidden within this constellation is a galaxy that can't be seen with the naked eye. This video shows the Big Dipper, and then zooms into Galaxy M108. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXB...
On his way back west from India, Alexander the Greats Admiral Nearchos reached the island of Failaka, about 20 kilometres from what is now Kuwait City, and founded a town there called Icaros. Twenty-five centuries later, that Hellenistic city is slowly coming to light again on the 24-square-kilom...
