The Kosmos-2427 (Tselina-2 N23?) military optical reconnaissance (Kobalt-M type) satellite was successfully launched atop a Soyuz-U launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 22:00 Moscow time, 7th June 2007. Cosmos-2420 was successfully deployed into an orbit with inclination of 67.15 d...
Title: The ultra-compact binary candidate KUV 23182+1007 is a bright quasar Authors: John Southworth (1), A. Schwope (2), B. T. Gaensicke (1), M Schreiber (3) ((1) University of Warwick, UK, (2) Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany, (3) Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile) KUV 23182+1...
NASA sought today to deflect criticism its chief received following skeptical comments he made on the topic of the agency's role in global warming research. During an interview Wednesday with NPR, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin expressed doubts that global warming was an issue that humans c...
A mini-meteorite has left a bullet-sized hole in a module of the International Space Station (ISS), but the three-person US-Russian team of astronauts inside are no...
Title: The First Stellar Cluster Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C. O. Glover, Ralf S. Klessen We report results from numerical simulations of star formation in the early universe that focus on gas at very high densities and very low metallicities. We argue that the gas in the central regions of protog...
Two non-magnetic materials showing magnetism on their interface: scientists of the University of Twente and Radboud University of Nijmegen show that it is possible, in the coming issue of Nature Materials already online. Publication of this remarkable effect shortly follows previous results...
Large populations of frogs in Central America and the Caribbean "rafted" over the ocean from South America more than 29 million years ago, reports a new study published in the June 4 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Genetic analysis of eleuthe...
A mysterious circular pattern on moss-covered logs has scientists scratching their heads. Last winter, researchers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park discovered the symmetrical bull's-eye pattern on patches of liverwort (a close relative of moss) growing on pine trees that had died an...
My youngest daughter found a meteor. Actually, she found a rock, but she is under the impression that every rock she finds is a meteor. Im not sure where the meteor idea came from; its not like shes been watching Deep Impact, Armageddon or the Transformers trailer (which by the way, is still awesome aft...
The NCU (National Central University) Lu-Lin Observatory is located at Mt. Front Lu-Lin, 120o 52' 25" E and 23o 28' 07" N, a 2862-m peak in the Yu-Shan National Park. The construction of Lu-Lin Observatory was finished on January 14, 1999. The initial study of Lu-Lin site was started sinc...
Scotland's newest museum has been opened to the public. The £11.6m Shetland Museum and Archive, which has taken 10 years to develop, was formally opened by Prince Charles and Queen Sonja of Norway on Thursday. Local people have been consulted throughout the museum's development and many have seen...
The Kara-Kul impact crater is partly filled by the 25-km diameter Kara-Kul Lake. It is almost 6000 meters above sea-level in the Pamir Mountain Range in Tajikstan, near the Afghan border .
Shock features have been found in surface rocks, verifying an impact identity.
The crater is 52 km in dia...
View in high resolution - (842kb, 1440 x 1080)Credit USGS Shoemaker (formerly known as Teague Ring) is an impact structure (or astrobleme), the deeply eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in arid central Western Australia, about 100 km north-northeast of Wiluna. It is named in honou...
The Australian Defence Department says it will negotiate with the two American rocket design companies about plans to launch rockets from Woomera in South Australia.
NASA has selected Rocketplane Kistler and SpaceX to develop the commercial capability to carry cargo to the International S...
