A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of Orion, the famous hunter constellation visible from northern hemispheres during winter nights. Astronomers suspect that shockwaves from a 3-million-year-old explosion of a massive star ma...
Isandlwana Lodge, located in the KwaZulu-Natal Battlefields in South Africa is offering a 'Guns and Galaxies' weekend in August 2007, combining the talents of Astronomer Terry Leaver and Battlefields guide Rob Gerrard. The weekend of 17th 19th August 2007 will see astronomer Terry Leaver takin...
Piyush Khengar, lecturer at Kings College, is now aiming his undergraduate CS students at AROS.
AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) is an initiative since 1997 to reverse engineer AmigaOS 3.1 and 'recreate' it on x86 based hardware platforms. AROS is free and open source, and is aimed at be...
Construction of China's largest general optics tracking telescope was completed on May 12 and it is now ready for use at the Chinese Academy of Science Yunnan Province Lijiang astronomic observatory. The telescope, 2.4 meters in diameter, 8 meters tall and weighing 40 tons, is the largest of its ki...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 08:56:18 (UTC) on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, in the Laos Region, 110 km NE of Chiang Rai, Thailand, at a depth of 38.1 km. Location 20.473°N, 100.701°E A 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern Laos on Wednesday, shaking buildings as far away as Bang...
A giant oyster shell thought to be more than 5 000 years old has been found in a Bangkok suburb, a geologist said on Tuesday, supporting the theory that the Thai capital was once under the sea. About 100 pieces of 30 different types of shell were found at a building site at the Mahamakut Buddhist Universi...
Mobile Satellite Ventures LP and joint venture partner Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) announced today that MSV has contracted with Sea Launch Company, LLC, for the launch in 2010 of one of two high-powered, next-generation satellites, designed to provide seamless, transparent and ubiqui...
Two objects discovered in Capricornus during the 1800s are a pair of colliding galaxies, say astronomers in California and Spain. Furthermore, the collision probably spawned much of the larger galaxy's splendour. NGC 6907 is a beau...
Terry Lovejoy of Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, has discovered a 9th-magnitude comet in the southern constellation Indus. In reporting the find to the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT), Lovejoy described the comet as having a green, 4' coma with a slight extension to th...
A Soyuz-U Rocket Body that was launched on 11th May 2007 from the Baikonour Cosmodrome on the Progress 25P mission to resupply the ISS is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 1...
Boso is a place that students can buy or sell stuff online. Simple as that really. Oxford University undergraduates have set up the first online market just for students. BOSO (Buy Or Sell Online), www.boso.com, is an eBay-style website for Oxford students to t...
Astronomer Lisa Kewley laid the foundations of her galactic inquiry during PhD research at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics on Mt Stromlo. Since then, shes journeyed to the University of Hawaii to use some of the largest telescopes in the world. For her work studying the formation...
Severe Cyclonic Storm Akash is forecast to strike land: Bangladesh probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently Myanmar probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently India probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% currently...
After centuries of studying the stars through telescopes, the arrival of the space age has enabled humanity to take a closer look at what we see, and don't see, in the night sky. Among the most powerful tools that space scientists have come to rely upon in studying other planets is remote sensing. With...
Startled stargazers were treated to a rare and beautiful sight this week when a brilliant meteor streaked through Okanagan skies. "It was an amazing, vibrant sight, a fireball with a white centre, blue halo and a long pink tail" - Connie Denesiuk, who, with her husband, Bob, happened to s...
