Title: The luminous X-ray hotspot in 4C 74.26: synchrotron or inverse-Compton emission? Authors: M.C. Erlund, A.C. Fabian, Katherine M. Blundell, C. Moss, D.R. Ballantyne We report the discovery of an X-ray counterpart to the southern radio hotspot of the largest-known radio quasar 4C 74.26 (w...
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Anthropologist and Archaeoastronomer Timothy King M.A. 04 spoke to a packed audience yesterday evening in Pigott Hall to explain how Maya astronomy reflects the rich culture of its people. King, who also received his Ph.D. from the University last year, presented his latest research findings ab...
This is a prototype desktop called Bump Top that imitates real life document behaviours, but in a 3D space. Eg, stacking documents on top of one another, or throwing them around.
The product home page can be foun...
Taking advantage of southern Utah's clear, dark skies, Bryce Canyon National Park wants to build a $2 million public astronomical observatory. It would be only the second observatory for the National Park Service and a much grander type than the small facility at Chaco Canyon National Historical...
In April and May 2007, after accompanying Mau and Alingano Maisu to Micronesia, the Polynesian Voyaging Society will sail Hokulea from Palau to Japan to honour and perpetuate historic cross-cultural connections and intercultural exchanges between Hawaii and Japan. This voyage is planned with...
If a supreme being were so inclined, it could configure three planets so that they would race around one another in a graceful figure-8 orbit. At least that's what Newton's theory of gravity predicts. Now, a team of physicists has shown that the figure-8 orbit is possible even if they use Einstein's m...
Planet hunter Michael Brown will discuss his discoveries at the outer edge of the solar system in a free public lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, May 24. Brown's talk, "Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Solar System," will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall on...
The second annual 'Megalithomania conference' is taking place at the Assembly Rooms, Glastonbury (England) on 19th and 20th May. John Michell, is the maim inspiration for Megalithomania - named after his 1982 book - and he is expected to return to the podium in 2007. Speakers include Robert Temple...
Canada Studies Mission to Phobos Optech Incorporated, the global market leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced, laser-based survey systems, announced today that is has been selected by the Canadian Space Agency to lead the study of a Canadian-led mission to [url=http:/...
Physicists describe a new mechanism for metallic magnetism
Predicting the magnetic behaviour of metallic compounds is a surprisingly difficult problem for theoretical physicists. While the properties of a common refrigerator magnet are not a great mystery, certain materials e...
A diamond-shaped, two-pound piece of the only meteorite ever found in York County has returned home for the 100-year anniversary of its discovery. Found in 1907 about 7 miles north of the Shrewsbury borough line, the entire meteorite weighed about 24 pounds, said Bill Kreiger, a professor of Earth...
On 27 April 2007, Pawel Poncyljusz, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Economy, and René Oosterlinck, ESA Director of Legal Affairs and External Relations, signed the European Cooperating State Agreement in Warsaw.
Poland is the fourth European Cooperating State (ECS) following Hungary (...
Lynchburg College students will be seeing stars this fall. A $450,000 observatory, located on the Claytor Nature Preserve, should be ready for use by then. Initial work began last Friday and college officials expect the work to be completed in August. Dr. Neal Sumerlin, who spearheaded the projec...
At a NASA Science Update Monday, May 7, at 2 p.m. EDT, astronomers will announce new findings about a record-breaking stellar event discovered using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The event will be held in the auditorium at NASA Headquarters, 300 E St., S.W., in Washington and will be broadcast...
