Rainbow-coloured jets in the cosmic cloud BHR 71 point to a celestial smash occurring 600 light-years away from Earth -- and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides an exclusive peek at the "jet-setting" stars inside. The hot, young-stars can be seen in the Spitzer image (middle panel...
The European Space Agency is providing a new Internet tracking site, allowing people to graphically view the location of various spacecraft. The "Track ESA Spacecraft" webpage shows the ground tracks for the International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope and various ESA satel...
More than 30 years ago, eruptions of steam and ash from Mount Baker prompted the evacuation of the Baker Lake area and sent jitters through Whatcom County. Before scientists could understand what was going on inside Baker, its sister to the south Mount St. Helens roared to life, stealing the show and...
A magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2007cc, was discovered on the 27th April, 2007, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the galaxy ESO 578-G26 in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy is located 1".2 east and 2".7 north of the centre of the galaxy. Position(2000): R.A. = 14h08m41s...
Penn Physicists Develop Force Law for Granular Impacts: Sand, Other Granular Matter's Behaviour Is Better Defined Sand. A single grain is tiny, but solid, and shares the physical properties of other solid matter. But pack or transport millions of grains together - as modern society does with co...
It was the perfect Eagle Scout project, something befitting that name, a task that soared into the sky and beyond into space. The astronomy dome at Monrovia High School, opened in 1983, had gradually fallen prey to neglect and changing curriculums until, finally, it wasn't used at all. Thursday, be...
A University of Washington engineer said a mystery rock -- said to be from an unidentified flying object -- is probably a meteorite fragment. Bill Beaty, a researcher in the chemistry department, said the fragment could also have a terrestrial origin -- old lava. "I'm not a geologist, but this...
As the sky darkens in early evening during April, the first thing to catch your eye will be bright Venus, gleaming large and white in the west about a third of the way from the horizon to straight overhead. Venus at dusk is one of the sky's prettiest sights. The brilliant planet will be visible even befor...
Title: Ages for illustrative field stars using gyrochronology: viability, limitations and errors Authors: Sydney A. Barnes We here develop an improved way of using a rotating star as a clock, set it using the Sun, and demonstrate that it keeps time well. This technique, called gyrochronology, pe...
A bright magnitude 15.6 Type IIn supernova, 2007bt, was discovered on the 17th April, 2007, by the Nearby Supernova Factory in an anonymous galaxy in the constellation Bootes. The supernova is located near the centre of the host galaxy. Position (2000): R.A. = 14h27m47s.73, Dec. = +12°48'47&...
A bright magnitude 15.6 Type II supernova, 2007bp, was discovered on the 26th March, 2007, by the Nearby Supernova Factory in the galaxy MCG +01-24-19 in the constellation Hydra. The supernova is located near the centre of the host galaxy. Position (2000): R.A. = 09h24m00s.55, Dec. = +05°12...
Giant prehistoric flying reptiles from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom attracted crowds of thousands in Mumbai, India, today where they are on display at Techfest 2007 - Asia's largest science and technology festival. The full-scale pterosaurs models - giant flying levi...
A fireball that streaked across the Denver sky at 11 p.m. Friday prompted dozens of people to call the Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey to report the bright meteor. "It was not uncommon and moved fairly slow" - Chris Peterson, a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science...
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