2MASS J012655.49-502238.8 and 2MASS J012702.83-502321.1 Astronomers have serendipitously discovered a record-breaking pair of low-mass objects with an extreme orbital separation. The petite objects, each of which has a mass less than 100 times that of Jupiter and could be either stars or bro...
Mauritania's second city, Nouadhibou, is a strange frontier town that feels like the end of the world. In the market you can buy anything from chickens and goats to traditional herbal remedies and magic potions. But perhaps the weirdest objects of all on sale are meteorites, some of the rarest rocks...
The 50 meter-wide asteroid 2007 GU1 is to flyby the Earth on April 16th. At closest approach the space rock will be 500,000 miles away, about 2.1 lunar distances. ate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2007 04 10 13 35.87 +10 06.1 0.0601 1.059 161.3 17.7 19.6 2007 04 11 13 39.82 +09 46.7 0.04...
A brightly glowing object that streaked across the sky above Maui was reported by a few people up early enough Wednesday morning to witness the phenomenon. The Maui News received several phone calls from people who said they saw what probably was a large meteor that moved from northwest to southeast...
Who would have thought a ball of dust and gas could be so beautiful? The just-discovered nebula, dubbed "The Red Square", has amazed astronomers with its rare symmetrical appearance. They are excited by the possibility of a supernova. The University of Sydney team, led by Dr Peter Tuthi...
Lava Lamp-Like Process Caused World's Largest Zinc Deposit:
For more than two decades, geologists have scoured the ores and rocks surrounding the world's largest zinc deposit at Red Dog, Alaska, for clues as to how this giant ore body formed. In some zinc deposits elsewhere, vol...
The explosion was heard miles away. At Pineda Crossing, near the Suntree subdivision, John Panik said he was having trouble sleeping, got out of bed and turned on the television just before 3 a.m. "I was sitting there and suddenly there was a loud boom. It shook the windows not like a big rattle, b...
Tyler Junior College's Hudnall Planetarium will present "Hubble: Images of the Infinite" at 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday recapping discoveries made by the Hubble space telescope, including historical highlights and scientific findings. The show will feature a tour of the solar system,...
Visitors to Christie's International's Paris auction hall are being greeted by the upright skeleton of a 2.3 meter prehistoric cave bear, poised to strike with his four fangs and full set of eight molars. The bones of the creature, which lived in what's now Siberia before the last ice age ended about...
Title: Possible origin of Larson's lows Authors: A.W. Zaharow It was found that approximately constant column densities of giant molecular clouds (Larson's low) can be explained as cloud existence condition in external (galactic) gravitational field. This condition can be also applied to obj...
Chinese scientists plan to put into orbit the Haiyang 1-B (Ocean 1-B) on a Long March 2 carrier by the end of this year to monitor marine environment and disasters.
The oceanic satellite Haiyang 1-B will be a more advanced version of Haiyang 1-A, with improved technology including greater memor...
Creeping desertification around the world affects more than 250 million people. A newly launched research project is working to fight the phenomenon with new conservation strategies. Funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), the DESIRE project is international, bringing togeth...
Newton's second law of motion, that pillar of classical physics, the formula that says the force on an object is proportional to acceleration, has now been tested, and found to be valid, at the level of 5 x 10^-14 m/s^2. This is a thousandfold improvement in precision over the best previous test, one c...
A proposed space mission could find hundreds of free-floating, Earth-size planets that were ejected from their solar systems in primordial tussles with their siblings. Based on a technique called microlensing, the mission could also find many planets orbiting their parent stars at the right di...
Physics professor's stellar writing calibrates starsWork referenced by astronomers around globe Any scholar researching the history of physics and astronomy might consider reading a paper authored by a faculty member at Austin Peay State University, whose work is climbing the list of most ref...
