Alan Hale, PhD, achieved worldwide recognition when Comet Hale-Bopp whooshed through the skies in the early months of 1997. But Hales contributions are not limited to the co-discovery of the most widely-viewed comet in history. He has studied extensively the threat posed by near-Earth asteroid...
Astronomical researcher Dr. Wil van Breugel will speak on Our Universe: Watch Out! at the Science on Saturday program April 28 at California State University, Fresno. van Breugel, who has more 25 years of experience in conducting astronomical research using a wide variety of telescopes on earth a...
A Bloomington couple caught a falling star Monday morning not quite in their pockets but in a bedroom of their house. A chunk of metal that crashed through the bedroom window of David and Dee Riddle just after 9:30 a.m. may be a meteorite but it also could be a piece of space junk according to preliminary...
Title: The old open clusters Berkeley 32 and King 11 Authors: Monica Tosi (1), Angela Bragaglia (1), Michele Cignoni (1,2) ((1): INAF-Osserv. Astron. Bologna (2): Astronomy Dept., Bologna Univ.) We have obtained CCD BVI imaging of the old open clusters Berkeley 32 and King 11. Using the synthetic...
Title: Star Formation in the Bok Globule CB54 Authors: David R. Ciardi, Cynthia Gomez Martin We present mid-infrared (10.4 \micron, 11.7 \micron, and 18.3 \micron) imaging intended to locate and characterise the suspected protostellar components within the Bok globule CB54. We detect and conf...
Title: The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: Galaxy Bimodality
Authors: Simon P. Driver (Univ. St Andrews), Jochen Liske (ESO), Alister W. Graham (Swinburne)
Galaxy bimodality is caused by the bulge-disc nature of galaxies as opposed to two distinct galaxy classes. This is e...
Tropical Cyclone Jaya is forecast to strike land in Madagascar. probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 36 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 24 hours
Nearly 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2007 (NAM 2007), this year held in conjunction with the UK Solar Physics (UKSP) and Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial (MIST) meetings. NAM 2007 will be hosted by...
Soon after sunset on Saturday evening, March 3, skywatchers in eastern North America can watch the rising full moon undergoing its first total eclipse in nearly 2-½ years. In Europe and Africa the eclipse takes place late at night high in a dark sky. [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17074307/]...
Richard Dawkins reads excerpts from The God Delusion and answers questions at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia on October 23, 2006. This Q&A features many questions from Jerry Falwell's Liberty "University" students. In Richard's tour journal he says:
"Many of th...
A control post officer assigned to Indonesia's Mount Slamet said Sunday the volcano's activity has increased after the area endured heavy rains. The officer said the increased activity at the volcano in the Central Java province was v...
At least 2,000 Quechuan marchers and dancers filled the streets of Cusco on March 5 to protect the Andean sacred site of Q'oyllur Riti from mining activities.
Dressed in the traditional clothing and masks of the Q'oyllur Riti festival, one of the most important indigenous festivals in Peru, they...
A meteor shower is believed to be responsible for a light show over Auckland's Waitemata Harbour this morning.
A number of callers to police reported seeing colourful or white lights from the North Shore, Kohimarama and as far South as Kawakawa Bay at around five thirty.
Inspector Willie Taylo...
The Hindu system of time reckoning divides a kalpa of 4.32 billion years into 14 manvantaras and hence one manvantara becomes 30,84,48,000 years or 308.448 million years. Hindu tradition also says that we are now passing through the Svetavaraha Kalpa and after the beginning of this Svetavaraha Ka...
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