The Sacramento region does not need to look too far to find future astronomers.CordovaHigh School’s astronomy class, taught by physical science teacher Glenn Reagan, is has already discovered three new asteroids through the International Asteroid Search Campaign (IASC). When their finding...
Authorities warned thousands of people on Lembata Island, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) to prepare to evacuate after a volcano started spewing rocks and lava. The 748-metre Batutara volcano , which began rumbling last week, released hot lava and rocks over the last two days and shot clouds of hot air as...
A new magnitude 10 nova, V2615 Oph , was discovered by Hideo Nishimura (Miyawaki, Kakegawa, Shizuoka-ken) and Yuji Nakamura (Kameyama, Mie, Japan) on March 21st, 2007. Position(2000): RA: 17:42:44.00 Dec: -23:40:35.1 [url=http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/08800/08824.html]IAUC
New excavations in western Iran have led to the discovery of an ancient stone structure that dates back to the Sassanid era (226 BC - 651 AD). The structure was discovered in an archeologically-rich area of Iran's Kermanshah Province called Sarab Tappeh, located in the city of Gilan-e-Gharb. I...
As they relax in the modest living room of their home near downtown Noblesville, Jan and Lois Melvin said they have not felt the same for about a week. Something is missing. A large historic rock, which had rested comfortably near the corner of 10th and Division streets near Seminary Park for more than...
Although Muslims are all the buzz when it comes to talking about politics, there is little mention of them when we hear about space sciences or space exploration. Muslims have always been interested in studying the skies, and great advances were made in the field of astronomy during the heydays of Mu...
Scientists have created the tiniest-ever alphabet soup by designing and producing billions of microscale fluorescent particles in the shapes of the 26 letters, all in one font and suspended in a liquid.
The UCLA researchers said they can pick up the letters with lasers and reposition and reorie...
A University of Alberta palaeontologist has helped discover the existence of a 95 million-year-old snakelike marine animal, a finding that provides not only the earliest example of limbloss in lizards but the first example of limbloss in an aquatic lizard. "This was unsuspected. It adds to...
Title: A new detached K7 dwarf eclipsing binary system Authors: T.B. Young, M.G. Hidas, J.K. Webb, M.C.B. Ashley, J.L. Christiansen, A. Derekas, C. Nutto We present an analysis of a new, detached, double-lined eclipsing binary system with K7 Ve components, discovered as part of the University of...
How Ice Melts:
A breakthrough new study, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack.
Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical worl...
A magnitude 15.5 supernova, 2007av, was discovered on the 20th March 2007, by Ron Arbour in the galaxy NGC 3279, in the constellation Leo. The supernova is located 6".0 east and 15".0 south of the centre of the galaxy. Position(2...
Mount Ebeko, a volcano on the island of Paramushir, which belongs to the Northern Kuril chain in Russia's Far East, has started emitting vapour and gas for the first time since spring.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry's Sakhalin department said vapour and gas emissions had b...
Star gazers and science enthusiasts can now smile with the realisation that their efforts of trying to fund the Observatory Park project are in fact paying off. Work on Observatory Park at Turner Farm in Great Falls has begun — starting first with the recent restoration of the roll-top observatory...
Tropical Cyclone Indlala is forecast to strike land in Madagascar probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 30 hours Antalaha (14.9 S, 50.2 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 45% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 30 hours Maroantseta (15....
A type 1a, magnitude15.8 supernova, 2007as, was discovered on the 13th March 2007, by Luckas, Trondal, Schwartz from the Tenagra Observatory in the galaxy ESO 18-G18, in the constellation Chamaeleon. The supernova is located 12".1 w...
