Cosmos-2393 satellite, may have competed its mission. The orbit (Apogee 39695, Perigee 614km, Incl. 65.11) of the US-KS early-warning satellite, launched on 24 Dec 2002, was not increased during February 2007. This may be due to low fuel levels. The satellite may still be fully operational. The c...
STARCHARTGL
An OpenGL star chart / planetarium with very realistic graphics.
110,000 stars. Messier objects, the major planets and visible moons;
Animate the passing of night and day or follow a planet, star or messier object's path over a few minutes to a few centuries.
Realisti...
imagine two tennis balls separated by 180 miles--yet still in orbit around each other. That's an accurate scale model for a remarkable pair of red stars which astronomers have discovered in the constellation Phoenix. The double star is the widest very low mass binary ever seen and may shed new l...
Title: Status of the NEMO Project
Authors: Piera Sapienza (for the NEMO collaboration)
The NEMO project aims at the search, development and validation of key technologies for the construction, deployment and maintenance of an underwater Cherenkov km3 neutrino telescop...
Can we detect asteroid impacts with rocky extrasolar planets?
Sixty-five million years ago a chunk of rock and ice perhaps 15 kilometres across collided with the Earth and wiped out many creatures, including the dinosaurs. This impact, known as the Chicxulub impact, must have created a spectac...
The Israeli satellite of remote sensing of the Earth Eros B on Thursday was brought to the Svobodny cosmodrome in the Amur region.
"The date of the launch of the spacecraft will be set later, but the satellite will be placed in orbit without fail in late April." - Svobodny Spokespe...
Title: Discovery of a new M32-like "Compact Elliptical" galaxy in the halo of the Abell 496 cD galaxy Authors: Igor Chilingarian, Veronique Cayatte, Laurent Chemin, Florence Durret, Tatiana Ferraz Lagana, Christophe Adami, Eric Slezak Aims: ''Compact ellipticals'&...
Title: The isolated fossil group RXJ1119.7+2126 Authors: C. Adami, D. Russeil, F. Durret Fossil groups are galaxy structures that probably underwent a nearly complete fusion of all intermediate magnitude galaxies into a single large central dominant galaxy. However, the formation and evolut...
The Kosmos Satellite that was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome LC32 on June 1978, for the Cosmos 1025 mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 10th March @ 09:00 UTC ± 8 Hours. Predicted Decay Location 74.8° N, 188.7° E [url=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/415592...
A freak "boom" in the middle of the night set off car alarms and woke residents. Student Jason North, 23, was one of several people to be disturbed by the noise heard along the south coast in the Peacehaven area at 1am today. "It was like a sonic boom. It sounded a long way off but it made en...
Hum, It seems that the OrbView-3 high-resolution imaging minisatellite owned and operated by Orbital Imaging Corporation (ORBIMAGE) of Dulles, VA, has suffered an abnormality in orbit and is unable to transmit images. Orb...
Oxyrhynchus is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. For the past century, the area around Oxyrhynchus has been continually excavated, yielding an enormous collection of papyrus texts dating from the time of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods of Egy...
Tropical Cyclone Jacob is forecast to strike land in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 48 hours probability for TS is 60% in about 36 hours
Title: Young Neutron Stars and Their Wind Nebulae
Authors: Patrick Slane
With Teragauss magnetic fields, surface gravity sufficiently strong to significantly modify light paths, central densities higher than that of a standard nucleus, and rotation periods of only hundredt...
NASA will preview the next space shuttle mission during a day-long series of media briefings beginning at 9 a.m. EST, Monday, Nov. 6 from the Johnson Space Centre, Houston. The briefings will be broadcast live on NASA TV and include overviews of the space station and shuttle programs, the mission, s...