British Schools Exploring Society (BSES Expeditions) is looking for 12 lucky people aged 18-23 to take part in their first Antarctic region expedition aboard HMS Endurance, taking place from November 2007 to January 2008. The South Antarctic region is one of the last truly pristine regions on Ear...
Civil aviation authorities in India are struggling to determine what caused at least 10 pilots to report seeing a "ball of fire" in the air on Sunday morning. Described by several pilots as a "ball of fire, orange in colour and scattered," the phenomenon was said to have appea...
Title: Hubble Space Telescope Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Dwarf Nova VW Hyi in Superoutburst Authors: Jason Merritt, Christopher Night, Edward M. Sion We obtained three consecutive HST spectroscopic observations of a single superoutburst of the dwarf nova VW Hydri. The spectra cover t...
Iridium® Satellite LLC announces plans to open a new telemetry, tracking and command/control (TTAC) earth station in Norway. The TTAC opening is part of a continuous improvement plan to enhance Iridium's industry-leading constellation reliability and global mobile satellite communic...
Scientists at North Carolina State University have discovered that the fungus-like pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine originally came from the Andes of South America. By comparing the sequences of both the nuclear and the cellular powerhouse, mitochondria, of nearly 100 pathog...
An experimental atomic clock based on a single mercury atom is now at least five times more precise than the national standard clock based on a “fountain” of caesium atoms, according to a paper by physicists at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the J...
Panamanian geologists have found an meteorite at Rio Hato, a coastal town west of the capital Panama City. The meteorite fell onto Rio Hato's beach last Friday, geologist Juan de Dios Villa told the press on Wednesday. The landing was witnessed by a security guard, who described it as a ball of fi...
Anatahan Volcano has been putting out gas and steam plume that have moved into Saipan and Tinian, according to the Emergency Management Office yesterday. EMO said concentrations of volcanic gases should be low, but that the haze and odor ma...
Title: Constraints on the Massive Supernova Progenitors Authors: Bojan Arbutina Generally accepted scheme distinguishes two main classes of supernovae (SNe): Ia resulting from the old stellar population (deflagration of a white dwarf in close binary systems), and SNe of type II and Ib/c whose...
Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the "mock theta functions." Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan f...
Iran has successfully tested a rocket early today. According to Mohsen Bahrami, head of Iran's Space Research Centre, Iran's Science and Technology and Defence Ministries had built the rocket. No other details were given. Iran in the past has announced that it wants to launch its own sat...
Constellation Canis Major Exposure Time 15 Seconds 23 February 2007 23:31 UTC Expand (85kb, 617 x 1024) Canis Major is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also in Ptolemy's list of 48 constellations. It is said to represent one of the dogs following Orion the hunter (see al...
On Wednesday, February 21st, came remarkable news: another nova has apparently gone off in Scorpius, and it's a mere 3° due south of the first! Yuji Nakamura, codiscoverer of the first one, found the likely nova at magnitude 9.3 on two CCD images taken at February 19.86 Universal Time. A day late...
The ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer, which allows astronomers to scrutinise objects with a precision equivalent to that of a 130-m telescope, is proving itself an unequalled success every day. One of the latest instruments installed, AMBER, has led to a flurry of scientific results, an a...
