Numerous East Tennesseans reported seeing a bright green light streak through the sky Wednesday night. Police dispatchers said they got so many calls, they didn't have time to count them. Reports on its direction of travel varied somewhat. Most accounts on its shape and color reported it bein...
Dozens of people in Missouri and southern Illinois reported seeing flaming objects falling from the sky Sunday evening. People reported small objects that looked like bright lights or something burning, with flaming tails behind some of them, said Ken Tretter of Missouri State Highway Patrol in...
For more than two decades, China has laboured to build its first state-of-the-art jet fighter as part of the country's drive to become a leading military power. In December, it appeared to have closed in on that ambition when it revealed, in an unusual blaze of publicity, that its new fighter, th...
Title: 12 Bootis: the need for asteroseismic constraints
Authors: A. Miglio, J. Montalban, C. Maceroni, J. De Ridder, F. D'Antona
12 Bootis is a double-lined spectroscopic binary whose orbit has been resolved by interferometry. We present a detailed modelling of the syst...
Title: A longer XMM-Newton look at I Zwicky 1: Variability of the X-ray continuum, absorption, and iron Kalpha line Authors: L. C. Gallo (1,2), W. N. Brandt (3), E. Costantini (4,5), A. C. Fabian (6), K. Iwasawa (1), I. E. Papadakis (7) ((1) MPE; (2) Univ. St Andrews; (3) PSU; (4) SRON; (5) Utrecht Univ...
A Minuteman III LF-10 ICBM test launch (non-orbital) is scheduled for February 16th, from the Vandenberg AFB site, Ventura County, California.
The payload is one unarmed Mark 21 warhead.
The target impact area is the Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein in the central Pacific. The Air Force will anno...
Some 500 aircraft companies from around the world have flocked to an air show in southern India hoping to cash in on the country's booming aviation sector. The five-day event at the Yelahanka air base in Bangalore will showcase a range of new civilian and military aircraft. India plans to buy 126...
According to the Iranian news agency ISNA, Iran has successfully tested the TOR-M1 air defence missile system recently supplied by Russia. The tests were part of military exercises that began in southern Iran Wednesday after Russia completed the delivery of 29 TOR-M1 anti-aircraft missile sys...
The giant elliptical ESO 325-G004 looms large at the cluster's centre. The galaxy is as massive as 100 billion of our suns. Hubble resolves thousands of globular star clusters orbiting ESO 325-G004. Globular clusters are compact groups of hundreds of thousands of stars that are gravitationa...
Two very bright meteorites - bolides - flew over the Czech Republic, one on January 26, the other a few seconds before midnight on Sunday, public Czech Television (CT) reported today. It said that the flash of the bodies that entered the atmosphere was very strong. Last night it was one thousand time...
Senior officials and military personnel from the Ministry of Defence in London spent a day on Salisbury Plain recently, working alongside staff and volunteers of various environmental groups, helping to clear a 200-metre length of Bronze Age linear ditch.
The work was part of the fifth annua...
Residents of a remote Chinese village are hoping that DNA tests will prove one of history's most unlikely legends - that they are descended from Roman legionaries lost in antiquity. Scientists have taken blood samples from 93 people living in and around Liqian, a settlement in northwestern Ch...
Hazaribagh’s prehistoric megaliths are finally receiving the academic and popular attention they deserve. Subhashis Das has been working tirelessly to preserve them and started the Megalithic Utsav at Punkhri- Barwadih two years ago to generate awareness about these sentinels from the remot...
In 2011, Russia plans to orbit a new astrophysical observatory as part of its Federal Space Program (2006-2015). The project, called Spektr Rentgen-Gamma (SRG), integrates a Russian X-ray observatory (ART) and two European programs. ART is a combination of X-ray telescopes with coded aperture...
2nd Volcano-Ice Interaction on Earth and Mars Conference Conveners: Ben Edwards, Dickinson College, USA; Ian Skilling, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Lionel Wilson, University of Lancaster, UK, Hugh Tuffen, University of Lancaster, UK. This conference is a follow-up to the first Volcano-Ic...
