A strong magnitude 6.2 earthquake occurred at 10:25:01 (UTC) on Sunday, November 13, 2005, in Seram, Indonesia, 95 km NorthEast of Ambon, Moluccas, at a depth of 35 km.
Location 3.174°S, 128.874°E
Maybe Marvin the Martian dropped it off on a jaunt across the galaxy, or maybe it's just another ordinary rock, but a township couple believes the black, gray, gold and green baseball-sized stone that mysteriously appeared in their yard about a week ago may be from outer space.
Joe and Kathleen Mar...
People interested in exploring Thetford's past, as well as finding out what the life of an archaeologist involves, can learn more at the Ancient House.
The Museum of Thetford Life is running a series of six evening talks, starting on Monday.
Each session, from 6pm to 8pm, covers Thetford's hist...
Representatives from the UK and other European political, industrial and scientific sectors, together with members of the general public are helping to shape the future direction of space exploration.
At the first in a series of stakeholder consultation workshops held in Edinburgh on the 8/9...
Title: Oph 1622-2405: Not a Planetary-Mass Binary
Authors: K. L. Luhman (Penn State), K. N. Allers (IfA), D. T. Jaffe (Texas), M. C. Cushing (Arizona), K. A. Williams (Arizona), C. L. Slesnick (Caltech), W. D. Vacca (NASA Ames)
We present an analysis of the mass and age of the y...
Ejector seats, parachutes and little white lambs will come together in the new year for an exhibition about women in space.
Artist David Blyth, of Clatt, near Huntly, is putting the finishing touches to a multi media project called Knockturn.
The work, which will appear at Aberdeen Art Gallery...
Boeing and the U.S. Air Force MILSATCOM Systems Wing have exercised an $8.4 million contract option to activate Phase II of the Enhanced Polar System (EPS) payload study. Phase I began in July 2006 with a $1.5 million award to Boeing to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-...
The 209th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society and the 2007 Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers is being held jointly at Washington State Convention and Trade Centre, 5-10 January 2007, Seattle, Washington.
[url=http://www.aas.org/meetings/]Read mo...
If you are among many who sighted green streaks in the sky at about 7.30pm on Sunday, astronomers say you had probably seen a meteor.
James Chong could still visualise the green streak when he shut his eyes.
What he saw on Sunday evening was also spotted by many others in Singapore.
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A Hubble Space Telescope image shows a dwarf galaxy, VCC128, at the centre, and the enlargement at right shows a double nucleus that suggests the presence of a black hole.
It is only the second time a supermassive black hole has been discerned in a dwarf galaxy, and only the third time that astronome...
A magnitude 15.8 supernova, 2007C, was discovered on the 7th January, 2007, by Koichi Itagaki in the Sb/Sc spiral galaxy NGC 4981, in the constellation Virgo.
The supernova is located 8".3 east, 21" south of the centre of the galaxy.
Position(20000): R.A. = 13h08m49s.32, Dec. = -06°47'0...
David Fisher, an astronomy graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, is making important contributions to the future understanding of galaxy evolution by studying the different types of bulges at the hearts of nearby spiral galaxies. This work is being presented this week at the 207t...
Magnitude 14.0 supernova, SN2005cs, discovered in the Whirlpool galaxy on 28th June 2005.
Position(2000): RA 13 29 53.37 Dec +47 10 28.2
Offset RA -15 Dec -78 arcse...
North India is in the grip of a severe cold wave with several places in Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir experiencing sub-zero temperatures.
After several days of clear skies, the national Capital was on Tuesday enveloped in a thick blanket of fog as it woke up to a chilly morning with the temperature ho...
Title: The Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) -- Overview
Authors: N. Scoville, H. Aussel, M. Brusa, P. Capak, C. M. Carollo, M. Elvis, M. Giavalisco, L. Guzzo, G. Hasinger, C. Impey, J.-P. Kneib, O. LeFevre, S. J. Lilly, B. Mobasher, A. Renzini, R. M. Rich, D. B. Sanders, E. Schinne...
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