The discovery of an unusual rock a quarter-century ago has been identified as the 69th meteorite find in Canada by U of C researchers.
The extra-terrestrial find was recovered by Vancouver resident Rolf Eipper in the 1980s when he found the rock after stepping out of his vehicle on a gravel road nea...
The tropical cyclone Bondo struck the Seychelles as an intense tropical cyclone at about 06:00 GMT on 21 December. Landfall was near 9.5 S, 51.5 E. Bondo brought 1-minute maximum sustained winds to the region of around 194 km/h. Wind gusts in the area may have been considerably higher.
Scientists at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in Berlin are presenting a new semiconductor device that modulates light and is driven by surface acoustic waves. The modulator is based on a so-called Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI). It is 300 times smaller in size than...
Researchers from the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and four universities have made the first experimental observation of rare particles of light emitted during the radioactive decay of the neutron, a key building block of matter. This work confir...
Title: The 15 - 20 Micron Spitzer Spectra of Interstellar Emission Features in NGC 7023
Authors: K. Sellgren (Ohio State), K. I. Uchida (JPL), M. W. Werner (JPL)
We present 15 - 20 micron long-slit spectra, from the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on Spitzer, of NGC 7023. We obser...
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to image a young, multiple-star system with unprecedented detail, yielding important clues about how such systems are formed. Most Sun-sized or larger stars in the Universe are not single, like our S...
Mists shroud the ancient stones linking a distant, mysterious past with modern-day Cumbria. Yet, the 13 stones that make up the High Head stone circle at Ivegill have only recently been installed by Penrith sculptor Brian Cowper.
The circle has been aligned with the winter and summer solstice an...
Title: Star formation in galaxies along the Pisces-Cetus Supercluster filaments
Authors: Scott C. Porter, Somak Raychaudhury (University of Birmingham, UK)
We investigate the variation of current star formation in galaxies as a function of distance along three superc...
Three perfectly preserved 245 million-year-old skulls of a salamander-like creature have been found in Tasmania.
The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) deputy director of collections and research, Andrew Rozefelds, said the fossils were found in the south of the state.
The skulls are...
China will launch the Shijian 8 (SJ-8) satellite from the Jiuquan launch centre, in September 2006.
According to officials with the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence,
The satellites mission will be to expose plant seeds to cosmic-rays during a 15-day spa...
Boeing and MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd (MEASAT) announced today that the MEASAT-3 communications satellite has been shipped from the Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, wh...
Some thought the sky was falling. Others thought it was a U-F-O.
However, it was actually a bright meteor that streaked across the Colorado sky early Friday, prompting a rash of calls to authorities and researchers.
No debris has been reported, but callers were concerned more about what was in t...
Title: The widest ultracool binary
Authors: Jose A. Caballero
Aims: I test the ejection scenario of formation of brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars through the detection of a very wide ultracool binary.
Methods: LEHPM 494 (M6.0 ±1.0 V) and DENIS-P J0021...
