Dukono Volcano on Halmahera, Indonesia, released a plume of ash and/or steam on December 5, 2006. The Terra satellite captured this image the same day. In this image, Dukono’s ash plume peeks out from under fluffy white clouds clustered over the volcano’s summit.
Latitude:, 1.68°N, L...
Ilkka Lehtoranta has released Digital Almanac III for MorphOS.
Achim Stegemann created Digital Almanac and releasing it as freeware, with source code.
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The cold wave has intensified across north India following snowfall and scattered rainfall in the upper reaches of Himalayas.
Temperatures have plummeted several degrees below normal in many northern states. The Kashmir Valley, which witnessed snowfall ranging between three and eight feet...
Pakistan has successfully test-fired a new version of its short-range nuclear-capable missile.
A military statement said the Hatf-III (Ghazanvi) ballistic missile was successfully launched from an undisclosed location on Saturday. The missile has a range of 290 km.
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The 2,964 meter high Nyamulagira volcano erupted at 20:00 GMT on Monday near the eastern Congolese town of Goma, which was devastated by a volcanic eruption in July 2002, but this latest eruption is not threatening to the town, but lava flows may affect the surrounding Virunga national park.
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The construction of the multibillion-rupee Diamer-Bhasha dam will submerge one of the world's greatest rock art galleries and other archaeological sites belonging to various ancient civilisations.
Professor Dr Harald Hauptmann, German archaeologist and head of a research project called...
Many Jackson County residents felt the earth shake and rumble for several seconds Wednesday morning, creating a myriad of suspicions as to what had happened, but officials believe sonic booms from jets may have been the cause.
Civil Defence Director Butch Loper said about 10 a.m. two loud noises...
Title: IX Russian-Finnish Symposium on Radio Astronomy "Multi-wavelength investigations of solar and stellar activity and active galactic nuclei"
Authors: V. E. Abramov-Maximov, T. G. Arshakian, V. M. Bogod, V. N. Borovik, A. N. Burenkov, N. N. Bursov, V. T. Doroshenko, Yu....
Title: Direct imaging of the young spectroscopic binary HD 160934
Authors: Felix Hormuth (1), Wolfgang Brandner (1 and 2), Stefan Hippler (1), Markus Janson (1), Thomas Henning (1) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, (2) UCLA, Division of Astronomy, Los A...
e frontier, has announced the availability of the "Earth & Moon Pro Pack," for use n their 3D animation software, Poser.
The Earth & Moon Pro Pack includes 3D models of the Earth & Moon, Earth at Night, 12 Months of Earth, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Hubble Telescope and Pro Pack Bac...
Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.
The sarcophagus, which dates back to at least A.D. 390, has been the subject of an extended excavation that began in 2002 and was c...
NASA Schedules Briefing to Announce Significant Find on Mars
WASHINGTON - NASA hosts a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Dec. 6, to present new science results from the Mars Global Surveyor. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E Street, S.W. in Was...
