* Astronomy

C/2006 L1 ( Garradd ) will be at opposition in December. ate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase m1 2006 12 01 08 37.86 +32 05.6 0.811 1.588 123.9 31.0 13.6 2006 12 06 07 56.48 +39 53.6 0.751 1.617 136.8 24.6 13.5 2006 12 11 06 56.92 +47 07.0 0.728 1.647 147.8 18.6 13.5 2006 12 16 05 41...

Errors in short-term weather forecasting will be greatly reduced when a new Shanghai-made meteorological satellite is put into formal use next month. The Fengyun-2C satellite was launched last October as China's first international-quality satellite. The weather monitor has been...

UFO Crashes in Russia’s Siberia An unidentified flying object has crashed in Krasnoyarsk Region, Siberia, causing a forest fire, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Friday. The crash took place in the taiga between the towns of Yeniseisk and Lesosibirsk, the agency said quoting...

ESA’s Envisat satellite and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) data relay test satellite Kodama have successfully completed an interoperability test demonstrating that scientific data from Envisat can be transmitted to Kodama and from there transmitted to the Japanese ground r...

The Japanese military successfully tested a new surface-to-air defensive missile in a live training exercise for the first time Thursday in a remote area of the American Southwest. The Chu-SAM missile was launched about 30 miles northeast of El Paso, Texas, at McGregor Range, where Japanese fo...

The Newton stone is a small, rather unassuming pillar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. On one side is faded, ancient writing, on the other a curling snake and cylindrical patterning. Many would say that it is a typical example of a Scottish standing stone. Yet one man claims that this is no ordinary sto...

A Chinese Chang Zheng (Long March) 3B carrier rocket is scheduled to launch the SinoSat 2 (a.k.a. Xinnuo 2), satellite at the end of October, 2006, from Launch Complex 2 at the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. According to Sun Laiyan, administrator of the China National Space Administration,...

Title: Chandra Multiwavelength Project X-ray Point Source Number Counts and the Cosmic X-ray Background Authors: Minsun Kim, Belinda J. Wilkes, Dong-Woo Kim, Paul J. Green, Wayne A. Barkhouse, Myung Gyoon Lee, John D. Silverman, Harvey D. Tananbaum We present the Chandr...

Not since the use of germanium in the first transistor radios and the discovery of its crucial role in semiconductor research more than 50 years ago has the study of this element garnered so much attention. This half-century rebound in popularity is thanks to a University of Houston scientist and...

Residents in central and western Victoria have reported seeing a bright light, possibly a comet, streaking across the sky just before sunset. Callers to ABC Radio reported seeing the bright green coloured object shooting westward in the sky from Bendigo to Horsham in the state's north-west dow...

Sunspot 10927 has emerged from the Suns eastern limb.

Japan's 48th Antarctic expedition will leave Tokyo for their journey on Tuesday evening from Narita International Airport. The expedition, made up of 56 researchers and four media personnel, will first arrive at Fremantle port in Australia, where they will board the 11,600-ton icebreaker Sh...

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Looking at them you might not guess it. But deep in a basement room on the University of Toronto campus, three unassuming computer hackers with messy hair and wrinkled T-shirts are working to tear down China's "Great Firewall," the most sophisticated Internet censorship system in the worl...

Sunspot 10926