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New Variable star in Cassiopeia
S. Nakano of Sumoto, Japan has discovered a brightening (magnitude 11.8) star in Cassiopeia.
Position(2000): R.A. = 00h 09m 21.81s, Dec. = +54o 39' 43.8"
Hubble celebrates its 15th Anniversary with Spectacular New Images.
During the 15 years the Hubble Space Telescope has orbited the Earth, it has taken more than 700,000 photos of the cosmos; images that have awed and astounded astronomers and the public.
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The bear that left a 3-foot-long claw mark in an Ice Age clay bank was the largest bear species ever to walk the Earth, about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and capable of moving its 1,800-pound body at up to 45 mph in a snarling dash for prey.
The claw mark by the extinct giant short-faced bear still looks fr...
A meteorite worth a million dollars, once at the centre of an ownership dispute, has been stolen from a security business.
The space rock, known as the [url=http://www.lexsimshauser.com....
Research carried out at the University of Pennsylvania has definitively measured and described the Brownian motion of an isolated ellipsoidal particle, completing a path laid out by Einstein 100 years ago when he first described rotational Brownian motion for spheres in water.
Brownian moti...
Plasma physicists at the Universities of Texas and Michigan have photographed speedy plasma waves, known as Langmuir waves, for the first time using a specially designed holographic-strobe camera.
The waves are the fastest matter waves ever photographed, clocking in at about 99.997% of the s...
Some Commerce City, (Colorado), residents said they experienced what felt like an earthquake or an explosion over the weekend.
Several people in the 14000 block of East 101st Avenue near the Reunion subdivision reported feeling the explosions, while others said they didn't feel anything.
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In November, the planet Mercury will make a rather feeble attempt to eclipse the Sun.
On Nov. 8, Mercury will pass through inferior conjunction, a point in its orbit where it is directly between Earth and the Sun. Normally the innermost planet is not visible during an inferior conjunction.
Bu...
Something scary appears to be slithering across the plane of our Milky Way galaxy in this new Halloween image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The snake-like object is actually the core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to swallow dozens of solar systems. In fact, astronomers say its "belly"...
Reports of a loud explosion on the north Cornwall and Devon border are being investigated.
A number of residents reported hearing a loud bang between 1130 and 1200 BST around the Bude and Holsworthy area. Others said their homes were damaged.
Western Power and the British Geological Survey hav...
Twp mysterious 'explosions' in the early hours woke up residents across the Mercury patch, set off car and burglar alarms and knocked items from window sills.
The bangs roused bemused householders from their slumber at around 3am and 3.30am on Monday.
Residents in Stanstead Abbotts reported...
Lessons being learned from massive impact craters on Earth and beyond could help settle the question of whether such a crater exists in the eastern Hudson Bay.
Any map of Hudson Bay shows a suspicious, semi-circular coastline in northwestern Quebec. The Belcher Islands, just to the west of that c...
