Giant meteor sails over Saguaro Lake
Residents who saw a ball of fire in the sky late Sunday evening near Saguaro Lake witnessed a giant meteor, officials said.
Phoenix and Scottsdale police and Rural/Metro Fire Department dispatchers received calls from residents reporting a plane...
Title: The Carina-Near Moving Group
Authors: B. Zuckerman, M.S. Bessell, Inseok Song, S. Kim
We identify a group of ~20 co-moving, mostly southern hemisphere, ~200 Myr old stars near Earth. Of the stars likely to be members of this Carina-Near Moving Group, in either its nuc...
Edinburgh is a city of festivals, there is no doubt about it. And even though the arts festivals of August may be a distant memory by now, the Beltane Fire Society is busy preparing to celebrate another festival, Samhuinn.
On October 31, the society will host a spectacular procession through the...
Eutelsat confirms that operations of its W3A satellite have been fully restored with normal operational mode following an anomaly occurring earlier today which caused an interruption of service. From 17.45 today Paris time (15.45 UTC) clients using W3A were able to re-establish full commercia...
Title:A New Survey for Giant Arcs
Authors: Joseph F. Hennawi, Michael D. Gladders, Masamune Oguri, Neal Dalal, Benjamin Koester, Priyamvada Natarajan, Michael A. Strauss, Naohisa Inada, Issha Kayo, Huan Lin, Hubert Lampeitl, James Annis, Neta A. Bahcall, Donald P. Schneide...
Work is set to begin on constructing what will become the largest onshore wind farm in Europe.
The £300m Whitelee project will see 140 turbines built on the Eaglesham Moor, south of Glasgow.
It is claimed that they will generate 322 megawatts of electricity - enough to power 200,000 homes.
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Anomalous Increase in Carbon Capacitance at Pore Sizes Less Than 1 Nanometer
Carbon supercapacitors, which are energy storage devices that use ion adsorption on the surface of highly porous materials to store charge, have numerous advantages over other power-source technologies...
2006 RZ was discovered by Helmut Michels at Herrenberg Observatory (Germany) on September 4, 2006.
It will approach within 0.0129 AU (4.9 lunar distances) on October 7. Its physical properties are unknown, but its absolute magnitude of 20.1 suggests a diameter within a factor of two of 300 meter...
any news about hotbird 8 which was supposed to be delivered to baikonur today so that tomorrow preparations will start for the proton-M/Breeze-M launch on the 21st of July????
Work by archaeologists to uncover the secrets of Bury Mount in Towcester is due to start on 16 October after the site was cleared of trees and bushes during the summer.
Northamptonshire Archaeology have been contracted by South Northamptonshire Council to investigate the Moat Lane site for si...
The Navier-Stokes equations, named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes, are a set of equations that describe the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. The...
Hot Bird 3 has suffered a major power failure.
The geosynchronous satellite (13° East) provided twenty active channels, offering Direct-To-Home reception for Europe.
The satellite was launched in 1997, and was to have stayed in service until 2012.
HotBird 8 replaced HotBird 3 at 13° Eas...