* Astronomy

Title: The Binary Nucleus in VCC 128: A Candidate Supermassive Black Hole in a Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy Authors: Victor P. Debattista (University of Washington, Brooks Fellow), Ignacio Ferreras (King's College London), Anna Pasquali (Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie),...

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A magnitude 15.5 Supernova, 2006hn, was discovered othe 28th September, 2006, by A. Sehgal, R. Gagliano and Tim Puckett in the galaxy UGC 6154 in the constellation Draco. The supernova is located 7".6 north of the centre of UGC 6154 Position(2000): R.A. = 11h07m18s.67, Dec. = +76°41'49"...

A team of Syrian and French archaeologists has discovered a Neolithic temple in northern Syria that could be the oldest in the Middle East. The discovery of the temple, dating to the Neolithic Age, was made by a joint Syrian-French archaeological team at Jaadet al-Maghara on the Euphrates river som...

Russian Tu-160 and Tu-95MS strategic bombers based in Engels conducted four cruise missile test launches at the Pem-boy test range on September 29, 2006. General Khvorov, the Commander of the 37th Air Army, said that two cruise missiles had successfully hit their targets and two had "succes...

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Typhoon Xangsane is forecast to strike land on the Philippines, near the town of Oras (12.1 N, 125.4 E), within 12 hours.

NASA and its international partners have selected astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov as the next crew for the International Space Station, designated as Expedition 13. Williams is a U.S. Army colonel and veteran of one space flight. He will serve as Expeditio...

Coloured lights spotted in the skies over South Australia's mid-north last night (Sept 26) are believed to be from a bright meteor. The flare-like object was first spotted by a fisherman near Whyalla. It was also seen in Port Pirie and Port Augusta. There have been suggestions the object ma...

Twin plumes of steam rising from the Cape Douglas area have Alaska Volcano Observatory scientists puzzled — and hoping for clear weather to figure out what’s going on. "It’s not in a place where we expect to see steam" - Rick Wessels, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist with the Alaska...

Title: The Pre-cataclysmic Binary HS 1136+6646 May Have a Companion Authors: James Liebert (1), Kurtis A. Williams (1,2), J. B. Holberg (3), D. K. Sing (3), ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) University of Texas, (3) Lunar and Planetary Laboratory) Because of the similarity of...

Four amateur cave explorers in Sequoia National Park have discovered a vast cave formed 1 million years ago, a labyrinth that stretches more than 1,000 feet into a mountain and features some of the most beautiful rock formations ever seen. Millions of crystals along its walls shimmer like diamon...

Thanks to the unique possibilities offered by ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have solved a 140-year-old mystery concerning active hot stars. They indeed show that the star Alpha Arae is spinning almost on the verge of breaking and that its disc rotates the same way...

A group of students from the University of Cambridge who plan on launching a rocket into space for less than £1,000 have taken the first steps towards achieving their ambitious goal. Carl Morland, Henry Hallam and Robert Fryers, all from the Department of Engineering have successfully sent a b...