A bright magnitude 15.3 Supernova, 2006ef, was discovered on the 18 August, 2006, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the spiral galaxy NGC 809 in the Constellation Cetus.
Position(2000): R.A. = 02h04m19s.51, De...
Title: The nuclear regions of NGC 7582 from (NeII) spectroscopy at 12.8 microns - an estimate of the black hole mass
Authors: M. Wold (1), M. Lacy (2), H.U. Kaeufl (1), R. Siebenmorgen (1) ((1) European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Muenchen, (2) Spitzer Science Centre/Cal...
Calls streamed in to local police stations during the night after an unidentified flying object darted over the night skies in northern Norway. A top astronomer, though, thinks it was another meteorite.
Several police districts logged reports from members of the public who observed "somethin...
A meteor shower sparked fears a large aircraft was crashing into the sea off the Hebrides.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency in Stornoway received dozens of calls on Friday night about a fireball falling from the sky.
Lifeboat crews in the Western Isles were alerted as emergency services pr...
Iran has test fired tactical surface-to-sea missiles during Iranian military exercises over the weekend.
Iran's army launched the new, Iranian-built equipment in the south of the country, in the Kashan desert, about 150 miles southeast of Tehran, during military exercises,
Tactical su...
Aurora University submitted a proposal on Friday to purchase Yerkes Observatory and the surrounding acreage and buildings located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, owned by the University of Chicago.
"Our goal is to maximize the long-term educational use of one of America’s significant scie...
Title: Discovery of an eclipsing X-ray binary with a 32.69 hour period in M101: an analogue of Her X-1 or LMC X-4?
Authors: Jifeng Liu, Rosanne di Stefano, Jeffrey McClintock (CfA), Albert Kong (MIT), Joel Bregman (UMich), Kip Kuntz (JHU/GSFC)
We report the discovery of an ec...
Its possible that a medium class RS-20 carrier rocket with several space vehicles ( Egyptsat 1 , Saudisat 3, SaudiComsat3/4/5/6/7 , AKS 1, AKS 2, Cubesat-Combo N-Cube 1)will launch on May 27 (aboard a Dnepr 1 rocket.)
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Asteroids in orbit between Mars and Jupiter have gained a new identity this month after being named after three Imperial College London meteorite experts. Drs Phil Bland Opens in new window, Matthew Genge Opens in new window and Mark Sephton Opens in new window are among around fifty scientists hon...
In a gargantuan move, Dr. Chrinjeev Kathuria and Geoff Sheerin of Canadian Arrow have joined hands to form a new corporation, PLANETSPACE to fulfil their dreams of taking passengers to space on a commercial basis.
The company targets, according to Kathuria, to fly around 2000 astronaut...
For most people, soap bubbles are little more than ethereal, ephemeral childhood amusements, or a bit of kitsch associated with the Lawrence Welk Show.
But for Johns Hopkins University mathematician William Minicozzi, the translucent film that automatically arranges itself into the leas...
Archaeologists have excavated a bronze axe at Cat Tien archaeological site in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, Vietnam.
Scientists are studying whether the bronze axe, the first ever found in Cat Tien, was a production tool or an item used in ancient rituals.
A number of bronze cas...
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