Title: Window To The Stars
Authors: Robert G. Izzard, Evert Glebbeek
Researchers present Window To The Stars, a graphical user interface to the popular TWIN single/binary stellar evolution code, for novices, students and professional astrophysicists.
It removes the...
Earth will be at aphelion, its furthest orbital distance from the Sun, around midnight on 3 July. It will then be 152,095,745 km from the Sun, compared with its minimum distance from the Sun (perihelion) of 147,103, 622 km in January.
Since the eccentricity of our planet’s orbit is very small and...
Title: SW Horologii—A Mira Variable Star
Author: Peter Williams
Abstract :
Visual observations of the little studied Mira variable star SW Hor during the 18-year interval 1986 through 2003 are presented. These provide the basic parameters of its variability, i...
Six Russian volunteers are to get a taste of travelling to Mars, without ever leaving Moscow.
They will be locked up for 500 days in an airtight capsule resembling a spaceship, where they will eat sterile food and breath processed air.
The experiment is designed to help scientists better unde...
This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows the crater Mersenius C on the Moon.
Credits: ESA/Space-X
AMIE obtained this sequence on 13 January 2006, from a distance of 1149, 1172, 1195 kilometres...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced the launch schedule of the 22nd scientific mission satellite "SOLAR-B" by the M-V Launch Vehicle No. 7 to the Space Activities Commission (SAC) as follows.
(Dates and time are Japan Standard Time.)
Scheduled date of launch : Sept...
This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Lomonosov on the Moon’s far side.
Credits: ESA/Space-X
AM...
A Dundee company which has exported space technology to Nasa has won praise from the Scottish Executive.
Star-Dundee has also had its products taken up by the European Space Agency and the US Naval Research Laboratory.
The company was formed as a...
Total Amiga issue 24 has an interview with Elena Novaretti the author of ZoneXplorer, the best Fractal program for Amiga OS.
The full interview, complete with detailed mathematical discussion and explanatory diagrams from Elena, are available as a PDF from the website:
[url=http://ww...
A magnitude 15.8 Supernova, 2006dw, was discovered on the 23rd July, 2006, by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in an anonymous galaxy near NGC 6109.
The supernova is located 3".5 west and 1".7 north of the nucleus.
Position(2000): R.A. = 16h17m43s.29, Dec. = +34°57'55".1
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According to Indian defence officials a surface-to-air Trishul (Trident) missile was tested from the Chandipur-on-Sea range in the eastern coastal state of Orissa, on Sunday.
The missile, that was last tested in December, is designed to carry a 15-kilogram conventional warhead over a dist...
Carnegie Institution planetary-formation theorist, and 1997 National Medal of Science recipient, George Wetherill, died from heart failure on July 19, 2006, at his Washington, D.C., home. Wetherill revolutionised our understanding of how our planets and solar system formed through his theo...
Title: Cepheid Masses: FUSE Observations of S Musca
Authors: Nancy Remage Evans, Derck Massa, Alexander Fullerton, George Sonneborn, Rosina Iping
S Musca is the Cepheid with the hottest known companion. The large ultraviolet flux means that it is the only Cepheid compani...
The strangest satellites in the solar system:
Found in stretched, slanted, loop-d-loop orbits, an odd breed of planetary satellites opens a window into the formation of the planets.
By David Jewitt, Scott S. Sheppard and Jan Kleyna
[url=http://www.dtm.ciw.edu/sheppard/p...
