Yesterday Dr. James DeLaurier, an aeronautical engineer and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies, fulfilled a lifelong dream, seeing his manned mechanical flapping-wing airplane, or ornithopter, fly — a dream first imagined by Leonardo da Vinci....
About 60 standing stones, some of them nearly 2 metres tall, have been unearthed in Kerdruelland, near Belz (Morbihan, Brittany), a few kilometres from Carnac. The standing stones are lying on the ground and they date to the Early Neolithic, or about 5000 BCE. The newly found stones are of great inte...
This mosaic of three images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows Mare Humorum on the Moon.
AMIE obtained the top frame on 1 January 2006, from a distance of 1087 kilometres from the surface, with a ground resolution of 98 metres per pixel...
A magnitude 14.5 supernova, 2006dd, was discovered on the 19th June, 2006, by Berto Monard, in the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316[img]http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0008/ngc1316...
Title: NGC 3310 and Its Tidal Debris: Remnants of Galaxy Evolution
Authors: Elizabeth H. Wehner, John S. Gallagher, Polichronis Papaderos, Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben, Kyle B. Westfall
NGC 3310 is a local galaxy with an intense, ongoing starburst thought to result from a m...
Typhoon Ewiniar formed in the western Pacific on June 29, 2006, a hundred miles south of the Yap Islands in the Federated States of Micronesia. The tropical depression gathered power and size as it travelled in a northerly direction , passing almost directly over the Yap Islands
A projected tra...
ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft captured this image of crater Gassendi on the Moon. The spacecraft's advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) captured the photograph on January 13 at a distance of 1220 km (760 miles) from the surface. Gassendi is an impact crater on the near side of the Moon, but it's unusu...
Just hours after the space shuttle left the Earth's atmosphere and North Korea test- fired some of its arsenal, young rocketeers from Dundee were making their own bid to reach the stars.
The group of eight youngsters, aged between eight and 12, were taking part in a workshop at the Mills Observat...
A novel telescope that will aid the understanding of the early universe is moving closer to full-scale construction thanks to a $4.9 million award from the National Science Foundation to a U.S. consortium led by MIT.
The Mileura Widefield Array - Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD), which is bei...
Cubic IDE 1.3 is available.
Cubic IDE is a modular, extensible development environment for AmigaOS and MorphOS, designed to assists during all stages of building software: editing, compiling, Rexx/BASIC/LISP scripting, assisted and automatic generation of installations...
Title: Radio Spectrum and Distance of the SNR HB9
Authors: D.A. Leahy, W.W. Tian
New images are presented of the supernova remnant HB9 based on 408 MHz and 1420 MHz continuum emission and HI-line emission data of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey by the Dominion Radio Astrop...
After nearly three years of work, members of the SPIRIT (Student Projects Involving Rocket Investigation Techniques) program successfully launched SPIRIT III at 8:39 a.m. Norwegian time, on July 1st, at the Ando...
Title: ULTRACAM observations of SDSS J170213.26+322954.1 - an eclipsing cataclysmic variable in the period gap
Authors: S. P. Littlefair, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh, B. T. Gaensicke
Researchers present high-speed, three-colour photometry of the eclipsing cataclysmic...
