China has successfully tested a new 120 ton-grade rocket engine with liquid oxygen/kerosene propellants for 600 seconds, at the Ballistic Missile Technology Institute, located about 48 kilometres southwest of Beijing
The new rocket engine, with a 60 percent higher efficiency than curren...
Archaeologists in Visakhapatnam claim that a centuries-old temple exists two kilometres from Visakhapatnam coast, on the sea bed.
While the coastal city of Visakhapatnam is steeped in history, few know that there was a temple called “Visakeswara Temple” on the coast of the city. Many centur...
Title: ESO Imaging Survey: Infrared Deep Public Survey
Authors: L. F. Olsen, J.-M. Miralles, L. da Costa, R. Madejsky, H. E. Jorgensen, A. Mignano, S. Arnouts, C. Benoist, J. P. Dietrich, R. Slijkhuis, S. Zaggia
This paper presents new J and Ks data obtained from observation...
Rare Blob Unveiled: Evidence for Hydrogen Gas Falling onto a Dark Matter Clump?
ESO's VLT has helped scientists to discover a large primordial 'blob', more than 10 billion light-years away. The most likely scenario to account for its existence and properties is that it represents the early st...
A nuclear-powered submarine that will reportedly be leased to India was launched at a shipyard in the Russian Far East, a news agency report said.
The Nerpa nuclear submarine was launched at the Amur shipyard and will join Russia's Pacific Fleet in 2007 after undergoing sea trials, the RIA Novo...
U.S. scientists say bacteria forcing the closure of many beaches may not be coming from people, animals, or sewage -- but might be produced in the sand. Researchers at Central Michigan University say they have found E. coli can live and thrive in beach sand without a warm-blooded host.
While not...
A Russian nuclear-powered submarine from the Northern Fleet successfully launched a ballistic missile from the Barents Sea in combat training, on Friday.
The RSM-54 missile was fired from the submarine at 06:25 GMT (10:25 Moscow time) towards the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsu...
Pegasus XL Offshore Launch
An air-launched Orbital Sciences Pegasus rocket will carry three small microsatellites into orbit for JPL's Space Technology 5 mission.
The airborne launch has a target drop time of 1357:21-1519:21 GMT. on February 28th, 2006. The payload will be...
Silvano Casulli, Colleverde di Guidonia, Rome, Italy, and R. Behrend, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland, have reported that they have taken photometric measurements over three recent nights of the 14th magnitude near earth asteroid (6406) 1992 MJ.
They observed deep eclipses (~0.7 mag) with...
A magnitude 16.1 supernova 2006di was discovered by Berto Monard on the 24th June, 2006 in the galaxy NGC 439, in the constellation Sculptor.
Position(2000): R.A. = 01h13m46s.85, Dec. = -31°44'30".2
The supernova is located 6" west and 19" north of the nucleus.
As yet the type is un...
Amid victory yells, a Florida Institute of Technology student-developed and built Pathfinder vehicle launched on the 28th June at 2:30 p.m. from Launch Complex 47 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The rocket, dubbed “Panther 1” for the Florida Tech mascot, followed a perfect parabolic pat...
Tonight the moon passes just a degree or so from Regulus the bright star of the constellation Leo.
Leo is one of the oldest and most distinctive constellations in the night sky. It lies due south around midnight in the spring. Tonight it is almost due west. The `head` of the lion is like a backward qu...
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