* Astronomy

A very large sonic boom was heard in Tucson, Arizona, US, last night at 9 pm local time. Hundreds of people called the police and news stations. It seems that the weather was windy and cloudy outside, and a sonic boom from a military jet has not been discounted.

Detection of a 63 Degree Cold Stellar Stream in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Authors: Carl J. Grillmair, Odysseas Dionatos Researchers report on the detection in Sloan Digital Sky Survey data of a 63 degree-long tidal stream of stars, extending from Ursa Major to Cancer. The strea...

A large bright green fireball was spotted at 21:44 MTD near El Paso, US, last night. Witnesses reported a loud "boom" and windows were shaken. The fireball was seen heading in a southerly direction. As yet, it is not known if anything landed.

The near half Moon is in the constellation Leo tonight.

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This image shows three galaxies, which are sometimes called the NGC5985/Draco Group, that lie between theta and iota Draco, in the northern constellation Draco. [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa...

The Russian Defence Ministry has begun preparations for launching a Soyuz-V launch vehicle with Kosmos-2420, a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. According to cosmodrome officials, “the lift-off of the spacecraft, initially planned for mid-May, was re-scheduled for n...

The small (~30 metre) asteroid 2006 HX57 which was discovered by LINEAR on 30 April is calculated to pass the Earth by about 3.0 lunar distances on May 6th, 2006. At magnitude 16 it is beyond the range of most amateur scopes. e = 0.497174991343023 i = 0.18215496...

This Friday, May 5, astronomers from the University of Maryland, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the California Institute of Technology will dedicate the world's most powerful millimetre-wave-length radio telescope. Formed...

The asteroid, 2006 HZ51, is the biggest object currently on NASA-JPL's list of objects that might strike the Earth someday, with an estimated diameter of 782 meters . It is the object that has the nearest-term possible Earth-impact date of anything on the list: just over two years away, on th...

Using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, Australian astronomers have found a predicted "companion" star left behind when its partner exploded as a very unusual supernova. The presence of the companion explains why the supernova, which started off looking like one kind of exploding sta...

This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows one quarter of crater Hopmann - an impact structure...

Very good site. Thanks for author! *-- Edited by Blobrana at 02:13, 2006-05-03*

Very good site. Thanks for author! -- Edited by Blobrana at 02:13, 2006-05-03

The sounding rocket Maxus 7 was successfully launched from the Swedish Space Corporation’s (SSC) launch facility at Esrange Space Centre this morning at 06:16 UT and reached an apogee of 702 km which enabled 12 minutes of microgravity. The payload consists of five individual experim...