A magnitude 16.7 supernova 2006B, was discovered on the 8th January, 2006, by Tim Puckett and G. Sostero, in the galaxy UGC 12538[img]http://static.flickr.com/37/84562186_13a7c098a3_o.gif[/...
A Mystery noise, suspected to have been a sonic boom, sent shock waves through communities along a stretch of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, coastline on the 6th January, 2006.
The sound, described as a loud, two-part bang above ground level, shook windows and tiles and prompted several calls to th...
A tiny patch of sky has been known for years to be the source of mysterious blasts of X-rays and gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers, led by Don Figer of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., US, has solved the mystery by identifying one of the most massive star clusters in t...
A 7-member non-official Chinese expedition team will participate in the South Pole expedition program this December as part of China's "7+2" program.
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A laboratory method developed for making and analysing cold, concentrated samples of a mysterious “floppy” molecule thought to be abundant only in outer space has revealed new data that help explain the molecule’s properties.
The advance, described in the January 6 2006 issue of Science, is...
A magnitude 15.6 supernova 2005na, was discovered on the 31 December 2005, by Jack Newton, D. Ceravolo, and Tim Puckett, in the galaxy UGC 3634 in the constellation Aries.
The supernova is located 1".6 west and 7".4 south of the centre of UGC 3634.
As yet the type is unknown
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The Cassini spacecrafts narrow-angle camera acquired this image on December 3, 2005, when it was approximately 2.5 million kilometres from Saturn.
The natural colour view shows Tethys in front of the globe of Saturn. The thin, dark line of the rings curves around the horizon at t...
A large impact crater has been found in the Mantokoski river in Utsjoki, northern Finland, approximately one kilometre from the closest settled area.
It is estimated that the impact occurred before Christmas.
The crater has an estimated diameter of 300 meters. Samples are being sent to the Un...
Asteroids can be eclipsed by other bodies in the Solar System, but no direct observation of an asteroid eclipse has been reported to date. Researchers describe a statistical method to predict an eclipse for an asteroid based on the analysis of the orbital elements covariance matrix. By propagatin...
Tropical Storm Zeta has formed in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on December 30th. This storm extends the record-breaking 2005 season to 27 storms, and it's the 6th storm named using the Greek alphabet.
The Atlantic hurricane season official ended on November 30th; however, more storms can form a...
The New Moon on December 31rd will be the second new moon this month.
There doesn't seem to be any special name for this second appearance.
When there are two full moons in a month, the second is sometimes referre...
A team of scientists has scanned the northern polar region of Earth with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The results show that the aurora borealis, or "norther...
Here are some events to watch out for in January 2006.
All times are UT.
Date:
1 Venus is 7° north of the Moon. 1000 UT
1 The Moon is at perigee. 2300UT
2 Neptune is 4° north of the Moon. 1200UT
4 Uranus is 2° north of the Moon. 0000UT
4 Earth is at perihelion. 1500UT
5...
DivX, Inc. today announced the launch of DivX 6, the next version of the company's patent-pending digital video technology. DivX 6 is a high performance multimedia technology that enables anyone to create full-featured, highly-compressed, interactive media files for playback on a range of Div...
