According to the Russian Space Agency, the Koronas-F scientific satellite finished its orbital mission on Tuesday, 17:34 GMT, and almost completely disintegrated after re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
"According to the agency's information centre, the fragments of the s...
There were reports of a big meteorite crossing south-western New South Wales and central Victoria, Australia, overnight. Victorians from Geelong to Mildura called police after apparently watching the object. Senior Victorian Constable Peter Bullock and his partner were patrolling the Calde...
This holographic image reveals big sunspots on the far side of the sun; it is probably remnants from the old sunspot 824, which crossed the Earth-facing side of the sun two weeks ago.
University of Chicago physicists have created a novel state of matter using nothing more than a container of loosely packed sand and a falling marble. They have found that the impacting marble produces a jet of sand grains that briefly behaves like a special type of dense fluid.
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A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting its wave nature, leaving the reflected light from the nearby planet to be observed in sp...
Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, says that it plans to launch the Astro-EII satellite carrying an X-ray telescope into Earth's orbit as early as next month to study black holes and distant galaxies.
The launch is planned between June 26 and July 15 but could be delay...
EF Pegasus has had an outburst on November 28th 2005.
EF Peg is a cataclysmic variable having a period of about 162.5 days. The dwarf nova varies with a large amplitude, between 10.7 magnitude down to 18th magnitude photographic.
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While searching for "killer asteroids" on Halloween night, University of Hawaii astronomer Fabrizio Bernardi found a new comet, the first discovered from Mauna Kea Observatories.
"While studying images I had taken with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, I noticed an object...
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season continues to set new records.
By November 29, the record for the number of named storms in a season hit 26 with the formation of Tropical Storm Epsilon.
This record shattered the previous mark of 21 set in 1933. Although hurricane season officially end...
Title: Chandra Detection of Local Warm-Hot Gas Toward Markarian 279Authors: Rik J. Williams (1), Smita Mathur (1), Fabrizio Nicastro (2,3) ((1) Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, (2) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, (3) Instituto de Astronom...
A major M-class flare in H-alpha near the central meridian sunspot #826 erupted twice today
No coronal mass ejections (CME) were produced so no auroras will be produced.
However, forecasters estimate a 15% chance of X-class solar flares being produced within the next 24 hours.
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An Atlas Centaur Rocket Body that was launched on the 9th February 1978 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station LC-36A on the Fltsatcom 1 mission is predicted to Re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 5th December 2005 @ 08:06 UTC ± 24 hours
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Today, the Texus-EML sounding rocket which is jointly funded by ESA and DLR was successfully launched from Esrange at 09.04 UT. The Brazilian rocket motor VSB-30[url=http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=15...
A magnitude: 11.5 V, Nova in the Large Magellanic Cloud was discovered on November 26th 2005, by William Liller, Vina del Mar, Chile.
Position (2000): R.A. = 05h 10m 32.68s Dec. = -69o 12' 35.7"
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered of the smallest known brown dwarf.
The brown dwarf contains only about 8 times the mass...
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