A Minotaur Rocket Body from the STP-R1 experimental satellite mission, launched from SLC-8 at the Vandenberg Air Force Base on the 23rd September, 2005, will...
DISCOVERY OF X-RAY EMISSION FROM SUPERNOVA 1970G WITH Chandra:
FILLING THE VOID BETWEEN SUPERNOVAE AND SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
Chandra observations of the oldest supernova, (SN 1970G), discovered using X-ray technologies, lead astronomers to think that we might be watchin...
Long-Cycle Dwarf Nova 1815+50 DV DRACONIS a possible WZ Sge-type cataclysmic variable is in outburst.
This is only the second recorded outburst of DV Dra; the first one was a super-outburst in June 1984, when the star reached photographic magnitude 15.1.
Just now, DV Draconis is faint...
A magnitude 14.7 supernova 2005kl was discovered on the 22nd November, 2005, by Col druscié Remote Observatory Supernovae Search (CROSS), in the seyfert galaxy NGC 4369, in the constellation Canes Venatici.
It is located 6"...
Title: A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040Authors: A. Sozzetti (1,2), S. Udry (3), S. Zucker (4), G. Torres (1), J. L. Beuzit (5), D. W. Latham (1), M. Mayor (3), T. Mazeh (4), D. Naef (6), C. Perrier (5), D. Queloz (3), J.-P. Sivan (7) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for A...
Mercury was a poor evening observing target at the beginning of this month, but you can fare a better chance at finding it in the morning as this month ends.
Right now, it is some 104 million kilometres away and wi...
Archaeologists in northern China have reportedly found one of the world's oldest observatories.
The remains, discovered near the city of Linfen in Shanxi province, are thought to be about 4,100 years old.
Wang Shouguan, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that the...
Typhoon Bolaven has taken a week to build to typhoon strength as it slowly crossed the Philippine Sea between November 13 and November 18, 2005. The storm had been a Category 1 typhoon for just over 24 hours when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captur...
A magnitude 16.3, Type IIn, supernova 2005kj, was discovered on the 17th November, 2005, by the Nearby Supernova Factory, in a galaxy in the constellation Hydra.
The supernova is located 82" east and 16".5 south of the centre the galaxy.
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Tropical Storm Gamma weakened Sunday into a tropical depression after it deluged the Central American coast. The storm struck Honduras at about 03:00 GMT on 20 November. Landfall was near 16.4 N, 85.8 W.
Forecasters said the slow-moving Gamma, the 24th named storm of an already record-breaking...
Cobar and district farming areas to the north (Australia) were shaken last Wednesday evening by an unusual blasting event which left residents wondering whether a small earth tremor or mine cave-in had occurred.
The sudden explosion at 6.34pm was followed immediately by a loud rumbl...
On Friday night, June 24, to Saturday, June 25, 2005, Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA to launch the Spaceway 2 and Telkom 2 spacecraft.
The launch window will open: from 09:03 pm to 09:36 p.m., Kourou time, on Friday, June 24, (02:03 am to 02:36 a.m., Paris time, on Sat...
FITdisk is a cataclysmic variable accretion disk simulator.
The program is a 3-D smoothed particle hydrodynamics code which simulates accretion disk formation and evolution in cataclysmic variables.
It provides an easy to use graphical user interface as well as 3-D interactive...
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