Scientists have found the trigger for making massive stars.
Astronomers know that the recipe for creating a star in a stellar nurseries includes hydrogen gas, dust and some amount of heat and gravity, but until now they did not know quite how all the parts come together or what triggers t...
"On 11/7/05 at approximately 3:28AM in northeastern Michigan, a fellow police officer and I witnessed a large meteor entering the atmosphere, initially exploding, lighting up the night sky then trail...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 19:29:54 (UTC) on Thursday, November 10, 2005 in South Eastern Siberia, Russia, 315 km West-Northwest of Nagornyy.
Location 57.445°N, 120.498°E
According to the Grasshopper website, Pagestream OS4 has been released!
PageStream5.0 for AmigaPPC works on any PPC system that OS4 will run on. It also requires at least 25MB of hard drive space and 20mb of memory available to PageStream.
Development is nearly complete and betas ar...
The Cassini spacecraft captured this grouping of three moons --Dione, Tethys and Pandora-- near the rings, on Sept. 22, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.2 million kilometres from Saturn.
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Inmarsat, the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications, today confirmed the successful transition of services to the new Inmarsat-4 satellite covering the Indian Ocean Region.
The I-4 satellite, which was launched on 11 March 2005, is now supporting all...
Russia will present a model of its new communications satellite, Europe-1, at the NATEXPO 2005 exhibition November 16-19 at Moscow's Crocus City centre.
Europe-1, which is being built by the Research and Production Association of Applied Mechanics (NPO PM), is a new-generation com...
A strong magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred at 10:48:21 (UTC) on Saturday, November 5, 2005, in the Bismarck Sea, 160 km SE of Lorengau, Manus Island.
Location 3.163°S, 148.133°E
This image shows in amazing detail a group of galaxies known as Robert's Quartet. The image is based on data collected with the FORS2 multi-mode instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.
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Title: Discovery of a nearby M9 dwarf: DENIS 0334-49Authors: N. Phan-Bao, M.S. Bessell, E.L. Martin, G. Simon, J. Guibert, T. Forveille, X. Delfosse, F. Crifo, N. Epchtein, P. Wood, F. Tajahmady
Researchers have reported the discovery of a new M9.0 dwarf star only 22.8 ligh...
Podcasts about the science and technology taking place at the W. M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
October 2005"Violence in the Young Universe"
Dr. Charles Steidel of the California Institute of Technology talks about an exciting time in our Universe, marked w...
Tropical Storm Alpha formed Saturday in the Caribbean, setting the record for the most named storms in an Atlantic hurricane season. This is the first time the U.S National Hurricane Centre has resorted to using the Greek alphabet since it began naming tropical cyclones in 1953.
The previous rec...
id Software has released the Linux client and server for Quake 4.
There's a FAQ page with installation instructions, notes, and download links.
zerowing.idsoftware.com
The August launch of the Monitor-E satellite will usher in Russia's remote Earth probing program, head of the Khrunichev Space Centre Alexander Medvedev said Thursday.
"The spacecraft only weighs 600kg. When folded, it resembles a cube a meter in diameter. It was built to tackle u...