A spectacular bridge of stars and gas stretches for nearly 250,000 light-years and joins this famous peculiar pair of galaxies catalogued as Arp 295.
The cosmic bridge between the galaxies and the long tail extending below and right of picture centre are strong evidence that these two im...
NASA Media Teleconference Announces Black Hole Discovery.
Surprising results showing the nurturing ability of massive black holes will be revealed at 17:00 GMT, Thursday, October 13, during a media teleconference.
The results are based on Chandra observations of the [url=http...
Trojan pairs in the HD 128311 and HD 82943 planetary systems?Authors: Krzysztof Gozdziewski, Maciej Konacki Two nearby stars, HD 128311 and HD 82943, are believed to host pairs of Jupiter-like planets involved in a strong first order 2:1 mean motion resonance. Re...
Vandenberg rehearses first Delta 4 rocket launch
Boeing's Delta 4 rocket launch team at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base today practiced countdown procedures during a real-life rehearsal in preparation for the next-generation booster's maiden West Coast lift-off in Augus...
From Christian Science Monitor:
"In addition, they discovered that the largest known asteroid, Ceres, is probably a failed planet. It is not just a glob of rock. It is almost perfectly round, suggesting that it has a rocky core separated from an outer crust - like Earth. Only Jupiter's disrupti...
Salvadoran authorities activated emergency plans on Tuesday as a western volcano, Ilamatepec ,continued to spew gas and vapour in what experts said was a "significant increase" in activity.
The renewed energy was first detected on Saturday, when experts from the National Service o...
South Africa hopes to launch its second satellite before the end of next year according to the Science and Technology Minister Mosibudi Mangena.
The ministry is initiating a three-year integrated capacity building and satellite development project.
The 26 million rand joint effort betw...
On Monday, October 03, an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses the Iberian Peninsula and stretches across the African continent.
The moon will glide in front of the sun, producing a solar eclipse visible from Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
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Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team.
Their goal is to provide an up-to-date and completely reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.
[url=http://www.mem...
The Planetary Society (home of SETI) is planning to launch the first Solar Sail Spacecraft, Cosmos 1, later this month.
The exact launch date is scheduled to be announced on Monday, May 9.
This event represents one of the first privately-funded space missions with the objective of pure...
The US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Security Agency (NSA) and US, Naval Research Laboratory has announced the declassification of the Cold War POPPY electronic intelligence (ELINT) reconnaissance program. NRO Deputy Director Dennis Fitzgerald ho...
Cosmonaut Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov, who in 1974 commanded an unsuccessful mission to the Salyut 3 space station, died on Thursday, September 29, due to complications from an unspecified surgery. He was 63.
Sarafanov flew Soyuz 15 with flight engineer Lev Demin, who passed away in 1988....
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