A large green, magnitude -4, fireball occurring over Bellefontaine, Ohio, heading in an ENE to NE direction.
The event occurred on the evening of September 21 0030 UT (8:30pm EDT, 20th).
iTunes 5.0.1 features a new even more powerful instant search, including the new Search Bar which helps you find what you are looking for in iTunes or from among 2 million songs on the Music Store, folders for organizing playlists, and new Parental Controls for music, music sharing and podcasts. iTu...
Smithsonian astronomer T.K. Sridharan (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics) and colleagues have photographed a pair of newborn stellar twins in infrared light, which penetrates the dust. And these stars are big; weighing several times the mass of the Sun.
Sridharan's images als...
AutoPatcher XP September 2005 has been released.
AutoPatcher XP is an installation package, based on the all-new AutoPatcher 5.1, designed to get your Windows system up to date quick and easily for Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003.
This release was made with Windows XP SP2 English in...
NASA has announced a media teleconference for Mars Discoveries at a listen-and-logon news briefing at 17:00 GMT Tuesday, September 20th.
The Mars Global Survey orbiter has observed some interesting changes on Mars, and researchers will announce and discuss the discoveries.
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SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha was released last week.
Users of the Mozilla Suite or Netscape should check it out - it contains numerous new features and bugfixes when compared to Mozilla 1.7, but offers the same basic look and feel. There are a few screenshots on the [url=http://weblogs.mo...
China has launched the 22nd return experimental satellite onto the orbit with a Long March-2IV rocket carrier from the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center, in the northwest, today.
The satellite has entered the preset orbit and is now operating normally, according to the Xian Satellit...
An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and, given that it has to contend with the gravitation...
A north Shropshire man has told of his amazement at seeing a "massive glowing object moving through the sky".
Steve Powell, 49, who lives near Prees Green, UK, saw what he believes was a huge meteor last night at around 11.45pm.
He described the object as a big orange ball, about the size...
The Full Moon on Saturday, September 17th, 22:01 GMT, is known as the Harvest Moon.
This full Moon is no ordinary full moon; it behaves in a special way. Throughout the year the Moon rises, on average, about 50 minutes later each day. But near the autumnal equinox on September 22nd, the day-to-day...
The Indian Space Research Organization has put "on hold" plans to jointly develop and market two-ton class communication satellites with Boeing Satellite Systems following a change in business plans of the American firm, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said today.
"They (Boeing) are not d...
Giant stars with planets often have smaller amounts of heavy elements than the Sun, say astronomers in the United States and Germany. This trend is surprising: it is opposite the one seen in planet-bearing main-sequence stars and suggests stars more massive than the Sun may give birth to planets in...
