Sunspot 798 is now rotating into view over the eastern limb. It has now blasted out two major solar flares: X17-category blast on Sept 7th (1740 UT)...
More than 800,000 people have been moved from their homes in eastern China as Typhoon Khanun slams into the coast.
The storm is expected to lash central and southern areas of Zhejiang province before heading towards Shanghai city.
More than 35,000 ships and boats have also returned t...
The bright light seen in the sky over Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, on Wednesday night may have been space junk.
Susan Martin from Esk Valley was at Aropaoanui when she saw what looked like a distress flare between 6.30 and 6.45pm. A woman from her work told her she had heard on the radio that NASA had bro...
A huge chunk of ice that crashed through the roof of a home in Fontana, California, US, is at the centre of a US Federal Aviation Administration investigation on Monday.
The ice does not appear to be of the "blue ice" variety that usually falls from airplane toilets.
The origin of the ice appeare...
Tropical Storm Ophelia gathered strength and size off the Atlantic Coast of Florida for several days. During this time, it brought winds and rain over a growing area including the Florida coast, though the storm’s centre remained offshore.
By September 8, it briefly reached hurrican...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 11:26:03 (UTC) on Friday, September 9, 2005 located 45 km West Southwest of San Juan, Argentina. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 86 km.
Location 31.638°S, 68.999°W
An ILS Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage will launch the Anik F1R communications spacecraft for the Canadian operator Telesat, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on September 8th at 21:53 GMT.
The EADS Astrium-built satellite will be used for telecommunications, TV br...
On the evening of Sept. 1, the two planets, Venus and Jupiter, will come very close together low in the western evening sky; the two planets will be within just 1.5 degrees of each other.
Venus has been low in the evenin...
Title: GQ Lupi and its common proper motion companion
Authors: M.Mugrauer, R. Neuhaeuser
Recently, Neuhaeuser et al. (2005) presented evidence for a sub-stellar, common proper motion companion to GQ Lupi. With two theoretical mass estimates, both below the Deut...
Destructive comets, like the one many people say slammed into the Tunguska region of Siberia last century, are much rarer than we think, new research finds.
Australian scientist Dr Paul Francis of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Mount Stromlo, estimates small comets tha...
At 1740 UT on September 7th, satellites detected a major X17-class solar flare emerging from the sun's eastern limb.
The source of the explosion was perhaps from the old sunspot 798, which sparked strong auroras in August.
Biblis Patera
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show the Biblis Patera volcano, located in the western part of the Tharsis rise[url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blobrana/database/mars.ht...
A Magnitude 14.8 supernova 2005dv, was discovered on 4th of September by the Cortina Astronomical Association (CROSS), in the galaxy NGC 5283 .
It is located 8" west of the centre of the galaxy.
The Type as yet is unknown.
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Typhoon Nabi hit south-western Japan with torrential rains and high winds on Monday, cutting power supplies and disrupting transport and oil refineries.
The large scale of the storm and the low speed at which it was moving mean it would affect Japan for a relatively long time, possibly causing ex...
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