Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser
Microsoft has developed the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser. Version 2.0 of MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems.
MBSA runs on Windows Server 2003, Windows...
The Molniya-M Stage 3 Rocket Body launched on September 22 1982 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on the Kosmos 1409[img]http://photos17.flickr.com/22226895_dcc3ebc59e_o.gif[/im...
This weekend three planets will grace the western sky, forming a lovely trio easily visible shortly after sunset. Saturday evening in particular will find Saturn, Venus, and Mercury all within a 2 degree circle (about the size of your thumb held at arm's length) abo...
Sky for Friday 01 Jul 2005
The Sun is in Gemini. It rises at 03:46, transits the meridian at 12:14, and sets at 20:42. The length of the day is 16h 56m.
The Moon is in Aries with a phase of 21%, and is 24.8 days old. New Moon will occur in 4.8 days time. It rises at 00:24, transi...
A giant cloud in space is emitting regular flashes of laser light, astronomers have shown. The laser is powered by the spinning corpse of a dead star.
The discovery is the first direct proof that laser mechanisms operate in interstellar clouds, says Joel Weisberg of Carleton College in Northfi...
These images of the Safsaf Oasis in south-central Egypt show the surface of the desert and ancient water-carved rock hidden under the sand.
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A ball of flame was spotted in the Mayo sky (Ireland) at 1.46 a.m. on Sunday night/ Monday morning (26/27 June 2005)
The light, which was low down in the northern sky, was travelling in a north easterly direction and falling rapidly towards earth. The object may have been a meteorite or objec...
Fifty years ago, scientists Bernard Burke and Kenneth Franklin recorded radio signals from Jupiter.
"Our identification of Jupiter as a radio source is not based directly on reasoning, but more on luck" - Kenneth Franklin, scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
T...
Saturn, Venus and Mercury are going to be very close together on the evening of Friday, June 24th.
The 3 planets will span about 2 1/2 degrees.
And on Monday evening, June 27th, Mercury and Venus will be separated...
The telecommunications satellite Express AM-3 will be put in orbit by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur on June 24.
The launch has been postponed for a day, from June 23 to June 24, for technical reasons.
"It is a reserve date. The launch has been scheduled for 11.41 p.m. (Mosc...
A magnitude 15.9 supernova, 2005cr, was discovered on the 24th June 2005 by the University of Texas Supernovae Research Group , in the galaxy VPC 0198 in the constellation Virgo; (Located 3" east and 1" north of the nucleus) .
As yet the Type is unknown…
VPC (Virgo Photome...
The Submillimetre Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) has been asleep on orbit for the past 11 months.
SWAS operators placed it into hibernation after a highly successful 5.5-year mission highlighted by the discovery of a swarm of comets evaporating around an aging red giant star.
Now, t...
Russia has managed to quadruple the service life of a group of communications satellites, according to the information technologies and communications minister, Leonid Reiman.
This had now places Russia sixth in the world according to this index.
He also said that eight new satellites ha...