The European Commission (EC), the executive arm of the European Union (EU), announced that it will launch today, GEANT2, the high-speed version of Europe' s world-leading networking infrastructure for scientists and students.
In a press release, the EC said from Tuesday onwards, G...
DC-3 Dreams, SP announces a new FREE tool for planning observing sessions for astro-imaging and science.
ACP Planner™ (Patent Pending) gives you a visual way to create a night's MULTI-TARGET observing plan WITHIN Starry Night Pro 5 or TheSky 6.
This way of planning is a quantum leap beyond ot...
Nik multimedia, Inc. today announces nik Sharpener Pro™ 2.0 is now available through the nik multimedia retail Web site (www.nikmultimedia.com) and specialty camera stores.
nik Sharpener Pro 2.0 provides the easiest way...
Spirit's left navigation camera acquired this image on Sol 493 of its mission from Gusev Crater at approximately 10:15:11 Mars local solar time.
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On June 12th, magnetic fields near sunspot 775 erupted twice, producing two long-duration C-class solar flares and, maybe, two coronal mass ejections (CME).
The CMEs (If they exist) would likely reach Earth tomorrow and spark high-latitude auroras.
Today, NASA launched an Internet resource page highlighting the agency’s diverse hurricane research. The site opens just in time for the 2005 Atlantic Ocean hurricane season, which officially runs from June 1 through November 30. The information is available on the Web, at:
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Regulus , the brightest star in the constellation Leo, is near the waxing crescent moon tonight.
It is located below and slightly to the left of the moon.
It may be difficult to pick out the star against the moonlight but binoculars will easily show it.
Regulus is on th...
Nova AQL 05
A possible nova has been reported in Aquila.
The nova has an amplitude grater than 10 magnitudes.
Position(2000): RA = 19:05:12.5 Dec = +05:14:12.0 +/- 0.4".
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No sudden, sharp boundary marks the passage of day into night in this gorgeous view of ocean and clouds over our fair planet Earth. Instead, the shadow line or terminator is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight.
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The Scout programming language, developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in California, US, enables scientists to run complex calculations on a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) instead of its central processing unit (CPU), and see the results rendered almost insta...
On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars.
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These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show Coprates Chasma, a major trough in the Valles Marineris canyon system.
The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 449 with a ground resolution of approximately 48 metres p...
Hard drive builder Seagate will release a 2.5-inch notebook PC drive with 160GB of capacity in the first quarter of next year, the company has announced at a news conference in Tokyo.
The extra storage for the 160GB drive is achieved through a new technology called perpendicular recording[...
