* Astronomy

Keck Observatory is inviting the public to eavesdrop on the Deep Impact observing event on Sunday, July 3rd from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Hualalai Learning Theatre. This will be the first time that the public will be able to "eavesdrop" on actual observations as they come in from Deep Impact, a NASA...

A magnitude 15.5 Supernova 2005ch, (as yet type unknown) was discovered on June 8th 2005 by the ROTSE collaboration . It is located 0".9...

Three very different worlds crowd the frame in this unique view from the Cassini spacecraft[img]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/moons/images/P...

Variations in the density of hot plasma right after the big bang may have been frozen in the shape and distribution of galaxies that we see today. This is the mad idea proposed by Nils Basse, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He stumbled upon the striking similarity of the pattern p...

Silicon Tetrafluoride on Io Authors: Laura Schaefer, Bruce Fegley Jr Silicon tetrafluoride (SiF4) is observed in terrestrial volcanic gases and is predicted to be the major F - bearing species in low temperature volcanic gases on Io. SiF4 gas is also a pot...

A METEOR 1-7 Satellite launched on 20 Jan 1971 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome Russia, will re-enter the Earths atmosphere on 16 JUN 2005 @ 22:16 UTC ± 3 days The ground track plot is limited to ± 6 hour...

This week, Venus shares the evening sky with the young crescent Moon. Expand Credit &...

A giant methane-spewing volcano has been spotted in close-up images of Saturn's giant moon Titan[img]http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/mo...

Linux for Astronomy includes over 3Gb of Astronomical software precompiled for the Linux (x86) operating system. Applications include a wealth of general purpose image and signal processing tools, as well as the state-of-the-art algorithms in use at observatories and universities...

The Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov has signed a resolution on the launch of spacecraft belonging to Russia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia from the Russian space centre Baikonur. The vehicles to take off from Baikonur are AKS-1 and AKS-2 (Russia), EgyptSat-1 ([...

A team of designers and specialists who created an optical-electronic space monitoring system called Okno (Window) has been awarded the State Prize in the field of science and technology for 2004. The laureates include the chief of the Space Troops staff, Major-General Alexander Kvas...

UK and Ireland weather outlook for tonight. (moonless nite) www.metcheck.com

(Digital E. Coli) A software program, called AgentCell, will simulate organisms at the molecular, single-cell and colony levels. The program will soon be available, open sourced under a BSD license. "With AgentCell we can simulate the behaviour of entire populations of cells...

If comets exist around other stars, astronomers should be able to see them directly, says Michael Jura, astronomer at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). All they need to do is use the same observatories that promise to reveal Earth-size extrasolar planets. Astronomers have dis...

The Amiga OS emulator AIAB (amiga in a box) package has been updated. It requires a Kickstart 3.0/3.1 ROM a Workbench 3.0/3.1 ADF and a reasonably high-spec PC. http://www.amigainabox.co.uk/