India and the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN, have signed a Statement of Intent under which the existing scientific and technical cooperation between India and Nuclear Centre would be further extended.
The Statement of Intent was sig...
Newt is a Newtonian telescope design program.
It ray traces the telescope checking for vignetting, optimizes diagonal size, calculates baffle size and position, and a lot more.
It allows you to easily and quickly change any of the design parameters of the telescope and to see the resul...
Voyager 4
“We are pleased to announce that Southern Stars Systems and the SkyChart III product line have been acquired by Carina Software and Mathis Instruments of Danville, California, USA. All of SkyChart III's features and capabilities are being merged into Carin...
Catch the last of comet C/2003 T4 ( LINEAR ) (at least for lower powered telescopes in the southern hemisphere).
The brightness evolution had been slower than a typical comet since its discovery until the perihelion passage in early April.
Although it kept bright as 8 magnitu...
"The Energia space-rocket corporation's Space Regatta consortium has teamed up with the consolidated nuclear-research institute in Dubna and the Skobeltsyn R&D institute of nuclear physics to develop a satellite that would light up the s...
A hot air balloon managed to reach The North Pole for the first time in the history of Arctic exploration on Monday.
The `Holy Russia` (Svyataya Rus) crew named their expedition "A Flight to the Summit of the Globe". It took the men 38 days to cover 980 km starting from Cape Arktichesk...
There are at least 3 giant explosion on the air from disintergrated Meteors:
1. Tunguska, Siberia, Russia 1908
2. Rio Curaca River, Brazil 1930
Rio Curaca, Brazil
3. British Guyana, 1935
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Astronomers using the ESA's XMM-Newton telescope has discovered that observing Jupiter's atmosphere may actually give them an insight in to solar activity on the far side of the Sun.
It was discovered that Jupiter's x-ray glow is due to x-ray photons from the Sun being reflected back o...
A portion of an exposure of bedrock dubbed "Larry's Outcrop" shows little layering in this view, in contrast to nearby outcrops called "Methuselah" and "Jibsheet[img]http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050524a/SS13_Larrys_FalseColor-...
There is a failed project to deploy space mirror by Russian cosmonaut.
Space Mirror
If NASA / International mission want to establish giant mirror in the space, what is the benefit and side effect of the g...
The Formerly commercial microgolded editor is now available as free download. Instead of asking users to pay for it, it is released as sponsored software and contains offline advertising.
About microgolded: microgolded is a small editor. It provides basic editing features, such as undo-redo...
I was wondering if there had been any commercial or pd software that tackles space exploration(ie star charts, planetary info, pics) available on the classic amiga? If there was, I hope it's free to download. ;-)
-Gilbert
PSR B0628-28 is a radio pulsar which was first detected in the X-ray band by ROSAT and then later observed with Chandra and XMM-Newton.
The Chandra observation yielded an X-ray luminosity two orders of magnitude
higher than what is expected for spin-powered pulsars, also there were no...
