Joseph Lade Pawsey (14 May 1908 - 30 November 1962) was an Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. At the end of World War II he became a pioneer of the new science of radio astronomy, his interest being stirred by the discovery of radio waves from the Galaxy and by reports of intens...
The International Astronomical Union has approved the name Kerberos for the Plutonian moon formerly known as P4, and Styx for P5. Vulcan, a popular favorite, was passed up in part because the name has already been used in astronomy, to refer to a hypothetical planet inside Mercury's orbit. [url=ht...
Suren Jayasuriya, a graduate student in the lab of Alyosha Molnar, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is developing a 3-D camera with specially designed image sensors that could lead to previously unimagined applications, from smart cars to medical imaging to visuall...
Title: The Flare-ona of EK Draconis Author: Thomas R. Ayres EK Draconis (HD 129333: G1.5 V) is a well-known young (50 Myr) solar analog. In 2012, Hubble Space Telescope returned to EK Dra to follow up a far-ultraviolet (FUV) SNAPshot visit by Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) two years earlier. The...
NGC 2302 (also NGC 2299 and OCL 554) is a magnitude +8.9 open cluster located 3000 light years away in the constellation Monoceros. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector on the 4th March 1785. The cluster was red...
Title: The Five Planets in the Kepler-296 Binary System All Orbit the Primary: A Statistical and Analytical Analysis Author: Thomas Barclay, Elisa V. Quintana, Fred C. Adams, David R. Ciardi, Daniel Huber, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Benjamin T. Montet, Douglas Caldwell Kepler-296 is a binary star...
Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. But according to planetary sc...
Title: Confirming HD 23478 as a new magnetic B star hosting an H alpha-bright centrifugal magnetosphere Author: James Sikora, Gregg Wade, David Bohlender, Coralie Neiner, Mary Oksala, Matt Shultz, David Cohen, Asif ud-Doula, Jason Grunhut, Dmitry Monin, Stan Owocki, Véronique Petit, Thomas R...
Snowdonia park in 'dark sky' status bid for stargazer Parts of Snowdonia could be plunged into darkness in a bid to reduce light pollution in the national park. And the move could create a cash boost for area the with stargazers from across the globe flocking to North Wales to enjoy a clear view of the co...
The 31 - 69 metre wide asteroid 2015 HS1 will make a close pass (27.2 LD, 0.0698 AU) travelling at 7.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th May 2015 @ 17:43 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2015 JR will make a close pass (4.0 LD, 0.0103 AU) travelling at 10.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th May 2015 @ 22:06 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Sentinel-6a to measure ocean height The sixth Sentinel in Europe's ambitious new multi-billion-euro Earth-observation project has been contracted from industry. Sentinel-6a will measure changes in the height of the oceans - a key indicator for understanding weather and climate. Read more
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