NASA's SDO Observes 'Cinco de Mayo' Solar Flare The sun emitted a significant solar flare, peaking at 6:11 p.m. EDT on May 5, 2015. NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation f...
UAE to Explore Mars' Atmosphere With Probe Named 'Hope' The United Arab Emirates says its planned 2020 mission to Mars will study the planet's atmosphere and will be appropriately named "Hope." Read more
10 inch Grubb Refractor July 28th marks the 125th anniversary of the erection of the 10-inch Grubb refracting telescope at the Armagh Observatory. The refractor was commissioned from Howard Grubb of Dublin. Following some adjustments to the telescope, including the addition of a rack and pinion...
New isotope molecule may add to Venus greenhouse effect Planetary scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have tracked down a rare molecule in the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus. The molecule, an exotic form of carbon dioxide, could affect the way the greenhouse mechanism works on Venus. The di...
Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabndranatha Thakura (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read more In Our Time With Melvyn Br...
Wide-eyed Proba-V will track global vegetation daily The small but powerful camera of ESA's Proba-V mission can fit on a single laboratory table for testing. But when it reaches orbit, this compact sensor will deliver a daily overview of virtually all vegetation growth across Earth. Daily global...
Oscar Holderer (November 4, 1919 - May 5, 2015) was an engineer who worked with Wernher von Braun in the United States and Germany beforehand. Read more
The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. It was signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Soviet High Command, French representative signing as witness on 7 May, and signed again by representati...
Newly found microbe is close relative of complex life A newly discovered life form could help resolve one of the most contentious conundrums in modern biology. All organisms on Earth are classified as either prokaryotes, which have simple cells, or eukaryotes, which have larger, more complex cel...
The 160 - 360 metre wide asteroid 2005 SB71 will make a close pass (66.2 LD, 0.1701 AU) travelling at 11.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th May 2015 @ 00:53 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) announces the passing of a significant technical milestone in the development of its Dragon spacecraft with the successful arc jet testing of PICA-X high performance heat shield material. Subjected to temperatures as high as 1850 degrees Celsius (...
Replica Pharos Lighthouse plans approved The feat of ancient engineering, which is also known as the Lighthouse of Alexandria, was completed around 280BC, and is estimated to have been between 110m and 130m high. The plan is to rebuild the lighthouse a few metres away from where it once stood in the c...
This is a real-time ultraviolet image of the Sun that measures a mid-temperature region of the Sun in a transition zone between the surface and the corona (the Sun's atmosphere).
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