NASA's Orion Spacecraft Set to Roll out to Launch Pad for its First Flight NASA's Orion spacecraft is set to roll out of the Launch Abort System Facility (LASF) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its launch pad at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 on Monday Nov...
'Ghostly presence' created in lab Feelings of a ghostly presence - the sense that someone is close-by when no-one is there - lie in the mind, a study has concluded. Scientists say that they have identified the parts of the brain that are responsible for generating these spooky sensations. Read more
Title: Chandra observation of the relativistic binary J1906+0746 Authors: O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov PSR J1906+0746 is a 112-kyr-old radio pulsar in a tight relativistic binary with a compact high-mass companion, at the distance of about 5 kpc. We observed this unique system with the Chandra AC...
Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans' They may be yellowed and worn but these ancient teeth and jaw fragment have something very revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe. The specimens, unearthed in Italy and the UK, have just been confirmed as the earliest known remains of...
Title: Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A Probe of Extragalactic Background Light from Reionisation Authors: Asantha Cooray, James J. Bock, Mitsunobu Kawada, Brian Keating, Andrew Lange, Dae-Hee Lee, Louis Levenson, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, Tom Renbarger, , Ian Sul...
Title: A Spitzer Survey of Protoplanetary Disk Dust in the Young Serpens Cloud: How do Dust Characteristics Evolve with Time? Authors: Isa Oliveira, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Bruno Merin, Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Fred Lahuis, Vincent C. Geers, Jes K. Jorgensen, Johan Olofsson, Jean-Charles Augereau...
NGC 827 (also UGC 1640, IRAS 02062+0744 and PGC 8196) is a magnitude +13.0 spiral galaxy located about 155 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet,...
The 70 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2014 TJ33 will make a close pass (15.7 lunar distances, 0.0403 AU) travelling at 10.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November 2014 @ 10:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
The 16 - 35 metre wide asteroid 2014 US56 will make a close pass (25.0 lunar distances, 0.0643 AU) travelling at 4.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November 2014 @ 13:48 UT ±00:05. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 250 - 570 metre wide asteroid 2014 MQ67 will make a close pass (50.3 lunar distances, 0.1292 AU) travelling at 10.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November 2014 @ 14:16 UT ±02:27. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
The 15 - 33 metre wide asteroid 2014 UT56 will make a close pass (15.2 lunar distances, 0.0392 AU) travelling at 9.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November 2014 @ 14:30 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 77 - 170 metre wide asteroid 2014 UV115 will make a close pass (21.6 lunar distances, 0.0555 AU) travelling at 21.08 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th November 2014 @ 18:54 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system. The infrared observatory revealed that the Jupiter-like gas giant planet circling very close to its sun is always as hot as fire on one side, and potentially as cold...
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