Kepler-421b: Transiting Exoplanet with Longest Known Year Astronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year. Kepler-421b circles its star once every 704 days. In comparison, Mars orbits our Sun once every 687 days. Most of the 1,800-plus exoplanets discovered to d...
The Antares telescope takes its first look at the heavens
The first detection line of the Antares neutrino telescope, lying under 2,500 meters of water, was connected by Ifremer's remotely operated robot Victor 6000 to the onshore station at La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var) on Thursday 2 March at 12:11...
Do we live in a 2-D hologram? A unique experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer has started collecting data that will answer some mind-bending questions about our universe - including whether we live in a hologram. Much like charact...
Title: VLBI for Gravity Probe B. VI. The Orbit of IM Pegasi and the Location of the Source of Radio Emission Authors: R. R. Ransom, N. Bartel, M. F. Bietenholz, D. E. Lebach, J.-F. Lestrade, M. I. Ratner, I. I. Shapiro We present a physical interpretation for the locations of the sources of radio emissi...
Title: SN 2010lp---a Type Ia supernova from a violent merger of two carbon--oxygen White Dwarfs Author: M. Kromer, R. Pakmor, S. Taubenberger, G. Pignata, M. Fink, F.K. Roepke, I.R. Seitenzahl, S.A. Sim, W. Hillebrandt SN 2010lp is a subluminous Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) with slowly-evolving lig...
MagLab Scientist Uncovers Red Planet's Climate History in Unique Meteorite Was Mars, now a cold, dry place, once a warm, wet planet that sustained life? And if so, how long has it been cold and dry? Research underway at the MagLab may one day answer those questions - and perhaps even help pave the way fo...
Title: The Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation (The Leavitt Law) at Mid-Infrared Wavelengths: III. Cepheids in NGC 6822 Authors: Barry F. Madore, Jane Rigby, Wendy L. Freedman, S. E. Persson, Laura Sturch, Violet Mager We present the first application of mid-infrared Period-Luminosity relat...
Peru Astronomical Lab: Archaeological Site Dating Back 4,000 Years Is Discovered in Licurnique Archeologists in South America have made an astounding new discovery in the northern region of Peru, where they have found remnants of an ancient astronomical laboratory. The finding, located in the...
Central China unearths large neolithic site Archaeologists in central China's Henan province have excavated a large neolithic settlement complete with moats and a cemetery. The Shanggangyang Site covers an area of 120,000 square meters and sits along a river in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan, dat...
Hadrian's Wall will be lit from end to end later by a team of 500 volunteers holding flaming torches. The 135km Roman wall, which spans the width of northern England, is being illuminated for British Tourism Week. The volunteers, each holding a gas-powered beacon, will stand at 250m intervals. [url...
Title: Discovery of a new Galactic bona fide luminous blue variable with Spitzer Author: V.V. Gvaramadze, A.Y. Kniazev, L.N. Berdnikov, N. Langer, E.K. Grebel, J.M. Bestenlehner We report the discovery of a circular mid-infrared shell around the emission-line star Wray 16-137 using archival d...
NGC 7083 (also ESO 107-36, IRAS 21318-6407 and PGC 67023) is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located 143 million light-years away in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector...
NGC 6589 (also IC 4690 and ESO 590-N14) is a magnitude +12.6 reflection nebula located in the constellation Sagittarius. The nebula was discovered by American astronomer Truman Henry Safford using a 46.99 cm (18.5-inch) Alvan Clark & Sons refractor at Dearborn Observatory, at 3400 S. Cottag...
Title: A close-pair binary in a distant triple supermassive black-hole system Author: R. P. Deane (1,2), Z. Paragi (3), M. J. Jarvis (4,5), M. Coriat (1,2), G. Bernardi (2,6,7), R. P. Fender (4), S. Frey (8), I. Heywood (9,6), H.-R. Klöckner (10), K. Grainge (11), C. Rumsey (12), ((1) University of C...
Meteorieten gestolen uit museum en sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh The burglars have looted several meteorites, including the famous Serooskerken meteorite, which fell in 1925 on that town in Zeeland. Read more
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