NASA Hosts News Conference, Interviews with Next Space Station Crew NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency), and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, who are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in late spring, will parti...
Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues To Past and Future Sea Level Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the...
It's official - the godwit makes the longest non-stop migratory flight in the world. A bird has been tracked from its Southern Hemisphere summertime home in New Zealand to its breeding ground in Alaska - and back again. The bar-tailed godwit, a female known as E7, landed in New Zealand this past weeke...
The 110 - 240 metre wide asteroid 2017 MC4 in the constellation Bootes will make a close pass (7.61 LD, 0.01955 AU) travelling at 20.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th July 2017 @ 02:03 UT ±00:01. Magnitude: 16.22 V See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Mo...
Using cellphones on aeroplanes could drown out faint radio signals from space, astronomers are warning.
They told a US agency considering lifting in-flight restrictions on cellphones that special devices should be installed on planes to limit damage to research if the regulations change.
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Title: An X-ray view of HD166734, a massive supergiant system Author: Yael Naze, Eric Gosset, Laurent Mahy, Elliot Ross Parkin (Univ. Liege, Belgium) The X-ray emission of the O+O binary HD166734 was monitored using Swift and XMM-Newton observatories, leading to the discovery of phase-locked v...
IC 1101 is a gigantic elliptical galaxy located in the super cluster Virgo. At an estimated 6 million light years across, it is 60 times bigger than our Milky Way Galaxy, making it the biggest galaxy ever discovered. Stars glow gold in IC 1101 and the galaxy appears in the shape of an oval, except the sid...
Title: PHL 6625: A Minor Merger-Associated QSO Behind NGC 247 Author: Lian Tao, Hua Feng, Yue Shen, Luis C. Ho, Junqiang Ge, Philip Kaaret, Shude Mao, Xin Liu PHL 6625 is a luminous quasi-stellar object (QSO) at z = 0.3954 located behind the nearby galaxy NGC 247 (z = 0.0005). Hubble Space Telescope (H...
Scientists have confirmed the second-ever case of a "virgin birth" in a shark, indicating once again that female sharks can reproduce without mating and raising the possibility that many female sharks have this incredible capacity. This compelling new study will be published today i...
PSR B1257+12B is an extrasolar planet (approximately 980 light-years away) in the constellation of Virgo (the Virgin). PSR B1257+12B was the first planet ever discovered outside the Solar system, and is the second object known to be orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12, which it circles at a distance...
Meteor's late night flash remains talk of small SA town after blaze of light seen Six days after a suspected meteor shook Streaky Bay and very briefly lit up parts of South Australia's night sky, the event remains the talk of the town. CCTV images of the spectacle show a bright light in the sky, lasting a...
Abell 33 (also PNG 238.0+34.8, PK 238+34.1, 2MASS J09390908-0248319 and ARO 65) is a magnitude +13.4 round planetary nebula located 2,500 light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. It lies very close to a foreground magnitude +7.0 star HD 83535. The star HD 83535 is responsible for the "diamo...
Ghana launches its first satellite into space Ghana has successfully launched its first satellite into space. GhanaSat-1, which was developed by students at All Nations University in Koforidua, was sent into orbit from the International Space Centre. Cheers erupted as 400 people, including th...
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