Title: HATS-36b and 24 other transiting/eclipsing systems from the HATSouth - K2 Campaign 7 program Author: D. Bayliss, J. D. Hartman, G. Zhou, G. A. Bakos, A. Vanderburg, J. Bento, L. Mancini, S. Ciceri, R. Brahm, A. Jordán, N. Espinoza, M. Rabus, T. G. Tan, K. Penev, W. Bhatti, M. de Val-Borro, V. Su...
Title: Stellar Populations in the Outer Halo of the Massive Elliptical M49 Authors: Chris Mihos, Paul Harding, Craig Rudick, John Feldmeier We use deep surface photometry of the giant elliptical M49 (NGC 4472), obtained as part of our survey for diffuse light in the Virgo Cluster, to study the stel...
NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our understanding of the origins and destinies of stars and g...
China successfully tests near-space flight of largest solar drone China has successfully tested near-space flight of its largest solar drone. With a wingspan of 45 meters, the solar-powered drone is capable of flying at an altitude of 20 to 30 kilometers, and cruising at a speed of 150 to 200 km per h...
China's 1st astronaut details projects for orbital station, manned lunar visit China will launch at least four manned missions with Shenzhou spacecraft before the end of 2022 to build a space station, according to a senior space official. Yang Liwei, deputy head of the China Manned Space Agency an...
Call for canine blood donors on World Blood Donor Day This Wednesday 14 June marks the World Health Organization's Blood Donor Day, providing an opportunity to recognise the valuable gift of blood donation, including for our pets. As for humans, blood transfusions are of vital importance for the s...
A 1976 study published in the journal Nature showed that strange Xenon, which is made in supernova explosions, is present within the composition of the Sun. Those findings by the UMR and Grambling team were largely dismissed. Now, in the March 31 2005 issue of Nature, a Japanese and French team repor...
Military ship that sank century ago won't be pulled from sea A U.S. Coast Guard ship that first set out to sea during the Spanish-American War and sank off the coast of Southern California 100 years ago won't be moved anytime soon, officials said Tuesday. Strong currents and an abundance of sediment w...
Suzaku Shows Clearest Picture Yet Of Perseus Galaxy Cluster X-ray observations made by the Suzaku observatory provide the clearest picture to date of the size, mass and chemical content of a nearby cluster of galaxies. The study also provides the first direct evidence that million-degree gas cl...
The Clava cairn is a type of Bronze Age circular chamber tomb cairn, named after the group of 3 cairns at Balnuaran of Clava, to the east of Inverness in Scotland. Read more Latitude: 57°28'20.65"N, Longitude: 4° 4'26.60"...
Title: GALEX J184559.8-413827: a new extreme helium star identified using SALT Author: C. Simon Jeffery A high-resolution spectrum of the helium-rich 'hot subdwarf' GALEX J184559.8-413827 (J1845-4138) obtained with SALT HRS demonstrates it to be the first extreme helium (EHe) star to be disc...
The Seti WOW signal6EQUJ5On August 15, 1977., SETI received a 1 shot signal that many have described as a WOW signal. It involved a short duration high energy pulse. Each of the first 50 columns of the computer printout shows the successive values of intensity (or power) received from the Big Ear radi...
Title: The Orbital Period of Scorpius X-1 Authors: Robert I. Hynes, Christopher T. Britt (Louisiana State University) The orbital period of Sco X-1 was first identified by Gottlieb et al. (1975). While this has been confirmed on multiple occasions, this work, based on nearly a century of photogra...