AMUNDSEN-SCOTT STATION, Antarctica - Anywhere on Earth this would be a big telescope, as high as a seven-story building, with a main mirror measuring 32 1/2 feet across. But here at the South Pole, it seems especially large, looming over a barren plain of ice that gets colder than anywhere else on th...
Valentin Vasiliyevich Bondarenko (16 February 1937 - 23 March 1961) was a Soviet fighter pilot who trained to become a cosmonaut. Cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko died after a fire in a high-oxygen isolation chamber on March 23, 1961 Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
The world's fifth largest reserves of gold and copper have been discovered in Chaghi area in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province.
According to the Director General of Provincial Department of Mineralogy, Maqbool Ahmed, two Canadian and Chilean multinational companies were granted l...
Sun 15.02.14: Photo mosaic of Sunspots 11977, 11980, 11976, 11974 Sun 15.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor Sun 15.02.14: Single image capture of the western limb
First Spy Satellites: "Corona Project Overview" 1995 National Reconnaissance Office The Corona satellites were designated KH-1, KH-2, KH-3, KH-4, KH-4A and KH-4B. KH stood for "Key Hole" or "Keyhole"...
300,000-Year-Old Hearth Found in the Qesem Cave Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question - one which is central to the subject of the rise of human culture - is still hotly debated....
Title: HII galaxies in 4D Author: Eduardo Telles (Observatorio Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) HII galaxies are clumpy and their gas kinematics can be mapped to show the global turbulent motions and the effect of massive star evolution. The distribution of their physical conditions is homogen...
Title: Discovery of a magnetic field in the B pulsating system HD 1976 Author: C. Neiner, A. Tkachenko, the MiMeS collaboration The presence of a magnetic field can have a strong impact on the evolution of a binary star. However, only a dozen of magnetic OB binaries are known as of today and available t...
Turkey's satellite operator Turksat said on Wednesday that it plans to launch two satellites, Turksat 4A and Turksat 5A, in six years, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported. Turksat has started work for a new satellite dubbed Turksat 4A which is planned to cover north and central Africa...
Stone Age harpoon found on Pacific island A 35,000-year-old piece of carved bone found on Timor, an island between Java and Papua New Guinea, indicates that complex hunting weapons were manufactured much earlier than previously thought in Australasia. A team led by archaeologist Sue O'Connor of...
Broxmouth fort secrets finally published Archaeologists have published the full analysis of a rescue dig carried out at an East Lothian hill fort in the 1970s. Broxmouth, east of Edinburgh, was excavated shortly before the site was destroyed by a cement works. The community lasted for almost 1,00...
Hubble Looks Into Terzan 7 Named after its discoverer, the French-Armenian astronomer Agop Terzan, this is the globular cluster Terzan 7 - a densely packed ball of stars bound together by gravity. It lies just over 75,000 light-years away from us on the other side of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It is a p...
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