11th February 2012 The newspaper News of Shenzhen in Chinese today announced, that in the Chinese province of Qinghai was a strong meteor shower, during which on the land fell a several dozen meteorites, the largest of which reached a weight of 12.5 kg. [url=http://www.sott.net/article/241934...
Osumi (or Ohsumi) is the name of the first Japanese artificial satellite put into orbit, named after the Osumi Province in the southern islands of Japan. It was launched on February 11, 1970 at 04:25 UTC with a Lambda 4S-5 rocket from Uchinoura Space Centre. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C...
STS-82 was the 22nd flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the 82nd mission of the Space Shuttle program. It was NASA's second mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope, during which Discovery's crew repaired and upgraded the telescope's scientific instruments, increasing its research c...
The Space Shuttle Mission 2007 gets today the famous Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), STS-99 as a FREE add-on. This mission is particularly interesting for all Flight Simulation fans as it allows you to perform the mission which made possible the high resolution topology sceneries avail...
NGC 2194 (also OCL 495, Collinder 87 and Melotte 43) is a magnitude +8.5 open cluster located 12,332 light years away in the constellation Orion. Most of the ~100 stars in the cluster are light blue in colour, but many bright, yellow stars are also present. The cluster was discovered by German-Britis...
NGC 1740 (also MCG -1-13-46, NPM1G -03.0222 and PGC 16589) is a magnitude +12.9 elliptical galaxy located 188 million light-years away in the constellation Orion. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Slou...
The 19 - 42 metre wide asteroid 2014 BT43 will make a close pass (9.8 lunar distances, 0.0252 AU), travelling at 11.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2014 @ 14:49 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Title: A Chandra Grating Observation of the Dusty Wolf-Rayet Star WR48a Author: Svetozar A. Zhekov, Marc Gagne, Stephen L. Skinner We present results of a Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observation of the carbon-rich Wolf-Rayet (WR) star WR48a. These are the first high-resolu...
The world's oldest temple, dating back around 12,000 years, is located on Göbekli Hill in Turkey's province of Sanliurfa.
The temple was discovered by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt.
Stone figures and columns were discovered at the excavation site, suggesting that hundreds of people h...
Sun 09.02.14: Another glorious day in the core Sun 09.02.14: Sunspots 11974, 11973, 11971 and 11975 Sun 09.02.14: The Western limb Sun 09.02.14: The eastern limb, with new sunspot 11976 Sun 09.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor
HMS Dreadnought was a battleship of the Royal Navy that revolutionised naval power. Her entry into service in 1906 represented such a marked advance in naval technology that her name came to be associated with an entire generation of battleships, the "dreadnoughts", as well as the clas...
The infamous Sixth game of the Deep Blue - Kasparov rematch, played in New York City on May 11, 1997 and starting at 3:00 p.m. EDT, was the last chess game in the rematch of 1997 of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov. (Deep Blue was further strengthened from the previous year's match with Kasparov and was un...
Edmond Halley FRS (8 November 1656 - 14 January 1742) was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John...
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