Garrett Erin Reisman (born February 10, 1968 ) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He was a backup crew member for Expedition 15 and joined Expedition 16 aboard the International Space Station for a short time before becoming a member of Expedition 17. He returned to Earth 14 June 2008...
Per Teodor Cleve (10 February 1840 - 18 June 1905) was a Swedish chemist and geologist. In 1874, he concluded that didymium was in fact two elements, now known as neodymium and praseodymium. He also discovered the elements holmium and thulium in 1879. The mineral cleveite was named in 1878 by the geol...
Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche FRS (10 February 1796 - 13 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. Read more
NGC 1656 (also MCG -1-13-5 and PGC 15949) is a magnitude +12.9 lenticular galaxy located 173 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 10t...
NGC 1663 (also OCL 461) is a magnitude +14.5 open cluster located 2,283 light-years away in the constellation Orion. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Datchet, Berkshire, on the 10th February 1784. Rig...
NGC 2446 (also IRAS 07446+5444, MCG 9-13-58, UGC 4027 and PGC 21860) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 261 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, S...
NGC 2456 (also UGC 4073, MCG 9-13-82, ZWG 262.44 and PGC 22129) is a magnitude +13.1 elliptical galaxy located 338 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy is close to the neighbouring galaxy NGC 2457. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5...
NGC 2463 (also MCG 10-12-31, ZWG 287.13, Arak 145 and PGC 22291) is a magnitude +14.2 elliptical galaxy located 381 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, S...
Title: Magnetic Storm and Aurora on February 9-10 Authors: Chree, Charles A magnetic storm was recorded at the Kew Observatory (National Physical Laboratory) on the afternoon of February 9 and early morning of February 10 larger than any that has occurred since October 31, 1903. The curves were sl...
Dr. Brian Greene (born February 9, 1963, New-York), is a physicist and one of the world's foremost string theorists. Since 2003 he has been a professor at Columbia University.
Brian Greene’s book, The Fabric of the Cosmos, reveals him to be a scientific romantic in the tradition of Albe...
The 1971 San Fernando earthquake (also known as the Sylmar earthquake) struck the San Fernando Valley near Sylmar, California at 6:00:55 a.m. PST on February 9, 1971, with a magnitude of 6.6. Read more
Researchers are normally hard-pressed to catch a fleeting glimpse of the so-called superheavy elements at the far edge of the periodic table. Now a team has gone a step further and studied the chemistry of short-lived element 112, which seems to bond with other elements in the same way as its mundane...
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