Halton Christian "Chip" Arp (March 21, 1927 December 28, 2013) was an American astronomer. He was known for his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which (it was later realised) catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theo...
Title: Is the Eureka cluster a collisional family of Mars Trojan asteroids? Author: Apostolos A. Christou, Galin Borisov, Aldo Dell'Oro, Alberto Cellino, Stefano Bagnulo We explore the hypothesis that the Eureka family of sub-km asteroids in the L5 region of Mars could have formed in a collision...
A total of 10 Micro$oft security updates will be released on 14 June to fix a variety of flaws in the windows operating system.
Some of the updates have been rated as critical
June's update involves fixing 10 separate problems with Windows; seven of the fixes are for the Windows operating...
Heavy Particles Get Caught Up in the Flow By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and...
The discovery of gold cartouches dating back to 1400 BC sheds new light on the relationship between two ancient Egyptian rulers, Egypt's antiquities department said Friday.
A team of French and Egyptian archaeologists have discovered two sets of nine solid gold cartouches bearing the name o...
NGC 3938 (also Opimus Ursae Majoris, IRAS11502+4423, MCG 7-25-1, UGC 6856, and PGC 37229) is a magnitude +10.9 unbarred face-on spiral galaxy located 43 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. NGC 3938 can be found about 4° south-east of Chi Ursa Major (HD 102224). The galaxy was...
Volcanic rock discovery could reveal secrets of Earth's history
Geologists in Scotland have discovered a completely new type of volcanic rock, which they believe will help to pinpoint the precise time in Earth's history at which life emerged from the oceans and began to colonise...
The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was an event of stunning proportions, both in its human dimensions--nearly 300,000 lives lost--and as a geological phenomenon.
The sudden rupture of a huge fault beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a devastating tsunami. It was the la...
ESO, the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, is taking an important step towards the realisation of a new, giant telescope for Europe's astronomers, by creating the ESO Extremely Large Telescope Project Office. It will be headed by Jason Spyromilio, for...
The Lunar S can be observed just before a First Quarter Moon - when it is about 47% of Full. The feature can be found at the edge of Sinus Asperitatis (below Mare Tranquillitatis), and is formed by the shadows and sunlit highlights around the cr...
NGC 6210 (also Turtle Nebula, Struve 5, PK 43 +37.1, Lalande 30510 and GC 4234) is a magnitude +8.8 planetary nebula located 6500 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. It can be observed approximately 4° to the NE of the star Beta Herculis (Kornephoros). The central magnitude +12.9 white...
University of Maryland astronomer Michael A'Hearn has won the 2008 Kuiper Prize in recognition of his seminal contributions to, and leadership of, the study of comets. Awarded by the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Science (DPS) the Kuiper Prize is given "to scienti...
The 1400 metre wide asteroid (6063) Jason will make a close pass (30.8 lunar distances, 0.0790 AU), travelling at 24.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th November, 2013 @ 13:05 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (...
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