* Astronomy

Title: The puzzle of metallicity and multiple stellar populations in the Globular Clusters in Fornax Authors: F. D'Antona, V. Caloi, A. D'Ercole, M. Tailo, E. Vesperini, P. Ventura, M. Di Criscienzo We examine the photometric data for Fornax clusters, focussing our attention on their horizonta...

Dr. Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. On June 18, 1983, she became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. Read more

The Pacula (stone; L6 ordinary chondrite) meteorite fell in Hidalgo, Mexico on the 18th June, 1881. Recovered weight: 3.4 kg Location: 21° 3' N, 99° 18' W

The daughters of the first cosmonaut Yury Gagarin are suing Moscow-based film company Central Partnership, distributor of the tragi-comic feature film "Gagarin's Grandson," for allegedly misusing Gagarin's name and...

Giant mirror will boldly go to explore galaxies: At the Tuorla Observatory in Piikkiö, near Turku, Finland, most of the last eight months have been spent in polishing the world's largest space mirror, 3.5 metres in diameter. In February 2007, the mirror will be launched with an Ariane-5 r...

William Lassell FRS (18 June 1799 - 5 October 1880) was an English merchant and astronomer. In 1846 Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle. In 1848 he independently co-discovered Hyper...

The Avilez (Spherulitic chondrite) meteorite fell in Durango, Mexico, in June 1855. Recovered weight: 146 g Latitude: 25° N, Longitude: 103° 30' W

The Seres (H4) meteorite was discovered in Macedonia, Greece, in June, 1818. A total mass of 8.5 kg was recovered. 41° 3'N, 23° 34'E

Denison Olmsted (June 18, 1791 - May 13, 1859), U.S. physicist and astronomer, was born at East Hartford, Connecticut. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. [url=http://en.w...

Title: KIC 4544587: an Eccentric, Short Period Binary System with delta Sct Pulsations and Tidally Excited Modes Authors: K. M. Hambleton, D. W. Kurtz, A. Prsa, J. A. Guzik, K. Pavlovski, S. Bloemen, J. Southworth, K. Conroy, S. P. Littlefair, J. Fuller We present Kepler photometry and ground base...

William Vallance Douglas Hodge FRS (17 June 1903 - 7 July 1975) was a Scottish mathematician, specifically a geometer. Read more

Title: The Spitzer Spirals, Bridges, and Tails Interacting Galaxy Survey: Interaction-Induced Star Formation in the Mid-Infrared Authors: Beverly J. Smith (ETSU), C. Struck (ISU), M. Han**** (ETSU), P. N. Appleton (SSC), V. Charmandaris (UCrete), W. T. Reach (SSC) We p...

Title: The Fast and Furious Decay of the Peculiar Type Ic Supernova 2005ek Authors: M. R. Drout, A. M. Soderberg, P. A. Mazzali, J. T. Parrent, R. Margutti, D. Milisavljevic, N. E. Sanders, R. Chornock, R. J. Foley, R. P. Kirshner, A. V. Filippenko, W. Li, P. J. Brown, S. B. Cenko, S. Chakraborti, P. Cha...

Title: NGC 1252: a high altitude, metal poor open cluster remnant Authors: R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. de la Fuente Marcos, C. Moni Bidin, G. Carraro, E. Costa If stars form in clusters but most stars belong to the field, understanding the details of the transition from the former to the latter is impera...

Title: A 30 AU radius CO gas hole in the disk around the Herbig Ae star Oph IRS 48 Authors: Joanna M. Brown, Gregory J. Herczeg, Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Ewine F. van Dishoeck The physical processes leading to the disappearance of disks around young stars are not well understood. A subclass of transition...