Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Read more...
New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, far from its crowded core. The images are part of the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (Glimpse 360) project, which is mapping the celestial topography o...
A magnitude 11.1 nova was discovered in the constellation Scorpius by K. Nishiyama and F. Kabashima (Japan) on the 3rd June, 2013. www.k-itagaki.jp/images/sco.jpg Position (J2000): R.A. 17 33 59.45 | Dec. -36° 06' 21.1''
John Robertson, born in 1830 at Struan, was a railway porter residing in Causewayend. He was an amateur astronomer and contributed to several national journals on the subject. Source
Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi - December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomical historian. He is best known for his finding in Ancient Chinese history of the reference to Ganymede being visible [in the summer of 365 BC] to the human eye by ancient astronomer Gan De, before it was offic...
Institute of Archaeology unveil monolith in Gordon Square UCL Institute of Archaeology has installed a monolith in Gordon Square to celebrate 75 years of leading global archaeology. The sarsen stone, which was donated by a farmer in the Avebury area of Wiltshire, is instantly recognisable as an a...
The Bhawad (LL6) meteorite fell in Rajasthan, India, on the 6th June, 2002. A total mass of 678 g was recovered. 26° 30' 30"N, 73° 6' 55"EHistory: A woman witnessed a single stone fall near Bhawad village, Rajasthan, India. No fireball was seen. Physical characteristics: The crusted 11 x...
Venera 16 was a spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union. This unmanned orbiter was to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems. The spacecraft was identical to Venera 15 and based on modifications to the earlier Venera space probes. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Title: A Nearly Polar Orbit for the Extrasolar Hot Jupiter WASP-79b Authors: B. C. Addison, C. G. Tinney, D. J. Wright, D. Bayliss, G. Zhou, J. D. Hartman, G. Á. Bakos, B. Schmidt We report the measurement of a spin-orbit misalignment for WASP-79b, a recently discovered, extremely bloated transiti...
Title: Discovery of a probable 4-5 Jupiter-mass exoplanet to HD 95086 by direct-imaging Authors: J. Rameau , G. Chauvin , A.-M. Lagrange , A. Boccaletti , S. P. Quanz , M. Bonnefoy , J. H. Girard , P. Delorme , S. Desidera , H. Klahr , C. Mordasini , C. Dumas , M. Bonavita , T. Meshkat , V. Bailey , and M. Kenwo...
Title: Characterising the Orbital and Dynamical State of the HD 82943 Planetary System With Keck Radial Velocity Data Authors: Xianyu Tan (1), Matthew J. Payne (2), Man Hoi Lee (1), Eric B. Ford (3), Andrew W. Howard (4), John. A. Johnson (5), Geoff W. Marcy (6), Jason T. Wright (7) ((1) HKU, (2) CfA, (...
Title: A transit timing analysis of seven RISE light curves of the exoplanet system HAT-P-3 Authors: N. P. Gibson (1), D. Pollacco (1), S. Barros (1), C. Benn (2), D. Christian (3), M. Hrudková (4), Y. C. Joshi (1), F. P. Keenan (1), E. K. Simpson (1), I. Skillen (2), I. A. Steele (5), I. Todd (1) ((1) Quee...
