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Manned mission to Mars would threaten Martian life It may take decades before astronauts could set foot on Mars, but scientists have warned that humans could be a danger to the planet's native if they land on it. They say a swarming mass of 100 trillion microbes will travel with every astronaut who may...

Svante Elis Strömgren (31 May 1870 - 5 April 1947) was a Swedish-Danish astronomer. Strömgren worked in a variety of fields but was particularly interested in theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics, publishing works on the origin and orbits of comets. He also worked on the calculations fo...

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Title: Denoising observational data Authors: Ph.-A. Bourdin (1 and 2) ((1) Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, (2) Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik) Reducing noise caused by the instrumentation in observational data is a crucial step in data post-processing. A method is...

Title: The hydrogen-deficient knot of the 'born again' planetary nebula Abell 58 (V605 Aql) Authors: R. Wesson, M.J. Barlow, X-W. Liu, P.J. Storey, B. Ercolano, O. De Marco We have analysed deep optical spectra of the 'born-again' planetary nebula Abell 58 and its hydrogen-deficient knot, surro...

Supergiant star Gamma Cygni (Sadr) lies at the centre of the Northern Cross, a famous asterism in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. The star lies at the centre of a complex of stars, dust clouds, and glowing nebulae along the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. [img]http://farm1.static.flickr.co...

Start-Up Sees New Frontier in Mining On Tuesday, Planetary Resources Inc., whose mission has been shrouded in secrecy, will outline in Seattle its plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid and mine it for valuable metals and water that could be used in further space exploration or returne...

Hurricane BARBARA (02E) is forecast to to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 95% currently probability for TS is 95% currently Hurricane Barbara lashes Mexico's southern coast

Orbital elements: 2002 KK8 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0294 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 351.63480 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36093739 Peri. 174.14482 -0.31403736 +0.85884415 a 1.9536562 Node 77.00979 -0.88705232 -0.11349187 e 0.4664430 Incl. 24.53885 -0.33840614 -0.49950608 P 2.73 H 2...

Orbital elements: 2013 KY5 Earth MOID = 0.3110 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 33.71257 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39765100 Peri. 7.79817 -0.28873512 -0.89635294 a 1.8314764 Node 99.46495 +0.85897058 -0.39772457 e 0.6528898 Incl. 19.94212 +0.42284936 +0.19587385 P 2.48 H 19.4 G 0.1...

The burning of the Jaffna library was an important event in the Sri Lankan civil war. An organized mob of Sinhalese origin went on a rampage on the nights of May 31 to June 1, 1981, burning the Jaffna public library. It was one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century. [url=h...

5038 Overbeek (1948 KF) is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on May 31, 1948 by E. L. Johnson at Johannesburg. It was named after South African amateur astronomer Michiel Daniel Overbeek. Read more

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A Great Conjunction is a conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn. The last Great Conjunction took place on May 31, 2000, while the next one will be in late December 2020. Read more

Mercury: at magnitude -1.0, starts the month in the constellation of Pisces. Mercury in superior conjunction on the 27th. Mercury is 0.5° from Mars on the 7th May, 2013. (On May 1st, ) Venus: is at magnitude -3.9. The planet is in constellation Aries at the start of the month. It is best seen...