CanX-3, also known as BRIght-star Target Explorer (BRITE), is a mission planned to make photometric observations of some of the brightest starts in the sky in order to examine these stars for variability. The observations will have a precision at least 10 times better than achievable using ground...
Astronomers have spotted a binary star system that could collapse to produce a massive gamma-ray burst at any point during the next few hundred thousand years and it is pointing at Earth. The binary star system WR 104, some 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Sagittarius constellation, is made up of...
Soyuz TMA-09M is a planned 2013 flight to the International Space Station. It will transport three members of the Expedition 36 crew to the International Space Station. TMA-09M will be the 118th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first flight launching in 1967. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Colony of stromatolites found in Giant's Causeway In a small grey puddle tucked into a corner of the world famous Giant's Causeway, scientists have made an extraordinary find. A colony of stromatolites - tiny structures made by a primitive blue-green algae. Stromatolites are the oldest known fos...
Mega-galaxy is Missing Link in History of Cosmos Credit: JPL-Caltech/UC Irvine/Keck Observatory/STScI/NRAO/SAO/ESA/NASA Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, according to UC Irvine-led rese...
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N), to be launched into orbit for NASA aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket later this month, will be the focus of a media opportunity on Thursday, June 2. The event will be held at 17:30 GMT. at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Tit...
RMS Empress of Ireland was an ocean liner that sank in the Saint Lawrence River following a collision with a Norwegian collier in the early hours of 29 May 1914. The accident, which claimed the lives of 1,012 people (840 passengers, 172 crew), remains the worst disaster in Canadian maritime history....
Carol Kirkwood (born 29 May 1962) is a Scottish weather presenter, employed by the Met Office and best known for forecasting the weather for BBC Breakfast. Read more
Chien-Shiung Wu ( May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American physicist with expertise in the techniques of experimental physics and radioactivity. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project (she helped to develop the process for separating uranium metal into the U-235 and U-238 isotopes by...
Higgs: Edinburgh Award is a great surprise One of the world's most influential physicists, Professor Peter Higgs, who rarely gives interviews, has spoken to the BBC about his achievements. In the 1960s, when Professor Higgs lectured at Edinburgh University, he proposed the existence of a sub-a...
Title: The dwarf nova SS Cygni: what is wrong? Authors: Matthias R. Schreiber, Jean-Pierre Lasota Since using the Fine Guiding Sensor (FGS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) the distance to SS Cyg has been measured to be 166 ±12 pc, it became apparent that at this distance the disc instability mod...
The Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake is an annual event held on the Spring Bank Holiday at Cooper's Hill, (grid reference SO892146) near Gloucester in the Cotswolds region of England. It is traditionally by and for the people who live in the local village of Brockworth, but now people from all o...
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