* Astronomy

Title: A Catalogue of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4 Authors: Daniel J. Eisenstein, James Liebert, Hugh C. Harris, S.J. Kleinmann, Atsuko Nitta, Nicole Silvestri, Scott A. Anderson, J.C. Barentine, Howard J. Brewin...

Title: Swift discovery of the orbital period of the HMXB IGR J015712-7259 in the SMC Authors: A. Segreto, G. Cusumano, V. La Parola (INAF IASF Palermo), A. D'Aì (UNIPA), N. Masetti (INAF -IASF Bo), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB) In the last years the hard X-ray astronomy has made a significant step forward,...

Title: Transits and occultations of an Earth-sized planet in an 8.5-hour orbit Authors: Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Saul Rappaport, Joshua N. Winn, Alan M. Levine, Michael C. Kotson, David W. Latham We report the discovery of an Earth-sized planet (1.1±0.2 Earth Radii) in an 8.5-hour orbit around a l...

Title: The Chandra X-ray view of the power sources in Cepheus A Authors: P. C. Schneider, H. M. Guenther, J. H. M. M. Schmitt The central part of the massive star-forming region Cepheus A contains several radio sources which indicate multiple outflow phenomena, yet the driving sources of the indivi...

The emission nebula IC 1396, 3000 light-years from planet Earth, is found in the constellation of Cepheus. The star forming region sprawls across hundreds of light-years - spanning over three degrees in the sky. Among the intriguing dark shapes within IC 1396, is the Elephant's Trunk n...

Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 - 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the Glider King. He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful gliding flights. He followed an experimental approach established previously by Sir George Cayley. [url=http...

County witnesses report seeing large, bright meteor If you saw a bright light blazing across the sky early Saturday and thought you might be going crazy, you're not, and you're not alone. Dozens of witnesses across the state and the region reported seeing what astronomers are calling a fragmenting...

Orbital elements: 2010 XD25 Earth MOID = 0.0583 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 282.54714 (2000.0) P Q n 0.68414546 Peri. 267.51160 +0.80510760 +0.13673245 a 1.2755684 Node 84.16592 +0.11503878 +0.91859076 e 0.3686374 Incl. 35.46168 -0.58186582 +0.37080352 P 1.44 H 20.6...

The Madhipura (L) meteorite fell in Bihar, India, on the 23rd May, 1950. A total mass of 1000 g was recovered. 25° 55'N, 86° 22'E

The Pavlodar (H5) meteorite fell in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, on the 23rd May, 1938. A total mass of 142.5 g was recovered. 52° 18'N, 77° 2'E

The Gopalpur (H6) meteorite fell in Rajshahi, Bangladesh, on the 23rd May, 1865. A total mass of 1600 g was recovered. 24° 14'N, 89° 3'E

The Sasagase (H) meteorite fell in Chubu, Japan, on the 13th February, 1688. A total mass of 695 g was recovered. 34° 43'N, 137° 47'E

Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 - 16 May 2013) was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Rohr...

Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II (1939-45). It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), and in the context of the burge...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a rare type of neutron star so elusive that it took three satellites to identify it. The findings, made with ESA`s Integral satellite and two NASA satellites, reveals new insights about star birth and death in our Galaxy. Researchers reported...