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Mars Science Laboratory is repeating a highly successful process performed for the Mars Exploration Rovers, in which the entire scientific community -- not just the mission's science team -- has been offered the opportunity to provide input into the selection of the landing site. This process is...

Spaceport protest delays rocket launch in French Guiana The launch of a French rocket from a space centre in French Guiana has been delayed after workers erected barricades as part of a labour dispute. The Ariane 5 rocket was due to take a South Korean satellite and a Brazilian satellite into orbit la...

70 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam

Jupiter through a 6 inch GSO telescope Click to Play | View Details

Six panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Fortran (previously FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. The first manual for FORTRAN appeared on the 15 October 1956, with the first FORTRAN compiler delivered in April 1957. Read more

Jurassic animal found on Skye 'fed milk to young' Palaeontologists believe an animal that lived in what is now Skye 165 million years ago fed milk to its young. Milk teeth have been discovered in the fossil jaw of a juvenile Wareolestes rex, a species of mammal from the Middle Jurassic. Scientists sug...

A Lot of Galaxies Need Guarding in This NASA Hubble View Abell 370 is located approximately 4 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus, the Sea Monster. It is the last of six galaxy clusters imaged in the recently concluded Frontier Fields project - an ambitious, community-developed co...

ATel 10348: M81N 2017-04c is probably a red variable

ATel 10287: MASTER-OAFA: PSN in NGC 5516

Title: XMM-Newton observation of the interacting galaxies NGC1512 and NGC1510 Author: L. Ducci (1, 2), P. J. Kavanagh (1), M. Sasaki (1), B. S. Koribalski (3) ((1) IAAT, University of Tübingen, (2) ISDC Genève, (3) ATNF, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science) The galaxy NGC1512 is interacting with th...

NGC 5353 (also HCG 68A, UGC 8813, MCG +07-29-010, and PGC 49356) is a magnitude +11.1 lenticular galaxy located 110 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy forms an interacting pair with its close companion NGC 5354. The NGC 5353 galaxy group, also known as Hickso...

Title: OGLE-2016-BLG-1003: First Resolved Caustic-crossing Binary-source Event Discovered by Second-generation Microlensing Surveys Author: Y. K. Jung, A. Udalski, I. A. Bond, J. C. Yee, A. Gould, C. Han, M. D. Albrow, C.-U. Lee, S.-L. Kim, K.-H. Hwang, S.-J. Chung, Y.-H. Ryu, I.-G. Shin, W. Z...

Kinrara volcano erupted 7,000 years ago, say Scots experts The team from Glasgow University worked with colleagues in Australia to calculate that the Queensland volcano, part of ancient Aboriginal community folklore, last erupted around 7,000 years ago. The research team examined rock sample...

About 1.8 billion years ago, a meteorite or comet the size of Mount Everest slammed into what is now Canada. According to James Mungall, a University of Toronto geologist, the impact turned part of the Earth's crust inside out and dusted the surface with a rare metal. Mungall and other experts...