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Landsat Thermal Sensor Lights Up from Volcano's Heat As the Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite flew over Indonesia's Flores Sea April 29, it captured an image of Paluweh volcano spewing ash into the air. The satellite's Operational Land Imager detected the white cloud of smoke and ash drif...

The transit of Mercury on May 7th, 2003 was visible at three GONG sites. Read more On Wednesday, 2003 May 07, Mercury will transit the Sun for the first time since 1999. The entire event will be widely visible from the Europe, Af...

The Great Natchez Tornado hit Natchez, Mississippi on May 7, 1840. It is the second deadliest single tornado in United States history, killing 317 people (the only tornado in the United States to have killed more people was the Tri-State Tornado). [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Na...

Raymond Arthur Lyttleton FRS (May 7, 1911 - May 16, 1995) was a British mathematician and theoretical astronomer. He wrote a number of books: The Comets and Their Origin (1953), The Stability of Rotating Liquid Masses (1953), The Modern Universe {1956}, Rival Theories of Cosmology {1960}, Man's V...

Title: The Meteor of May 7, 1928 Authors: Watson, F. On the evening of May 7, 1928, a brilliant meteor moved over eastern Canada and left in its wake a train visible for an hour and a half. Through fortuitous circumstances a photograph of this meteor train, taken from Chicoutimi, P.Q., came only recent...

The Fifth Element is a 1997 French comedy-science fiction film directed, co-written, and based on a story by Luc Besson, starring Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, and Milla Jovovich. Read more Spoiler

The Sun captured with a 100mm refractor telescope and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter.

Orbital elements: 2013 JP4 Earth MOID = 0.0354 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 19.87882 (2000.0) P Q n 0.58579362 Peri. 297.56043 -0.93986807 -0.30196632 a 1.4146194 Node 225.36709 +0.33387933 -0.91072785 e 0.3551009 Incl. 12.95830 -0.07192075 -0.28176430 P 1.68 H 24.7 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 JO4 Earth MOID = 0.1539 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 15.36781 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38407622 Peri. 33.59124 -0.72380601 -0.63455738 a 1.8743806 Node 104.58742 +0.55527377 -0.76881950 e 0.6189409 Incl. 16.26189 +0.40960456 -0.07907906 P 2.57 H 20.4 G 0...

Asteroid (156) Xanthippe is a large, dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Austrian astronomer J. Palisa on November 22, 1875. It is named after Xanthippe, the wife of the Greek philosopher Socrates. Read more

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Binary Nucleus of the Planetary Nebula EGB 6 Authors: James Liebert, Howard E. Bond, P. Dufour, Robin Ciardullo, Michael G. Meakes, Alvio Renzini, A. Gianninas EGB 6 is an ancient, low-surface-brightness planetary nebula. The central star, also cata...

Robert Edwin Peary, Sr. (May 6, 1856 - February 20, 1920) was an American explorer who claimed to have led the first expedition, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, rather than the competing claim by Frederick Cook who sa...

Anlaug Amanda Djupvik is a Norwegian astronomer. Her main field of research is star formation and the origin of the initial mass function. Read more

The 1976 Friuli earthquake, also known in Italy as Terremoto del Friuli (Friulian earthquake), took place in the Friuli region in northeast Italy on Thursday, May 6, 1976. Read more

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