Title: A redline starburst: CO(2-1) observations of an Eddington-limited galaxy reveal star formation at its most extreme Authors: J. E. Geach (McGill), R. C. Hickox (Dartmouth), A. M. Diamond-Stanic (UCSD), M. Krips (IRAM), J. Moustakas (Siena College), C. A. Tremonti (Wisconsin-Madison),...
Title: Discovery of Raman-scattered lines in the massive luminous emission-line star LHA 115-S 18 Authors: A. F. Torres, M. Kraus, L. S. Cidale, R. Barbá, M. Borges Fernandes, E. Brandi LHA 115-S 18 is a very peculiar emission-line star exhibiting the B[e] phenomenon. Located in the Small Magella...
David Allan Bromley (May 4, 1926 - February 10, 2005) was a Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to American president George H. W. Bush. Read more
Did the universe evolve to make black holes? The maths underpinning Darwin's theory of natural selection could explain how the universe may be 'designed' to make black holes. New Oxford University research builds on the 'cosmological natural selection hypothesis' - an idea first put forward in t...
Orbital elements:
2011 WU95 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0476 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 34.26990 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.44438503 Peri. 243.32450 +0.65520586 +0.74722571
a 1.7007080 Node 68.06543 -0.64351453 +0.62913168
e 0.4400557 Incl. 6.88325 -0.39572000 +0.21411929
P 2.22 H 18...
Title: The Progenitor of the Type Ia Supernova that created SNR 0519-69.0 in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors: Zachary I. Edwards, Ashley Pagnotta, Bradley E. Schaefer Models for the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae can be divided into double-degenerate systems, which contain two whi...
STS-30 was the 29th NASA Space Shuttle mission and the fourth mission for Space Shuttle Atlantis. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 4 May 1989, and landed four days later. During the mission, Atlantis deployed the Venus-bound Magellan probe into orbit. [url=https://en...
Fritz Adam Hermann Opel, since 1918 von Opel (4 May 1899, Rüsselsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse - 8 April 1971), was the founder of the Opel Company. He is remembered mostly for his spectacular demonstrations of rocket propulsion that earned him the nickname "Rocket Fritz". On 15 March 1928 v...
William Kingdon Clifford FRS (4 May 1845 - 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. In 1870, he was part of an expedition to Italy to observe an eclipse, and survived a shipwreck along t...
Greenpeace Rainbow sails again The original ship, a converted British trawler, came to the most violent of ends in 1985 when it was blown up by French special forces in New Zealand, in an attempt to scuttle the Greenpeace campaign against French H-bomb tests in its Pacific colonies. As Greenpeace pu...
Manaslu, also known as Kutang is the eighth highest mountain in the world, and is located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. Manaslu was first climbed on May 9, 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu, members of a Japanese expedition. The first...
The Krasnyi Klyuch (H5) meteorite fell in Respublika Bashkortostan, Russia, on the 4th May, 1946. A total mass of 4 kg was recovered. 54° 20'N, 56° 5'E
Sunjammer spacecraft to 'sail' towards the sun The UK Space Agency has announced that British scientists are now working with Nasa to develop the spacecraft, known as Sunjammer, which will use a 13,000 square foot solar sail to propel itself nearly two million miles towards the sun. [url=http://w...
A 14th magnitude occultation star is expected to be occulted by the 14th magnitude Pluto, the joint star/Pluto light dimming by approximately a 50% and then brightening again. The maximum expected duration for this event is likely to be almost 4 ˝ minutes at the center of the shadow, and shorter as on...
