* Astronomy

Stars, Dust and Nebula in NGC 6559 When stars form, pandemonium reigns. A textbook case is the star forming region NGC 6559. Visible are red glowing emission nebulas of hydrogen, blue reflection nebulas of dust, dark absorption nebulas of dust, and the stars that formed from them. The firs...

In ancient times astronomy was astrology. Religious ceremonies were set in accordance with astronomical observation or prediction. Priests were astronomers. Eclipses because of their rarity have been considered to be very special phenomena throughout history. Eclipses were thought t...

New Techniques Allow Discovery of Smallest Super-Earth Exoplanets A University of Washington astronomer, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award, has discovered perhaps the smallest super-earth planet in its host star habitable zone. E...

The Mike (L6) meteorite fell in Somogy, Hungary, on the 3rd May, 1944. A total mass of 224 g was recovered. 46° 14'N, 17° 32'E

The Chaves (Howardite) meteorite fell in Vila Real, Portugal, on the 3rd May, 1925. A total mass of 2.95 kg was recovered. 41° 56'N, 7° 28'W

Maritime trade thrived in Egypt, even before Alexandria New research into Thonis-Heracleion, a sunken port-city that served as the gateway to Egypt in the first millennium BC, is being examined at an international conference at the University of Oxford. The port city, situated 6.5 kilometres of...

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First of Four Sounding Rockets Launched from the Marshall Islands A NASA sounding rocket supporting a study of ionosphere and its impact on radio transmissions was launched at 3:38 a.m. EDT, May 1 from Roi-Namur, Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Terrier-Orion rocket was the first of two to be l...

Asteroid (140) Siwa is at Opposition in the constellation Libra on the 2nd May, 2013. Distance to Earth: 1.523 AU Distance to Sun: 2.529 AU Magnitude: 11.5

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Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 - August 11, 1955) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. Read more

Alessandro Morbidelli (born May 2, 1966), is an Italian astronomer and planetary scientist currently employed by the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice. Read more

Shishapangma, also called Gosainthn, is the fourteenth-highest mountain in the world and, at 8,013 m, the lowest of the eight-thousanders. Shishapangma is located in south-central Tibet, five kilometres from the border with Nepal. Shishapangma was first climbed via the Northern Route on 2 May...

The Anlong (H5) meteorite fell in Guizhou, China, on the 2nd May, 1971. A total mass of 2.5 kg was recovered. 25° 9'N, 105° 11'E

The Kendleton (L4) meteorite fell in Texas, USA, on the 2nd May, 1939. A total mass of 6.94 kg was recovered. 29° 27'N, 96° 0'W