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The Heart of Herschel is complete With a revolutionary 3.5 metre primary mirror, Herschel will be the largest space telescope ever launched. Its helium-cooled sensitive science instruments will have the potential to penetrate the unknown areas of the cold, early universe. ESA's far-infrared s...

We report near-infrared J, H, and K band photometry of Nova Cephei 2013 (CBET #3397). Read more

Ice tubes in polar seas - "brinicles" or "sea stalactites" - provide clues to origin of life Life on Earth may have originated not in warm tropical seas, but with weird tubes of ice - sometimes called "sea stalactites" - that grow downward into cold seawater near the...

Orbital elements: 2012 DR30 Epoch 2012 Feb. 23.0 TT = JDT 2455980.5 MPC M 0.00023 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00048493 Peri. 203.99474 -0.89403431 +0.30999605 a 160.4539006 Node 340.53326 +0.35150415 +0.03779252 e 0.9100696 Incl. 76.04753 -0.27775437 -0.94998641 P2032 H 7.2 G 0.15 From 68 observ...

Title: The Photometric System of Tsinghua-NAOC 80-cm Telescope at NAOC Xinglong Observatory Authors: Fang Huang, Jun-Zheng Li, Xiao-Feng Wang, Ren-Cheng Shang, Tian-Meng Zhang, Jing-Yao Hu, Yu-Lei Qiu, Xiao-Jun Jiang Tsinghua-NAOC (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Telesco...

Sun captured with a 100mm efractor and Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter.

Soyuz TM-32 was a manned Russian spacecraft which was launched on April 28, 2001, and docked with the International Space Station two days later. It launched the crew of the visiting mission ISS EP-1, which included the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito, as well as two Russian cosmonauts. [url...

Jacques Laskar (born 28 April 1955 in Paris) is a French astronomer. He is currently a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and a member of Astronomy and dynamical systems of the Institute of Celestial Mechanics and Computing Ephemerides (IMCCE) of the P...

Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 - July 18, 1997), also known as Gene Shoemaker, was an American geologist and one of the founders of the field of planetary science. Read more

On the morning of 28 April, 1942, the D-Day invasion rehearsals was blighted when a convoy of follow-up troops was attacked by nine German E-boats in Lyme Bay. As a result of official embarrassment and concerns over possible leaks just prior to the real invasion, all survivors were sworn to secrecy b...

Léopold Eyharts is a Brigadier General in the French Air Force and an ESA astronaut. Read more

The Bherai (L6) meteorite fell in Gujarat, India, on the 28th April, 1893. A total mass of 100 g was recovered. 20° 50'N, 71° 28'E

Title: Planetary-mass companions to the K-giants BD+15 2940 and HD 233604 Authors: G. Nowak, A. Niedzielski, A. Wolszczan, M. Adamów, G. Maciejewski We report the discovery of planetary-mass companions to two red giants by the ongoing Penn State - Torun Planet Search (PTPS) conducted with the 9....

Title: PS1-10jh - a tidal disruption event with an extremely low disk temperature Authors: Matias Montesinos Armijo, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco The cooler than expected optical-UV transient PS1-10jh detected by the Pan-STARRS1 survey is probably related to a tidal disruption event in which a He-r...

Title: The asymmetric Kerr metric as a source of CP violation Authors: Mark J Hadley All experimental evidence for violation of discrete spacetime symmetries: Parity and Time reversal and the related Charge conjugation/Parity combination (P, T and CP respectively) has been obtained on earth in...