The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman Interview (1981) Spoiler BBC Horizon/PBS Nova The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Richard Feynman Interview (1981)
Title: Black hole Spin in Sw J1644+57 and Sw J2058+05 Authors: Wei-Hua Lei, Bing Zhang Recently a hard X-ray transient event, Sw J1644+57, was discovered by the Swift satellite, which marks the onset of a relativistic jet from a supermassive black hole, likely triggered by a tidal disruption event...
Title: Magnetic fields in cometary globules - IV. LBN 437 Authors: Archana Soam, G. Maheswar, H.C. Bhatt, Chang Won Lee, A. N. Ramaprakash We present results of our R-band polarimetry of a cometary globule, LBN 437 (Gal96-15, \ell = 96°, {b} =-15°), to study magnetic field geometry of the cloud. We e...
Title: Multi-wavelength Observations of the Giant X-ray Flare Galaxy NGC 5905: signatures of tidal disruption Authors: H.Raichur, M.Das, A.Alonso Herrero, P.Shastri, N.G.Kantharia NGC 5905 is one of the few galaxies in which an X-ray flare was discovered by the ROSAT All Sky Survey (RASS). Thi...
Title: On the Habitable Zones of Circumbinary Planetary Systems Authors: Stephen R. Kane, Natalie R. Hinkel The effect of the stellar flux on exoplanetary systems is becoming an increasingly important property as more planets are discovered in the Habitable Zone (HZ). The Kepler mission has rec...
Title: Multi-Colour Photometry of the Outburst of the New WZ Sge-type Dwarf Nova, OT J012059.6+325545 Authors: Shinichi Nakagawa, Ryo Noguchi, Eriko Iino, Kazuyuki Ogura, Katsura Matsumoto, Akira Arai, Mizuki Isogai, Makoto Uemura We present our photometric studies of the newly discovered o...
Flash in East Coast sky likely a meteor East Coast residents were buzzing on social media sites and elsewhere Friday night after a brief but bright flash of light streaked across the early-evening sky -in what experts say was almost certainly a meteor coming down. [url=http://www.adn.com/2013/0...
Obama will reveal $100-million plan to seize asteroid NASA astronauts are supposed to visit an asteroid by the mid-2020s, but what if the technology to take them there isn't ready in time? No problem - just drag the rock into orbit around the moon. [url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23...
Boeing Phantom Phoenix Small Satellites Reduce Manufacturing, Mission Costs Boeing is developing a family of small satellite prototypes, called Phantom Phoenix, that can quickly and affordably be manufactured and configured for specific missions. Sharing a common architecture, flight sof...
China has signalled that it will play a significant role in the exploration of the solar system. Japan is building a substantial program, and India may not be far behind. Almost all Western nations have national space programs of some sort, as do several nations in South-East Asia. Australia stands...
A new launch slot has been identified for the second Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellite which is now due to be launched towards the end of 2005.
This announcement was made by Arianespace last week, following findings concerning the Ariane 5 GS vehicle which affected the launch date for...
Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for its BBC1 channel. Created by Terry Nation, a prolific television writer best known for creating the popular Dalek monsters for the television series Doctor Who, it ran for four series between 1978 and 1981. Read more [...
Kappa Coronae Borealis is a star approximately 102 light years away in the constellation of Corona Borealis.The apparent magnitude is +4.82 (4.17 trillion times fainter than the Sun) and the absolute magnitude is +2.35 (9.82 times brighter than the Sun). It is an orange K-type subgiant star, mean...
