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 London UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2009 
A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP project in collaboration with Geneva Observatory. The discovery, which casts new light on how planetary systems form and evolve, was announced in a paper submitted to Astrophysical Journal August 12. Si ... read more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 13, 2009In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first humans to orbit the Moon. Going further than any explorers before them, they gazed at the barren, cratered landscape beneath them, saw the Moon's far side with their own eyes, and took some history-making photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon. On Christmas Eve, the crew made a live television broadcast to millions of ... more
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 13, 2009One of the hottest topics at this year's XXVIIth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil involves the study of the astrophysical conditions favourable for the development and survival of primordial life. New research shows that compared to middle-aged stars like the sun, newly formed stars spin faster generating strong magnetic fields that result ... more  
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Aug 13, 2009Saturn's haze-enshrouded moon Titan turns out to have much in common with Earth in the way that weather and geology shape its terrain, according to two pieces of research to be presented at the XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Wind, rain, volcanoes, tectonics and other Earth-like processes all sculpt features on Titan's complex ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 12, 2009An unmanned German mission to the moon is plausible by the middle of the next decade, the official in charge of space flight said on Wednesday, despite the financial crisis battering the country. "A German moon-landing is possible during the course of the next decade, around 2015," Peter Hintze, state secretary for economy and technology, told ZDF television. Such a mission would cost ar ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Splat! There goes another bug on the windshield. Anyone who's ever driven down a country lane has seen it happen. A fast moving car, a cloud of multiplying insects, and a big disgusting mess. The next time that happens to you, instead of grossing out, try thinking of the experience as an astronomy lesson. Your car is Earth. The bugs are tiny flakes of comet dust. The carnage on your ... more 
Fort Davis TX (SPX) Aug 11, 2009It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on August 12, with a second chance after sunset that night, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. At its peak, this year's shower could produce up to 100 meteors per hour. The actual peak is during the day for viewers in North America ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 11, 2009In 1918, magician extraordinaire Harry Houdini created a sensation when he made a 10,000 pound elephant disappear before a mystified audience of over 5,200 at New York's famed Hippodrome theatre. But a vanishing pachyderm is nothing compared to the magnificent illusion to be performed by our solar system's own sixth rock from the sun on Aug. 11. On that day, ladies and gentlemen, boys and ... more |
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