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BACHELOR SPOILERS, Brad Womack Love Astrology Predictions, R...

Reality Steve and Fans of Reality TV have already started rolling out the spoilers for new season of the Bachelor, starring Brad Womack. It includes the inside scoop that Womack a sexy Scorpio dude, will have 30 women to choose fro [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Mini black hole packs powerful punch

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope to follow up on a NASA Chandra X-ray telescope observation, the most powerful pair of jets ever seen have been found bursting from a black hole of just a few solar masses. This so-called microqua [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Stargazer spots Jupiter fireball

For the second time in less than a year, a local amateur astronomer has bettered the experts and recorded a cosmic impact on Jupiter. Anthony Wesley, of Murrumbateman, spotted the event, believed to be an asteroid or comet hitting the pl [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomy-based endeavors have more importance than is given...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy declared that the United States would put a man on the moon and return him to Earth by the end of the decade. He was right. And we haven't been back in almost 40 years. Now, President Barack Obama h [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Astronomers spot ticking supernova time bomb

A supernova — an exploding star — is among the brightest single objects in the known Universe. A supernova can release as much energy in a single second as the Sun will in a thousand years. Most people think of supernovae as mas [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomer Takes UNH Post

BU is losing one of its star professors. Harlan Spence, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of astronomy, will become head of the University of New Hampshire’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS) on Janu [...]

Posted On : Sep, 25 2009 | Comments : 0

Tropical Storm Spotted on Saturn's Moon Titan

A tropical storm was not what astronomers expected to see when they pointed their telescopes toward the equator of Saturn's moon Titan last summer. But that's exactly what they found on this beguiling moon, home to a weather system both eer [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Coronal Modeling With Realistic Energy Transport

Models of the solar corona typically simplify the energy equation by neglecting important energy transport processes. These "polytropic" models are useful but also have significant limitations. Through scientific and technical adv [...]

Posted On : Aug, 11 2009 | Comments : 0

Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers

While astronomers are pretty sure that the new spot seen in Jupiter's landscape is caused by impact, there is evidence that this is not true of the spot seen on Venus. New Scientist reports on why astronomers don't think the spot of Venus w [...]

Posted On : Aug, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Solar powered - Amateur astronomer snaps space shuttle

An amateur astronomer has captured the stunning sight of both the space shuttle Atlantis and Hubble Telescope silhouetted against the golden orb of the sun. It is the first ever image taken of a solar transit of a space shuttle and Hubble [...]

Posted On : May, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

Astronomers spot dancing black hole twins

U.S. astronomers reported on Wednesday that they have spotted a pair of super massive black holes orbiting each other within the same galaxy.This is the best evidence so far for the long-theorized existence of "binary black hole system [...]

Posted On : Mar, 05 2009 | Comments : 0

Postgraduate Opportunities in Astrophysics

The Astrophysics Group is offering standard, STFC funded research studentships in astronomy and astrophysics, and EPSRC (CASE) funded research studentship in plasma physics for students wishing to start Ph.D.s in October 2009. We would be p [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

New Galaxy Formation Theory Proposed

Galaxies, the building blocks of our universe, are each comprised of billions of radiant stars, which spread out across over 50,000 light years. Each galaxy has an unseen “spherical halo” of dark matter, which can only be dete [...]

Posted On : Feb, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Tekapo sky pushes for heritage status

New Zealand is pushing forward with its bid to make Tekapo the world's first night sky reserve.Former cabinet minister Margaret Austin, who is chairwoman of New Zealand's Starlight Reserve committee, has been in Paris attending the United N [...]