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Australian sky-gazers witness 'ring of fire' eclipse

Agence France-PresseMay 10, 2013 12:29
Sky-gazers were treated to an annular solar eclipse in remote areas of Australia on Friday, with the Moon crossing in front of the Sun to leave a "ring of fire" around its silhouette. The eclipse, which occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun but is too close to the Earth to completely cover the Sun, was seen in full across northern Australia, while Sydney saw a partial eclipse. "It was perfect," said Geoff Sims, who photographed the event from a remote spot in Western Australia.

Mysterious water on Jupiter came from comet smash

Agence France-PresseApril 23, 2013 07:47
Enigmatic traces of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter came from a comet that crashed into the giant planet in 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday. Astronomers have been debating the water for 15 years after telltale molecules were spotted by an infrared telescope. Some argued the water brewed up from lower levels of the gassy planet, but others said it could not have crossed a "cold barrier" separating the stratosphere from the cloud level below.

Astronomers find most Earth-like planets yet

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 17:18
Using a potent NASA space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life might exist, astronomers said Thursday they have found the most Earth-like candidates yet. Two of the five planets orbiting a sun-like star called Kepler-62 are squarely in what astronomers call the habitable zone -- not too hot, not too cold and possibly bearing water, researchers said in the journal Science. "These two are our best candidates that might be habitable," said William Borucki, Kepler science principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center.

Astronomers find most Earth-like planets yet

Agence France-PresseApril 18, 2013 14:31
Using a potent NASA space telescope to scan the skies for planets like ours where life may exist, astronomers said Thursday they have found the most Earth-like candidates yet. Two of the five planets orbiting a Sun-like star called Kepler-62 are squarely in the habitable zone -- not too hot, not too cold and possibly bearing water, NASA scientists reported in the journal Science. "These are the most similar objects to Earth that we have found yet," said Justin Crepp, assistant professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame.

NOFA-Ceres defending title in PFF-Suzuki U23

April 9, 2013 04:46
Negros Occidental Football Association (NOFA)-Ceres is determined in defending their championship title in this year’s Philippine Football Federation (PFF)-Suzuki National Under-23 Cup. NOFA-Ceres will first see action during the Visayas Regional Qualifying Round set on April 15-20 in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. Winning in the qualifying round is crucial for it will be their ticket to advance to the finals on May 20-25 in Cebu City.

NASA to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space

April 9, 2013 03:01
NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to a US senator.To get the project off the ground, US President Barack Obama will propose around $100 million for the US space agency in his 2014 budget, which he submits to Congress on Wednesday, Senator Bill Nelson said in a statement.The Florida Democrat explained that this is part of what will be a much broader program.The plan combines the science of mining an asteroid, along with developing ways

Russia mulls beacons and the bomb to thwart asteroids

March 12, 2013 09:30
Russian officials on Tuesday proposed ideas ranging from planting beacon transmitters on asteroids to megaton-sized nuclear strikes to avert the threat from meteor collisions with the Earth. Saving the world from asteroid strikes has moved out of the realm of science fiction in Russia into a political reality after a spectacular meteor explosion injured over 1,500 people in the Russian Urals in February. The meteor strike over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk raised fears of what could happen if an even larger space body entered the earth’s atmosphere above an inhabited area.

Earth gets a rush of weekend asteroid visitors

March 9, 2013 21:00
* One asteroid was discovered just six days ago * Smaller asteroid exploded over Russia last month * Two more celestial bodies to buzz Earth this weekend By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 9 - An asteroid as big as a city block shot relatively close by the Earth on Saturday, the latest in a series of visiting celestial objects including an asteroid the size of a bus that exploded over Russia last month, injuring 1,500.

Asteroid brushes past Earth hours after meteorite blast

February 26, 2013 11:20
Washington, Feb 15 (EFE).- Asteroid 2012 DA14 came within 27,000 kilometers (17,200) of Earth at 1924 GMT Friday, just hours after nearly 1,000 people were injured when a meteorite exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains. The asteroid hurtled past at 28,100 kph (17,460 mph), according to NASA, which said the blast in Russia had nothing to do with DA14. No object the size of DA14, weighing roughly 140,000 tons, has ever come so close to Earth in the more than 50 years NASA has been tracking asteroids.

Hundreds injured by meteorite in central Russia

February 26, 2013 11:19
Moscow, Feb 15 (EFE).- A large meteorite exploded Friday over an sparsely populated region of Russia's Ural Mountains, leaving nearly 1,000 injured and sparking panic. The rare event occurred just hours before an asteroid was due to pass Earth at a distance of just 27,000 kilometers (16,800 miles). "There were several dozen quite large fragments (of the meteorite), several of which fell to Earth," local news agencies quoted Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov as saying.
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