Information released at the AAS is at http://firstgalaxies.org/high-redshift-luminous-galaxies Link to the arXiv preprint is about 2/3 of the way down the...

If space expands does that not imply that the space between and within atoms (say in a "standard" meter stick) also expands? Would not the space/distance...

I'm trying to understand the description of a "meteor exploding." When a stick of dynamite explodes (a description I'm completely comfortable with) chemical...

From: "Jonathan Thornburg " Subject: Update on UDF-J-39546284 Newsgroups: sci.astro.research References:...

Thursday January 27th, 2011 23:05:18 UTC+1, jacob navia wrote : I am listening to the news conference of NASA, they pointed the new camera for a very...

Doing final tidy-ups for the final time -- yeah, right. Move a few, de-dup a few, then I find this: Q 2112.8+0594, a quasar catalogued in VCV13 onto an...

I have analyzed the mass distributions of the TOTAL system masses for the NS-NS and NS-WD samples published by Kiziltan et al in "The Neutron Star Mass...

In article , David Dalton writes: Is there anything special about the period (or...

Is there anything special about the period (or just time separation) of 5.5 lunar months (162 days) other than that it corresponds to 6 solar rotations? --...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130815083953.htm http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/1306.4980.pdf The Hubble sequence was already in place 11.5 Gyears...

Their has been a change in the standard kilogram mass at International Bureau of Weights and...

I've done some more cleanups of the VCV13 (2010,A&A,518,10) quasar catalog. These are different to those I published in 2013,PASA,30,4 as those were for...

The Science Media Group at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory will close at the end of the year after 30 years of work. This is the organization that...

An example of the wages of cataloguing: Today's new paper ArXiv:1309.7048 by 18 authors "Finding Rare AGN: XMM-Newton and Chandra Observations of SDSS Stripe...

I'm not sure if this post is appropriate for this forum, but there is an interesting project currently running on kickstarter regarding the digitization of...

I would like some feedback on what readers here perceive as the best format for an abstract. Basically, there are 5 things in an "abstract": the abstract...

Many articles have a DOI which points to the online version of the article. (The idea is that the DOI is constant while the URL for the online version might...

Philip Helbig wrote: quote ..... Why don't you write a paper, submit it to a journal, and post the rejection letter here so that we can see what arguments...

In the April 2013 release of the Million Quasars catalogue v3.3, I removed 144 "quasars" which I had sourced from the classic VCV13 quasar...

Hi After a discussion with Mr Eric Flesh in the thread "Tales of Cataloguing" I sent the following letter to Mr Hilton Ratcliffe. quote Subject: Do...