Dear all, If there's anyone in CERN who could lend us a small bottle of Krypton and/or Neon for a day, we would be very thankful. All we need is a few liters...

This message was posted to the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada members newsgroup but I would like to see a response from a wider audiance so I'm posting...

Hubble's Ultra Deep Field was scheduled to be published "mid-february" 2004. Still nothing in the STSCI web pages. Has anyone seen it? There was a glimpse...

Is anyone running IRAF on a iMAC running OS10 Panther? If so, how well does it work? Any problems? Ed

I am trying to put some numbers on conditions at the end of inflation. Am I right that inflation ended at 10^-35 sec? What are the bounds for that...

"Nicolaas Vroom" schreef in bericht ... In the article in Nature Vol 427 of 5...

Greetings all, I am looking for the most accurate way to determine the position of the sun with respect to an orbiting satellite. I've searched on the web...

This is a test posting to verify the correct functioning of a new posting system which should allow spam-munged domains in the From: line of posted articles.

In a recent paper by Ragazzoni et al., http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303043 Title: Lack of observational evidence for quantum structure of space-time at...

In New Scientist 10 March 1990 page 17 refers to an article in Nature vol 343 p726 by Tom Broadhurst, Richard Ellis, David Koo and Alex Szalay, a joint...

] Hi, you experts! ;-) I stumbled over this Mars Global Surveyor photo, url: http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/m07_m12/images/M09/M0902042.html "MOC...

Please consider sending your postings on topics in astronomy and astrophysics to sci.astro.research! sci.astro.research is a moderated newsgroup for the...

(I posted this in alt.astronomy, but received no answer) In the current models of big bang, the inflation period is followed by a period of re-heating. I have...

Phillip Helbig wrote: "Dark energy" is a newfangled name for the cosmological constant. As Sean Carroll points out, a better name would be "smooth tension". ...

SolStation.com says Barnard's Star ( http://www.solstation.com/stars/barnards.htm ) is an old disk star. It's at least 10 billion years old and has a very...

It is my understanding that the atmosphere of Mars is so thin that the winds that always go hundreds of miles per hour would only feel like a light breeze. ...

I was reading a description of the laser guide star adaptive optics system being developed for the Keck telescopes, when it suddently occurred to me that Mauna...

I'm updating the physics FAQ on "open questions in physics". It's interesting to see how much progress has been made since this FAQ was last updated in 1997. ...

In article , Ted Sung wrote: I am curious as to how the distance from the sun to the center...

Just a line to say that a new forum on Astronomy has been created at URL: http://gclusters.proboards23.com/ This forum is intended to work mainly (but not...