Eclipses, Occultations and Transits

Star clusters, Jupiter's moons can be viewed at new Mt. A. observatory tomorrow A10 Charles Perry Weather With the naked eye, the planet Jupiter will be clearly visible low in the southern sky tomorrow night.  

As the sun set Wednesday, 60 to 70 people gathered on the Oval to peer through telescopes at Jupiter and the Ring and Andromeda nebulas in honor of the late physics and astronomy professor David Friend. For the first hour of the star party, the sky was covered in clouds but David’s family...  

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for their work in sub-atomic physics, the prize committee said on Tuesday.  

Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles, the prize committee said on Tuesday.  

Two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.  

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.  

Scientists who have pursued dark matter, hunted for undiscovered planets and advanced nanotechnology were being touted Monday as candidates for the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics.  

Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering work on fundamental particles of matter called quarks.  

Yoichiro Nambu, an American, discovered a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics. Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa discovered the origin of the broken symmetry tied to quarks.  

Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: - 2008: U.S. citizen Yoichiro Nambu and Japanese researchers Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa for work on "spontaneous broken symmetry" in subatomic physics. - 2007: France's Albert Fert and...  

A simulation of the way outsider galaxies like the Milky Way are drawn into larger clusters explains how they can cling onto their star-forming ability  

Five astronomy viewings are scheduled in October and November at East Central University’s observatory northeast of Norris Field.  

European physicists who study particles from outer space made a pitch this week for the ambitious and costly experiments they want to build over the next decade. Author: Daniel Clery  

There's an old saying in astronomy: "Galaxies are like people. They're only normal until you get to know them." That view is supported by a group of astronomers after using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study a large number of galaxies in our cosmic backyard.  

Last week, during his first visit to the United States as the U.K. government's chief scientific adviser, John Beddington sat down with Science's news editors to discuss topics as varied as food, fuel, and physics. Author: Daniel Clery