First amateur radio-astronomy detection in Slovak Republic

10 August, 2009 (17:34) | 3 comments

First amateur radio astronomy detection of Cygnus A and the Hydrogen-line in Slovak Republic has been done with Fedora system using gnuradio software package.
More information on WavesFromSpace.org.

Open-mindedness lesson for close-mindeds

6 April, 2009 (22:37) | 1 comment

Nigerian goat detained for armed robbery to steal a Mazda 323

26 January, 2009 (11:08) | No comments

Ok, this is too strange even for me – I have to share it.
A goat has been taken to the police in Nigeria on suspicion of attempted armed robbery in the African country’s western Kwara State. A group of vigilantes took the animal to the police arguing it was an armed robber who was trying [...]

Fedora QA: gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update

5 January, 2009 (00:06) | No comments

Please test gnuradio-3.1.3-2.fc10 bugfix update.

* Fri Dec 19 2008 Marek Mahut <mma…@fedoraproject.org> – 3.1.3-2
- Upstream release 3.1.3
- Comedi support
- RHBZ#473928 Unowned directories

Fomalhaut B: first optical image of an exoplanet

14 November, 2008 (14:51) | 1 comment

Astronomers discovered on picture taken by Hubble Space Telesope of Fomolhaut star a tiny dot, which has been identified as its orbiting planet called Fomalhaut B. It has carved a path along the inner edge of a vast, dusty debris ring encircling Fomalhaut that is 34.6 billion kilometers across. Fomalhaut b lies 2.9 billion kilometers [...]

H+

11 November, 2008 (17:24) | No comments

End of Phoenix Mars Lander’s destiny

5 November, 2008 (00:38) | No comments

NASA released a status report stating that Phoenix is going to end its valuable mission on Mars soon. Communication center lost the connection with Phoenix last week, but managed to reestablish the connection at some point. It’s nice that even Phoenix has his twitter account :) Check it out for updates. Phoenix, thanks for all [...]

Trailer: Welcome to the Universe

20 October, 2008 (11:36) | No comments

http://youtube.com/user/AndromedasWake

2008 TC3: Small planetoid 8TA9D69 will cross Earth’s atmosphere

6 October, 2008 (20:03) | 1 comment

Small planetoid with name 8TA9D69 (also know as 2008 TC3) can cross Earth’s atmosphere just in few hours, chances of this are about 90%. This big bolide (very bright meteoroid that can be visible even during day) will enter Earth’s atmosphere at about 2h30 – 2h50 UTC 7th Oct 2008 There’s nothing to worry about, [...]

Researchers in Europe: Noc vědců

21 September, 2008 (17:06) | No comments

26th September is know as Researchers’ night (noc vedcu in .cz), launched in 2005 under the “Researchers in Europe” initiative, offers the large public a unique opportunity to discover the researchers and their magic world: dozens of labs, universities, enterprises, foundations… open their doors and unveil their secrets Europe wide, allowing each of you, “hand [...]