London, Sept.29 (ANI): A Cambridge University astronomer has been successful in reworking the distances to over 100,000 stars.

Dr Floor van Leeuwen, who has spent the past 10 years checking and
recalculating data gathered by the Hipparcos satellite,has now
corrected the star distances.

The reworked catalogue (Hipparcos - The New Reduction of the Raw
Data), according to the BBC, will allow astronomers to probe more
deeply into the properties of stars and galaxies.

London, Sept.29 : Norwegian archaeologists have reportedly discovered a Viking era cabin on the island Hrútey in Mjóifjördur Fjord in Ísafjardardjúp, also known as the West Fjords.

According to Ragnar Edvardsson, an archeologist at the West Fjords' Natural Science Center, diggings had revealed an oval building structure with a double layer of rocks and turf in between that can at least be traced back to the Middle Ages.

Washington, Sept.29 : Analysis of high-resolution satellite images by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has revealed evidence of grave human rights violations in Myanmar, including destruction of villages, forced relocations, and a growing military presence at 25 sites across the eastern part of the military-junta-ruled country.

Washington, Sept.28 : A small space capsule has been lost in Earth orbit after a space tether experiment went awry on Tuesday.

Washington, Sept.28 : A national public opinion survey conducted by the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University and the Associated Press has concluded that a majority of Americans continue to remain pessimistic about the environment and desire prompt action taken to improve its health.

London, Sept 28 : A radio burst that originated from beyond the Milky Way galaxy has befuddled astronomers.

Initial suspects include the merger of two dense stellar corpses called neutron stars and the complete evaporation of a black hole.

David Narkevic, an undergraduate student at West Virginia University in Morgantown, US, discovered the burst while searching through archived data taken in 2001 by the Parkes radio dish in Australia. He was looking for periodic signals from pulsars – rotating neutron stars – within our galaxy.