* Astronomy

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a domical mountain on Mars. Nia Tholus for a 34.01-km-wide Martian tholus (small domical mountain or hill) located at -6.59°, 285.05°. The feature was named after the classical albedo feature name.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a sulci on Mars. Candor Sulci for a 73.36-km-wide Martian sulci (furrow or fissure) located at -4.92°, 283.15°. The feature was named after a classical albedo feature name.

Orbital elements: 2013 EA29 Earth MOID = 0.0079 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 358.31781 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33706312 Peri. 61.50001 -0.62374835 +0.78144630 a 2.0448521 Node 169.85832 -0.74622722 -0.58899807 e 0.5951146 Incl. 5.44983 -0.23255738 -0.20596833 P 2.92 H 26.3 G...

Sunspots 11694, 11692, 11690, 11691, 11693 and 11689 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter/ Music via an Amiga 1200

The 200 - 440 metre wide asteroid 2000 ED14 will make a close pass (58.3 lunar distances, 0.1499 AU), travelling at 22.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th March, 2013 @ 10:35 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

Title: Red supergiants around the obscured open cluster Stephenson 2 Authors: Ignacio Negueruela, Amparo Marco, Carlos González-Fernández (Alicante), Fran Jiménez-Esteban (Spanish VO, CAB-CSIC), J. Simon Clark (Open University), Miriam Garcia (IAC), Enrique Solano (Spanish VO, CAB-CSI...

Title: Pre-main-sequence binaries with tidally disrupted discs: the Br gamma in HD 104237 Authors: P. J. V. Garcia, M. Benisty, C. Dougados, F. Bacciotti, J.-M. Clausse, F. Massi, A. Mérand, R. Petrov, G. Weigelt Active pre-main-sequence binaries with separations of around ten stellar radii pr...

Title: Updating the orbital ephemeris of Her X-1; rate of decay and eccentricity of the orbit Authors: R. Staubert, D. Klochkov, J. Wilms We present an update of the orbital ephemeris of the binary X-ray pulsar Her X-1 (4U1656+35) and determine an improved value for the rate of orbital decay. In addi...

A magnitude 8.5 nova was discovered by H. Nishimura (Japan) on the 9th November, 2009, in the constellation Scutum. Position (2000): RA = 18 43 45.57, Dec= -07 36 42.0

Pan-STARRS Finds a "Lost" Supernova The star Eta Carinae is ready to blow. 170 years ago, this 100-solar-mass object belched out several suns' worth of gas in an eruption that made it the second-brightest star after Sirius. That was just a precursor to the main event, since it will eventu...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Farim for a 3.92-km-wide Martian crater located at -44.31°, 139.28°. The feature was named after a town in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

This spot was first noticed last year by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Expand Cas...

HD190073, a star with a magnetic personality Researchers from the Observatoire de Paris and of the Service d'Astrophysique-Laboratoire AIM du CEA-Irfu have observed an unexpected change of direction of the fossil magnetic dipole of a young massive star, the Herbig star HD 190073. [url=http://...

Meteorite fetches $50 at local auction[url=http://standardspeaker.com/news/meteorite-fetches-50-at-local-auc...

Title: HST and Optical Data on SDSSJ0804+5103 (EZ Lyn) One Year after Outburst Authors: Paula Szkody, Anjum S. Mukadam, Edward M. Sion, Boris T. Gansicke, Arne Henden, Dean Townsley We present an ultraviolet spectrum and light curve of the short orbital period cataclysmic variable EZ Lyn obtaine...