Gravitational Lens Creates Cartoon of Space Invader The universe is eerie enough without giving us an apparition of a 1980s video game alien attacker. This oddball-looking object is really a mirage created by the gravitational field of a foreground cluster of galaxies warping space and distorti...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a valley on Mars. Tana Vallis for a 56.51-km-wide Martian valley located at 4.78°, 332.11°. The feature was named after a river in Kenya.
Title: Preservation of the middle Ordovician Winneshiek Shale in a probable impact crater Authors: MCKAY, Robert1, LIU, Huaibao1, WITZKE, Brian J.2, FRENCH, Bevan M.3, and BRIGGS, Derek E.G.4, (1) Iowa Geological & Water Survey, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 109 Trowbridge Hall,...
Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria.
"This is a big discovery, a revolution in science. It was not known that the dromedary was present in the Middle East more than 10,000 years ago" - Jean-Marie L...
Title: X-ray emission from RX J1720.1+2638 and Abell 267: a comparison between a fossil and a non-fossil system Authors: Elena Jiménez-Bailón, Mónica Lozada-Muñoz, J. Alfonso L. Aguerri We present the XMM-Newton X-ray analysis of RXJ1720.1+2638 and Abell267, a non-fossil and a fossil system,...
The Moon captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + IR-cut filter Very hazy conditions and Moon at a low declination. (The near perigee Moon was at its greatest southern declination of -20.4 degrees.) Processed with AviStack2 and...
Title: NGC 7419 as a template for red supergiant clusters Authors: Amparo Marco, Ignacio Negueruela The open cluster NGC 7419 is known to contain five red supergiants and a very high number of Be stars. However, there are conflicting reports about its age and distance that prevent a useful comparis...
Title: Pawel Max Maksym (1983-2013) Polish Astronomer and Film-maker Authors: Costantino Sigismondi The sudden and untimely death of Pawel Max Maksym will not diminish his contributions to the field of occultation astronomy, and to Polish society in general. Founder of the Pope Silvester II Ob...
Arianespace to launch first two satellites for NBN (National Broadband Network) of Australia The Australian operator NBN (National Broadband Network) has chosen Arianespace to launch its first two satellites, dedicated to broadband Internet services. The launch contract for NBN's first two...
Title: Three new stable L5 Mars Trojans Authors: C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos Mars was second to Jupiter in being recognised as the host of a population of Trojan minor bodies. Since 1990, 5 asteroids -5261 Eureka, (101429) 1998 VF31, (121514) 1999 UJ7, 2001 DH47 and (311999) 2007 NS2...
Title: The Infrared Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in the Galactic Supernova Remnant 3C 58 Authors: P. Slane, D. J. Helfand, S. P. Reynolds, B. M. Gaensler, A. Lemiere, Z. Wang We present infrared observations of 3C 58 with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. U...
The Fornax A radio lobes span over one million light years.
In the centre is a large but peculiar elliptical galaxy named NGC 1316.
Detailed inspection of the NGC 1316 system indicates that it began absorbing a small neighbouring galaxy about 100 million years ago.
NGC 13...
Title: Serendipitous Discovery of An Infrared Bow Shock Near PSR J1549-4848 with Spitzer Authors: Z. Wang, D. L. Kaplan, P. Slane, N. Morrell, V. M. Kaspi We report on the discovery of an infrared cometary nebula around PSR J1549-4848 in our Spitzer survey of a few middle-aged radio pulsars. Follow...
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