NGC 4874 (also MCG+05-31-070, Coma A, UGC 8103 and PGC 44628) is a magnitude +11.9 supergiant elliptical galaxy located 303 ±37 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It belongs to the Abell 1656 (Coma) cluster of galaxies. The central region of Abell 1656 is dominated by th...
STATUS REPORT: NASA Hubble Space Telescope Daily Report #4123Date Released: Tuesday, May 30, 2006OBSERVATIONS SCHEDULEDNICMOS 8791NICMOS Post-SAA calibration - CR Persistence Part 2A new procedure proposed to alleviate the CR-persistence problem of NICMOS. Dark frames will be obtained im...
Dimetrodon (meaning "two measures of teeth") was a predatory synapsid genus that flourished during the Permian period, living between 280-265 million years ago (Artinskian to Capitanian stages). It was more closely related to mammals than to true reptiles such as lizards. It is clas...
Roger Bacon OFM (Latin: Rogerus or Rogerius Bacon, also Frater Rogerus; c. 1219/20 - c. 1292), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor Mirabilis, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empirical methods. Read more
The onset of an extra-solar system - feeding a baby star with a dusty hamburger An international research team, led by Chin-Fei Lee in Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA, Taiwan), has made a new high-fidelity image with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Arr...
Title: GIER: A Danish computer from 1961 with a role in the modern revolution of astronomy Author: Erik Høg A Danish computer, GIER, from 1961 played a vital role in the development of a new method for astrometric measurement. This method, photon counting astrometry, ultimately led to two satellit...
Francesco Fontana (1580-c.1656) was an Italian lawyer (University of Naples) and an astronomer. He created woodcuts showing the Moon and the planets as he saw them through a self-constructed telescope. Read more
Double star may light up the sky as rare red nova in six years A dim binary star is behaving exactly as expected if it is about to explode as a "red nova". If that happens, in 2022 or so it could shine as brightly as the North Star. Dozens of ordinary novae - the temporary flare-ups of white dwarf stars steali...
Astronomers sniff intermediate mass black hole Astronomers from the University of Leicester and the CESR astrophysics lab in Toulouse reckon they've spotted an intermediate mass black hole - one of an elusive group of beasts weighing in between single star black holes and their supermassive cou...
NGC 4696: a cosmic question mark Curling around itself like a question mark, the unusual looking galaxy NGC 4696 itself begs many questions. Why is it such a strange shape? What are the odd, capillary-like filaments that stretch out of it? And what is the role of a large black hole in explaining its dec...
Pilot, meteorologist vying to be 1st German female astronaut A fighter pilot and a meteorologist have made the finals in the race to become Germany's first female astronaut. A private group is hoping to raise 50 million euros ($53.6 million) to send a German woman to the International Space Station...
New insights into what might trigger the eruption of Mount St Helens and other potentially explosive volcanoes are reported today in Nature by scientists working at the University of Bristol, UK.
Professor Jon Blundy and colleagues show that as magmas crystallise they heat up rather than coo...
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