Title: A transit timing analysis of nine RISE light curves of the exoplanet system TrES-3 Authors: N. P. Gibson (1), D. Pollacco (1), I. Skillen (2), E. K. Simpson (1), S. Barros (1), Y. C. Joshi (1), I. Todd (1), C. Benn (2), D. Christian (1), M. Hrudková (3), F. P. Keenan (1), I. A. Steele (4) ((1) Queen'...
NGC 4261 (also MCG 1-31-52, UGC 7360 and PGC 39659) is a magnitude +11.4 elliptical galaxy located 103 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Ber...
Hawaii's W.M. Keck Observatory will use a grant from a charitable foundation to improve conditions for its summit crew.
The M.R. and Evelyn Hudson Foundation of Dallas selected the observatory for a $75,000 donation, the observatory said Sunday night.
"One of Hudson Foundation's area...
NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 billion years ago. Magnetiz...
Mount Sinabung (Indonesian: Gunung Sinabung) is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia, 25 miles from Lake Toba supervolcano. Read more
Asteroid (230) Athamantis is at opposition on the 26th May, 2010. Distance to Sun=2.481 AU Distance to Earth=1.468 AU Magnitude=10.2 mag Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2010 05 21 16 17.84 -20 20.8 1.476 2.484 173.5 2.7 10.4 2010 05 26 16 12.87 -19 47.3 1.469 2.481 178.6 0.6...
NGC 4657 (also IRAS 12417 +3228) is a magnitude +12.4 irregular galaxy located 40 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy can be found about 4.5 degrees NE of the star gamma Comae Berenices. The galaxy is a satellite of NGC 4656. Together, they form a galaxy pair, cal...
Title: Exploring the Dust Content of Galactic Winds with Herschel. I. NGC 4631 Author: M. Meléndez, S. Veilleux, C. Martin, C. Engelbracht, J. Bland-Hawthorn, G. Cecil, F. Heitsch, A. McCormick, T. Müller, D. Rupke, S. H. Teng We present a detailed analysis of deep far-infrared observations of th...
NGC 4627 (also Arp 281, UGC 7860, MCG 6-28-19 and PGC 42620) is a magnitude +12.0 dwarf elliptical galaxy located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. NGC 4627 is a satellite of a the much larger galaxy NGC 4631; these two galaxies are listed as Arp 281 in the Atlas of p...
China to launch first high-throughput communications satellite in April China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday. The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20...
Title: Kepler-1649b: An Exo-Venus in the Solar Neighbourhood Author: Isabel Angelo, Jason F. Rowe, Steve B. Howell, Elisa V. Quintana, Martin Still, Andrew W. Mann, Ben Burningham, Thomas Barclay, David R. Ciardi, Daniel Huber, Stephen Kane The Kepler mission has revealed that Earth-sized pla...
The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory, or HAWC, is a facility designed to observe TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays with an instantaneous aperture that covers more than 15% of the sky. With this large field of view, the detector will be exposed to half of the sky during a 24-hour period. [url=h...
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