* Astronomy

Asteroid (416) Vaticana is at Opposition in the constellation Virgo at 11:50 UT, 8th April 2017 Magnitude: 10.9 V Distance to Earth: 1.401 AU Distance to Sun: 2.384 AU

22 panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Ancient Dead Galaxy Sets New Record An international team of astronomers has, for the first time, spotted a massive, inactive galaxy from a time when the Universe was only 1.65 billion years old. This rare discovery, made using the world-class W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii, could chan...

GJ 1132b could be 'most important planet found outside solar system' A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say. The planet lies in the constellation of Vela in the southern sky and is close enoug...

ATel 10247: Discovery of the Galactic nova VVV-NOV-020

Microsoft releases details of Project Scorpio console Microsoft has released some of the specifications for its new console - known as Project Scorpio. The software giant shared the details with tech news sites Digital Foundry and Eurogamer. The console has reportedly been designed from the sta...

ATel 10246: Spectroscopic Classification of SN 2017ckp as a Type Ia Supernova

NGC 6067 (also Mel 140, Cr 298, OCL 953, and ESO 178-SC12) is a magnitude +5.6 open cluster located 5,805 ±391 light-years away in the constellation Norma. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 23 cm (9-inch) speculum Newtonian reflector at Parama...

Title: Observations of LSI+61303 with Swift Authors: J. Holder, A. Falcone, D. Morris The TeV emitting high-mass X-ray binary system LSI+61303 was observed with the Swift satellite from early September 2006 to early January 2007. Many of these observations were contemporaneous with TeV observ...

Image of sunspot 12648 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos -- it's a dying star surrounded by fluorescing gas and two very unusual rings. The object, known as NGC 1...

New Measurements Suggest 'Antineutrino Anomaly' Fuelled by Modelling Error Results from a new scientific study may shed light on a mismatch between predictions and recent measurements of ghostly particles streaming from nuclear reactors - the so-called "reactor antineutrino anomaly," whic...

The 45 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2017 FU64 will make a close pass (3.7 LD, 0.0096 AU), travelling at 19.18 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th April 2017 @ 19:16 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Comet C/2017 C1 (NEOWISE) is at Opposition (1.102 AU) on the 6th April 2017

Title: Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of the Algol Type Binary V Triangle Author: A. B. Ren, X. B. Zhang, J. N. Fu, Y. P. Zhang, T. Q. Cang, L. Fox-Machado, C. Q. Li, P. Khokhuntod, Y. P. Luo Time-series, multi-colour photometry and high-resolution spectra of the short period eclipsing...