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Comet P/2013 R3 (Catalina-PANSTARRS) is at Opposition (1.234 AU) on the 4th October, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 10 01 00 42 49.0 +05 25 08 1.2319 2.2316 175.8 1.9 17.9 2013 10 02 00 42 04.0 +05 20 55 1.2324 2.2325 176.9 1.4 17.9 2013 10 03 00 41 18.8 +05 16 41 1.2...

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The UK government is to invest 108m euros (£73.2m) to give Britain a major share in building the robotic probe for Europe's next mission to Mars. The European Space Agency (Esa) member states approved funding for the ExoMars mission at the agency's ministerial meeting in Berlin. [...

ExoMars: Rover scientists to study Mawrth Vallis option Europe is going to investigate a second site on Mars as a possible destination to send its 2021 rover. Scientists spent two days considering the options and plumped in the end for Mawrth Vallis - an area rich in clay minerals that must have forme...

Real time tracking of the International Space Station with pass predictions for when and where to actually see the space station pass overhead. Read more

Deep Sky Browser for the iphone This app gives you access to the Digital Sky Survey with more than 45,000 celestial objects Read more

Title: Remarks to the article: New Light on the Invention of the Achromatic Telescope Objective Author: Igor Nesterenko The article analysis was carried out within the confines of the replication project of the telescope, which was used by Mikhail Lomonosov at observation the transit of Venus in...

Satellite images acquired by ESA’s Envisat satellite have revealed the volcanic region of the Phlegrean Fields, located in southern Italy near the city of Naples, has entered a new uplift phase. Using Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR), scientists at the Institute for the Electroma...

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Jack David "2fish" Fischer (born January 23, 1974) is an American test pilot and a NASA astronaut. Read more

NuSTAR Probes Puzzling Galaxy Merger A supermassive black hole inside a tiny galaxy is challenging scientists' ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is the name of a system consisting of a large disk galaxy, referred to as Was 49a, merging with a much smaller "dwarf" galaxy ca...

Solid gold coin worth $4m stolen from Berlin museum A giant gold coin bearing the Queen's image, and worth $4m (£3.2m), has been stolen from a museum in Germany. The Canadian coin, nicknamed the "big maple leaf", has a face value of $1m - but because it is 100kg of pure 24-carat gold, its value is much hig...

Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes Observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the first confirmed observations of stars forming in th...

India's Team Indus is one of five groups in race to put a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon. Read more

Title: The ultracompact nature of the black hole candidate X-ray binary 47 Tuc X9 Author: Arash Bahramian, Craig O. Heinke, Vlad Tudor, James C.A. Miller-Jones, Slavko Bogdanov, Thomas J. Maccarone, Christian Knigge, Gregory R. Sivakoff, Laura Chomiuk, Jay Strader, Javier A. Garcia, Timothy K...