* Astronomy

New Triton statue unveiled A new statue of Triton has been put outside the Radcliffe Humanities building this week, to replace the old statue which is being restored. Read more

The BT Tower is a tall cylindrical building in London, United Kingdom, located at 60 Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia W1T 4JZ, London Borough of Camden. It has been previously known as the Post Office Tower, the London Telecom Tower and the British Telecom Tower. The tower was topped out on 15 July 1964 an...

Native Americans' Day - Monday, October 8, 2012

Native Americans' Day - Monday, October 8, 2012

He is probably the only Missourian with both a crater on Mars and an asteroid named after him. See more

A possible magnitude 16 supernova was discovered on the 5th February, 2010, in the barred irregular galaxy NGC4214 in the constellation Canes Venatici. The supernova is located 20" East and 27" North from the center of the galaxy. Position (2000): RA 12 15 41.06, Dec +36 20 02.9

Title: The hot-Jupiter Kepler-17b: discovery, obliquity from stroboscopic starspots, and atmospheric characterisation Authors: Jean-Michel Désert, David Charbonneau, Brice-Olivier Demory, Sarah Ballard, Joshua A. Carter, Jonathan J. Fortney, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Samuel...

Title: Discovery and spectroscopic study of the massive Galactic cluster Mercer 81 Authors: Diego de la Fuente, Francisco Najarro, Ben Davies, Donald F. Figer During the last decade, hundreds of young massive cluster candidates have been detected in the disk of the Milky Way. We investigate one o...

Ejnar Hertzsprung (8 October 1873 - 21 October 1967) was a Danish chemist and astronomer. Read more

The discovery of a new comet, C/2009 F4 (McNaught), was announced by Rob Mc Naught (Siding Spring Survey) on the 19th March, 2009. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 31st December, 2011 at a distance of approximately 5.4 AU from the Sun. [url=http://w...

The 240 - 530 metre wide asteroid 2004 UB will make a close pass (77.6 lunar distances, 0.1995 AU), travelling at 14.65 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October, 2012 @ 23:13 UT ±1 day 15:10. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from 8 October to 1 November, 451 AD, at Chalcedon (a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor), on the Asian side of the Bosporus. This was a highly influential council and marked a key turning point in the Christological debates that broke apart the church of th...

The 2005 Kashmir earthquake was a major earthquake centered in Pakistan-administered Kashmir known as Azad Kashmir, near the city of Muzaffarabad, affecting Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Read more

Why every country in Africa should have a research telescope. One way is the One Telescope Project, to be launched next month. We aim to put one research telescope in every country, starting with African and Southern Hemisphere nations. There are 54 African countries but only three with telescopes...

Mount Lokon, together with Mount Empung, is a twin volcano (2.2 km apart) in the northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Read more

The moon captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam. Music via an Amiga 1200