An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to rev...
Title: MN Draconis - peculiar, active dwarf nova in the period gap Author: K. Bakowska, A. Olech, R. Pospieszynski, E. Swierczynski, F. Martinelli, A. Rutkowski, R. Koff, K. Drozd, M. Butkiewicz-Bak, P. Kankiewicz Context: We present results of an extensive world-wide observing campaign of MN D...
The Great Nebula in Orion is an immense nearby starbirth region. Glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the image, faint wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. [url=http://antwrp.gsf...
Arsia Mons is the southernmost of the Tharsis volcanoes.
It is 434 km in diameter, almost 19 km high, and the summit caldera is 115 miles wide. For comparison, the largest volcano on Earth is Mauna Loa. From its base on the sea floor, Mauna Loa measures only 10 km high and 120 km in dia...
Proton Dripping Tests a Fundamental Force in Nature Like gravity, the strong interaction is a fundamental force of nature. It is the essential "glue" that holds atomic nuclei - composed of protons and neutrons - together to form atoms, the building blocks of nearly all the visible matte...
NGC 4298 (also UGC 7412, MCG 3-32-7, and PGC 39950) is a magnitude +11.3 face-on spiral galaxy located 52 million lights-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. NGC 4298 is close to the magnitude +11.6 face-on edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4302 (PGC 39974) located at a distance of 54 million...
NGC 5091 (also ESO 270-4, MCG -7-27-55 and PGC 46626) is a magnitude +13.1 spiral galaxy located 162 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with the neighbouring galaxy NGC 5090. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John He...
NGC 5082 (also ESO 269-89, MCG -7-27-53 and PGC 46566) is a magnitude +12.8 barred spiral galaxy located 179 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. NGC 5082 is part of the galaxies group consisting of NGC 5090 and NGC 5091 The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Hers...
NGC 5090 (also ESO 270-2, MCG -7-27-54 and PGC 46626) is a magnitude +11.5 elliptical galaxy located 157 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with the neighbouring galaxy NGC 5091. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer Jo...
Title: OGLE-2015-BLG-1482L: the first isolated low-mass microlens in the Galactic bulge Author: S.-J. Chung, W. Zhu, A. Udalski, C.-U. Lee, Y.-H. Ryu, Y. K. Jung, I.-G. Shin, J. C. Yee, K.-H. Hwang, A. Gould, M. Albrow, S.-M. Cha, C. Han, D.-J. Kim, H.-W. Kim, S.-L. Kim, Y.-H. Kim, Y. Lee, B.-G. Park...
Title: The curious case of PDS 11: a nearby, >10 Myr old, classical T Tauri binary system Author: Blesson Mathew (1), P. Manoj (1), B. C. Bhatt (2), D. K. Sahu (2), G. Maheswar (3), S. Muneer (2) ((1) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, (2) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, (3) Aryabhatta Rese...
Scrambling Saturn's B-ring Clumpy particles in Saturn's B-ring provide stark contrast to the delicately ordered ringlets seen in the rest of this view presented by the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn's B-ring is the largest and brightest of the gas giant's rings, the outer portion of which is seen in t...
Falcon 9 to launch from NASA launchpad used for 1st Moon mission next week After more than five years, the historic launch pad has a rocket on it again. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has gone vertical at U.S. space agency NASA's historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) for the first time. According to the Calif...
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