Title: Protecting the Dark Skies of Chile: Initiatives, Education and Coordination Author: Guillermo A. Blanc (Carnegie Observatories, Universidad de Chile) During the next decade, Chile will consolidate its place as the 'World Capital of Astronomy'. By 2025, more than 70% of the world's infr...
NGC 5754 (also Arp 297, SDSS J144519.64+384352.3, UGC 9505 and PGC 52686) is a magnitude +13.1 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 208 ±15 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The galaxy is a member of the Arp 297 interacting galaxy group: NGC 5752, NGC 5753, NGC 5754, NGC 5755...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the EchoStar 23 satellite is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, at 05:04 to 07:34 GMT, 30th January 2017 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the EchoStar 23 communications satellite for EchoStar Corp. EchoStar 23, based on a spare platform from...
Title: The unusual UV continuum of quasar Ton 34 and the possibility of crystalline dust absorption Authors: Luc Binette, Yair Krongold Luminous quasars are known to display a sharp steepening of the continuum near 1100A. This spectral feature is not well fitted by current accretion disk models,...
Title: Photometry of the long period dwarf nova GY Hya Author: Albert Bruch, Berto Monard Although comparatively bright, the cataclysmic variable GY Hya has not attracted much attention in the past. As part of a project to better characterize such systems photometrically, we observed light curv...
Title: WISE J080822.18-644357.3 - a 45 Myr-old accreting M dwarf hosting a pre-transitional disc Author: Simon J. Murphy (University of New South Wales), Eric E. Mamajek (JPL, University of Rochester), Cameron P. M. Bell (AIP) WISE J080822.18-644357.3 (WISE J0808-6443) was recently identifi...
Younger Dryas (YD) Impact AGU Press ConferenceNorth American Comet Catastrophe 10,900 BC Part 1 09:54 American Geophysical Union Press Conference, Acapulco, Mexico, May 23, 200...
The 28 - 62 metre wide asteroid 2017 EE4 will make a close pass (7.0 LD, 0.0181 AU) travelling at 12.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th March 2017 @ 06:31 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
New Zealand river first in the world to be given legal human status A river in New Zealand has become the first in the world to be granted the same legal rights as a person. The New Zealand parliament passed the bill recognising the Whanganui River, in North Island, as a living entity. Long revered by New...
Vanuatu the volcano, on the remote South Pacific island of Ambae, erupted on Thursday - shooting steam and toxic gases 9,845 feet into the sky.
Ash was spewed above the Island to reach the greatest height seen since Mount Manaro, which cradles a volcanic lake in its crater, began eruptin...
Farewell to Sentinel- 2B Just weeks before Sentinel-2B is packed up and sent to French Guiana for its launch next March, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe's Copernicus programme. At an event held at ESA's site in the Netherlands - where the sa...
Title: Deep Chandra Monitoring Observations of NGC 3379: Catalogue of Source Properties Authors: N. J. Brassington, G. Fabbiano, D.-W. Kim, A. Zezas, S. Zepf, A. Kundu, L. Angelini, R. L. Davies, J. Gallagher, V. Kalogera, T. Fragos, A. R. King, S. Pellegrini, G. Trinchieri We present the propert...
Stars are round - that's the received wisdom. But Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo, is shaped like a pumpkin. That's because it is spinning so fast it can barely hold itself together. Now we may know why it whirls so quickly: another star dumped material onto it millions of years ag...
NGC 3153 (also IRAS 10101+1254, Todd 20, MCG 2-26-32, UGC 5505 and PGC 29747) is a magnitude +12.8 inclined spiral galaxy located 129 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 specul...
Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is "choking" on a sudden influx of stellar debris. In a paper published today in Astrophysical Journal Lette...
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