* Astronomy

Title: FSR 1716: A new Milky Way Globular Cluster confirmed using VVV RR Lyrae stars Author: Dante Minniti, Tali Palma, Istvan Dékány, Maren Hempel, Marina Rejkuba, Joyce Pullen, Javier Alonso-García, Rodolfo Barbá, Beatriz Barbuy, Eduardo Bica, Charles Bonatto, Jura Borissova, Marcio Catel...

ATel 10149: Fermi LAT Detection of a new gamma-ray source Fermi J0713+5739

California earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay area An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 has shaken northern California, causing injuries and damage to buildings. The USGS said it struck at 03:20 local time (10:20 GMT) four miles (6km) north-west of the town of American Canyon, at a depth of 6.7 m...

NGC 3287 (also IRAS10320 + 2154, MCG 4-25-32, UGC 5742 and PGC 31311) is a magnitude +12.3 barred spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. In the sky it can be found roughly 32' southwest of the magnitude +10.8 galaxy NGC 3301. The galaxy was discovered by Dani...

Cassini co-investigator Dr. Tobias C. Owen studies the origin and composition of planetary atmospheres and comets. An alumnus of the University of Chicago and professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii, Owen uses ground-based telescopes and spectrometers as well as remote sensing and i...

A blank looking eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Asteroid (41) Daphne is at opposition on the 14th September, 2009. Magnitude: 11.3 Distance to Earth: 2.0595 AU Distance to Sun: 3.0646 AU Position(2000): RA 23h27m45.97s, Dec -00°38'47.1" Rise : 19:07 Azimuth:+90°13' Culmination : 1:08 Set ...

Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, California, has begun major, delicate surgery. The operation on the historic 70-metre-wide antenn...

Cassiopeia's Hidden Gem: The Closest Rocky, Transiting Planet Skygazers at northern latitudes are familiar with the W-shaped star pattern of Cassiopeia the Queen. This circumpolar constellation is visible year-round near the North Star. Tucked next to one leg of the W lies a modest 5th-magnitu...

A total solar eclipse occurred on August 11, 1999 with an eclipse magnitude of 1.029. The path of the moon's shadow began in the Atlantic Ocean and, before noon, was traversing Cornwall, Devon, northern France, Belgium, Luxembourg, southern Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, and nor...

NASA Releasing First Ever Spacecraft Orbital Views Of Mercury NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 16, to reveal new images and science findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. The event will be held in the NASA Headquarters auditorium located at 300 E St. SW, in...

UA Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn't Be There An international team of astronomers, led by a University of Arizona graduate student, has discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. It is the first exoplanet - a planet outside of our solar sy...

First Pictures of Earth From 100 Miles in Space, 1947 On March 7, 1947, not long after the end of World War II and years before Sputnik ushered in the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful in these grainy black-and-white-photos - the first...

Orbital elements: C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) T 2015 Feb. 14.86486 TT MPC q 1.7767515 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 356.34692 -0.24290752 -0.19042558 Node 104.74674 +0.91307187 -0.37598674 e 1.0 Incl. 79.60067 +0.32756022 +0.90684732 From 23 observations 2014 Aug. 17-19. MPEC 2014 - Q10

Title: Early stages of cluster formation: fragmentation of massive dense cores down to ~1000 AU Authors: Aina Palau, Asunción Fuente, Josep M. Girart, Robert Estalella, Paul T. P. Ho, Álvaro Sánchez-Monge, Francesco Fontani, Gemma Busquet, Benoît Commercon, Patrick Hennebelle, Jérémie Bois...