NGC 2996 (also ESO 566-12, MCG -3-25-22 and PGC 28049) is a magnitude +12.7 lenticular galaxy located 403 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Feldhausen, Claremo...
By using new, high spatial resolution infrared data from NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft, Victoria Hamilton from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Philip Christensen from Arizona State University have concluded that a region on the surface of Mars known to contain olivine-rich rocks...
Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba A discovery of well-preserved fossil plants by paleontologists from the United States, China, Japan, Russia and Mongolia has allowed researchers to identify a distant relative of the living plant Ginkgo biloba. The find helps scientists b...
NGC 4918 (also PGC 44934) is a magnitude +14.4 spiral galaxy located 452 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. In the sky it can be found roughly 5' northeast of the galaxy NGC 4915, and to the south of the magnitude +10.95 star TYC 4960-1086-1. The galaxy was discovered by American ast...
The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2017 EF will make a close pass (7.4 LD, 0.0191 AU) travelling at 9.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th March 2017 @ 07:00 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
NGC 2960 (also Markarian 1419, IRAS 09380+0348, MCG 1-25-9, UGC 5159 and PGC 27619) is a magnitude +12.4 spiral galaxy located 264 ±32 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy has an active nucleus, and is probably a LINER type. The galaxy was discovered by British astronome...
Title: The shadow knows: using shadows to investigate the structure of the pretransitional disk of HD 100453 Author: Zachary C. Long, Rachel B. Fernandes, Michael Sitko, Kevin Wagner, Takayuki Muto, Jun Hashimoto, Katherine Follette, Carol A. Grady, Misato Fukagawa, Yasuhiro Hasegawa, Jacqu...
Title: The Minimum of Solar Cycle 23: As Deep as It Could Be? Author: Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, Ryan R. Senkpeil, Dana W. Longcope, Andrey G. Tlatov, Alexei A. Pevtsov, Laura A. Balmaceda, Edward E. DeLuca, Petrus C. H. Martens In this work we introduce a new way of binning sunspot group data with the pu...
Astronomers have published an image of the coolest planet outside our solar system that has been pictured directly. The new find is more similar to our own Solar System than prior pictured exoplanets, in terms of the parent star's type and the planet's size. In two observations in May and August, an i...
North Korea: Four ballistic missiles fired into sea North Korea has launched four ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. Three of them fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a "new stage of threat". They were fired fr...
NGC 2693 (also UGC 4674, MCG 9-15-55, ZWG 264.35, and PGC 25144) is a magnitude +11.7 elliptical galaxy located 227 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. In the sky it is adjacent to the smaller galaxy NGC 2694. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Her...
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