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NGC 1055 (also IRAS 02391+0013, MCG 0-7-81, UGC 2173 and PGC 10208) is a magnitude +11.4 edge-on spiral galaxy located 52 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy can be located about 35' east of Delta Cetus, and close to a pair of magnitude +8.0 stars, HD16835 and HD16786. The...

Progress MS-5 It is planned to be launched on March 1, 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will use the 786th and last Soyuz-U rocket.[ Read more

Blue Eagle 38°39.7'N, 115°31.10'W Blue Eagle Well, Railroad Valley, Nye County, Nevada, United States Find: March 2006 Rumuruti chondrite (R3-6) History: Discovered on a dry lakebed by Ralph Clary, while he was hunting meteorites. Physical characteristics: 31 minimally fusion-crusted frag...

The Oued el Hadjar (LL6) meteorite fell in South, Morocco, sometime in March, 1986. A total mass of 1215.5 g was recovered. 30° 10' 48"N, 6° 34' 38"W

The Itapicuru-Mirim (H5) meteorite fell in Maranhao, Brazil, sometime in March, 1879. A total mass of 2.02 kg was recovered. 3° 24'S, 44° 20'W

NGC 3623 (also Messier 65, M65, IRAS 11163+1322, MCG 2-29-18, Arp 317 and PGC 34612) is a magnitude 9.2 spiral galaxy located 37 million light-years away away in the constellation Leo. M65 is part of the famous "Leo Triplet", a small group of galaxies that also includes M66 and NGC 3628. The Leo Triple...

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V (401 version) with the NROL-79 satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office will launch from Vandenberg into a sun synchronous orbit. The planned NROL-79 launch was scheduled for between 01:00 - 03:00 UT, 27th January 2017. The launch date is under review

Sunspots 12641, 12640 and 12638 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Citizen scientists discover huge galaxy cluster Two volunteer astronomers have had a galaxy cluster named after them after finding the galaxy in an international citizen science project co-led by ANU. The two Russians identified the huge C-shaped galaxy cluster from much smaller images of cosm...

Symbiotic star EF Aql Magnitude range: 12.7 - 15.0 RA 19 51 51.73, Dec -05 48 16.6

Title: Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Ultra-Compact High Velocity Cloud AGC 226067: A stripped remnant in the Virgo Cluster Author: D.J. Sand, A.C. Seth, D. Crnojevic, K. Spekkens, J. Strader, E. A. K. Adams, N. Caldwell, P. Guhathakurta, J. Kenney, S. Randall, J.D. Simon, E. Toloba, B. Wil...

Title: VaST: a variability search toolkit Author: Kirill V. Sokolovsky, Alexandr A. Lebedev Variability Search Toolkit (VaST) is a software package designed to find variable objects in a series of sky images. It relies on source list matching (as opposed to image subtraction) using SExtractor f...

ATel 10136: Asiago spectroscopic classification of SN 2017ati.

ATel 10135: ASASSN-17bw is a Type II Supernova in SBS 1657+505

Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted in late October 2005. In mid-November, it was still emitting a sporadic plume of ash. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) flying onboard the Terra satellite captured this image of Etna on November 12, 2005....