* Astronomy

Tune your radio: galaxies sing while forming stars A team of astronomers led by Fatemeh Tabatabaei from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), including scientists from two Max Planck institutes (MPIfR, Bonn and MPIA, Heidelberg), has measured the radio emission for a large sample of ga...

Asteroid (26) Proserpina is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by R. Luther on May 5, 1853. It is named after the Roman goddess Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres and the Queen of the Underworld. Read more EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2...

Title: Northwest Africa 5958: a weakly altered CM-related ungrouped chondrite, not a CI3 Author: Emmanuel Jacquet, Jean-Alix Barrat, Pierre Beck, Florent Caste, Jérôme Gattacceca, Corinne Sonzogni, Matthieu Gounelle Northwest Africa (NWA) 5958 is a carbonaceous chondrite found in Morocco...

It was a small gesture towards righting a 90-year-old wrong: to the sound of a South African naval band, a wreath was yesterday cast into the waters off the Isle of Wight on the south coast of England, which swallowed more than 600 young African lives in the small hours of February 21, 1917. The SS Mendi,...

Le clash du Dragon La galaxie spirale NGC 5907, dans la constellation du Dragon, serait née d'une collision-fusion majeure survenue il y a 8 à 9 milliards d'années. C'est la conclusion que tirent six chercheurs de l'Observatoire de Paris, du CNRS, de l'Académie des sciences chinoise et d'Aix-Mars...

Asteroid (6196) 1991 UO4 is now named after Dr Bernard Bowen

A grand ceremony was held in Qufu, east China's Shandong Province, on Monday to commemorate the 2,560th birthday of Confucius, the great ancient Chinese thinker and philosopher revered around the world. Read more

ATel 10100: ASASSN-17co: Discovery of A Supernova in UGC 11128

ATel 9658: Confirmation of TCP J18102829-2729590 in Sagittarius as a classical nova in the optically thick stage

Title: X-ray emission and absorption features during an energetic thermonuclear X-ray burst from IGR J17062-6143 Authors: N. Degenaar, J. M. Miller, R. Wijnands, D. Altamirano, A. C. Fabian Type-I X-ray bursts are thermonuclear explosions occurring in the surface layers of accreting neutron...

Research ship Polarstern returns from Antarctica - investigations of changes in Weddell Sea habitat The research vessel Polarstern of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association will arrive back at its homeport of Bremerhaven after a seven-month exp...

Gamma Sextantis (8 Sextantis, HD 85558, HIP 48437, SAO 137199 and HR 3909) is a triple star system in the constellation Sextans. The triple star system comprises of a close binary pair of white dwarfs (stellar classification A1), and a more distant companion. The two Gamma Sextantis A and B componen...

ATel 10098: UV/Optical discovery of a Possible Nova in M31

The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2017 DB will make a close pass in the constellation Taurus (1.83 LD, 0.0047 AU) travelling at 8.10 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th February 2017 @ 16:34 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 k...

Fireball - 2005 February 20 0955 UT A daylight event on a clear, cold Sunday morning, widely seen across southern England from Essex to Cornwall and the Bristol area, and south Wales. Read more