* Astronomy

ATel 10077: Spectral classification of AT2017acd as a type Ia supernova

ATel 10078: Confirmation with the SALT telescope of a young Type Ia supernova at z=0.046 discovered during the "Deeper Wider Faster" program

Title: Orbital Phase Variations of the Eccentric Giant Planet HAT-P-2b Authors: Nikole K. Lewis, Heather A. Knutson, Adam P. Showman, Nicolas B. Cowan, Gregory Laughlin, Adam Burrows, Drake Deming, Justin R. Crepp, Kenneth J. Mighell, Eric Agol, Gáspár Á. Bakos, David Charbonneau, Jean-Miche...

Isro adds another passenger to the PSLV-C37 mission, 104 satellite launch rescheduled to mid February In a path-breaking move, ISRO centres here are focussed on the next commercial launch of a record 104 satellites at one go on board its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) from Sriharikota...

Archaeologists have unearthed the largest Neolithic female figurine ever found in Italy, according to a press report . The 7,000-year-old stone statuette, discovered during excavations of a burial site near the northern Italian city of Parma, is over 20 centimetres tall. [url=http://a...

Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars Stars are forming in the Phoenix cluster at the highest rate ever observed for the middle of a galaxy cluster. The object also is the most powerful producer of X-rays of any known cluster and among the most massive. The data also suggest the rate of hot g...

Title: NU-SETI: A Proposal to Detect Extra-Terrestrial Signals Carried by Neutrinos Author: Ephraim Fischbach, John T. Gruenwald Recent observations of changes in radioactive decay rates associated with the annual variation of the Earth-Sun distance, with solar rotation, and particularly...

On the 17th October, 2008, the Swift satellite detected increased activity in the 15-50 keV band for the transient pulsar and High Mass X-ray Binary V0332+53. The Be/neutron star system contains the variable BQ Cam, which the optical counterpart of the X-ray binary source V0332+53. Spin Period: ...

ATel 10074: MASTER-SAAO: PSN in PGC152788 and OT

NGC 2022 (also HD 37882, GC 1225, IRAS 05393+0903, PN G196.6-10.9, and PK 196-10 1) is a magnitude +12.8 planetary nebula located about 7,000 light-years away in the constellation Orion. Its central class O8V star is HD 37882 with a magnitude of +7.2 In an 8-inch telescope and dark skies it appears as...

Astronomers have discovered a population of what appear to be young star clusters where they aren't supposed to be. The newborn stars appear to have formed in the debris of the NGC 2782 galaxy collision -- debris that lacks what astronomers believe are some important ingredients needed to f...

ATel 5810; Fermi/GBM Detection of 0.467s Pulsation from GRO J1744-28. The Bursting Pulsar (GRO J1744-28) is a low-mass x-ray binary with a period of 11.8 days. It was discovered in December 1995 by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Read more

Construction of World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Moves Forward LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another approval milestone and is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt f...

NGC 3242 (also known as the Ghost of Jupiter, PK 261 32,1, ESO 568-PN5 and Caldwell 59) is a magnitude +8.6 planetary nebula located 1400 light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The nebula is easily seen in amateur telescopes and looks to most observers as a bluish-green blob. The central sta...

The Bachmut (L6) meteorite fell in Donetsk, Ukraine, on the 15th February, 1814. A total mass of 18 kg was recovered. 48° 36'N, 38° 0'E