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Telkom 3S set to launch on Valentine's Day The Telkom 3S communications satellite is set to launch on Valentines Day, Feb. 14, between 6:39 p.m. to 8:05 p.m., local time, from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, South America. Read more Ed ~ Launch of the Intelsat 32e/Sky Brasil 1 and Te...

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Space observatory's detector technology goes into single-molecule imaging Since 1999, Yoshiyuki Takizawa has been working on the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO), an international project to develop a super wide-field telescope capable of observing large volumes of Earth's atmos...

ATel 10071: PNV J16521887-3754189 is a New Galactic Nova in Scorpius

ATel 10070: USNO-A2.0 1200-1153830 is a binary star with a total eclipse with sharp transitions

The Shiva crater is a hypothesised impact crater located in the Indian Ocean west of India. It has been suggested that it formed around 65 million years ago, the same time as a number of other impacts that are recorded in the K-T boundary. The Deccan Traps are located in the theorised centre o...

The Dhala structure is a newly discovered impact structure in central India, that had an estimated diameter of 15 km. Proterozoic age impact occurred in the western fringe of Bundelkhand craton, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, India. The impact structure has unequivocal evidences of diag...

406 Erna is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a P-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous chondritic materials. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on August 22, 1895 in Nice. Source

Title: The meteor of January 22, 1918 Authors: Truman, O. H. Numerous accounts have appeared in the papers of the great meteor which was seen over Iowa and Missouri the evening of Tuesday January 22, 1918. Read more

IM Normae (Nova Normae 1920) is a magnitude +18.5 eclipsing symbiotic-type recurrent nova located in the constellation Norma. The recurrent nova has only been seen in outburst on two occasions; as a magnitude +9.0 star recorded on a photographic plate exposed on the 6th July 1920 by I. E. Woods at Ha...

ATel 10068: MASTER: PKS 1142-225 optical flare

Hubble Witnesses Massive Comet-Like Object Pollute Atmosphere of a White Dwarf Astronomers have found the first evidence of the remains of a comet-like object scattered around a burned-out star. They used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to detect the debris, which has polluted the atmosphere of a...

Title: A cool R Coronae Borealis star Z UMi Authors: Tonu Kipper (1), Valentina Klochkova (2) ((1) - Tartu Observatory, Toravere, Estonia; (2) - Special Astrophysical Observatory RAS, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia) The high resolution spectra of a R CrB type star Z UMi are analysed. The atmospheric para...

The Little Piney (l5) meteorite fell in Missouri, USA, on the 13th February, 1839. A total mass of 491 g was recovered. 37° 55'N, 92° 5'W

Whenever you visit a beach resort or sea side town, you will also find plenty of sea shells for sale. But a group of scientists went looking in a very different location They were rewarded with the discovery of marine fossils in land locked Sichuan province. The fossils are the remains of ancient sea l...