* Astronomy

The Last Quarter Moon and Jupiter captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Canon EOS350D.

Anniversary of the Discovery of the Sayh al Uhaymir 090 Mars meteorite on the 19th January, 2002

Title: SETIBURST: A Robotic, Commensal, Realtime Multi-Science Backend for the Arecibo Telescope Author: Jayanth Chennamangalam, David MacMahon, Jeff Cobb, Aris Karastergiou, Andrew P. V. Siemion, Kaustubh Rajwade, Wes Armour, Vishal Gajjar, Duncan R. Lorimer, Maura A. McLaughlin, Dan We...

Title: The Distribution of Basaltic Asteroids in the Main Belt Authors: Nicholas A. Moskovitz (1), Robert Jedicke (1), Eric Gaidos (2 and 3), Mark Willman (1), David Nesvorny (4), Ronald Fevig (5), Zeljko Ivezic (6) ((1) Institute for Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii, (2) Dept. of Geology & Geophys...

Title: The dynamical stability of W Ursae Majoris-type systems Authors: Lifang Li, Fenghui Zhang Theoretical study indicates that a contact binary system would merge into a rapidly rotating single star due to tidal instability when the spin angular momentum of the system is more than a third of it...

ATel 9621: MASTER-OAFA discovery: 9mag amplitude outburst in SMC

Computational scientists and geophysicists at the University of Texas at Austin and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed new computer algorithms that for the first time allow for the simultaneous modelling of the earth's Earth's mantle flow, large-scale tectonic p...

Happy birthday to Colo: Oldest gorilla in US turns 60 She is a mother of three, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 12 and great-great-grandmother of three. She recently had surgery to remove a malignant tumor, but doctors say she's doing well. She's Colo, the nation's oldest living gorilla, a...

Fourth Galileo satellite reaches French Guiana launch site The next two Galileo satellites are now in place at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, being prepared for their shared launch this autumn. The fourth Galileo satellite flight model arrived at Cayenne Airport in French Guiana on Friday...

China to launch first Beidou-3 navigation satellite Chinese navigation satellite Beidou-3 is scheduled to be launched in July 2017, according to its developer, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The company claimed that six to eight satellites will be deployed within...

Sunspot 12626 and 12625 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

NGC 2365 (also UGC 3821, MCG 4-18-8 and PGC 20838) is a magnitude +12.7 spiral galaxy located 105 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector in Malta on the 10th November 1864. Right Asce...

Expand (362kb, 1024 x 768)Exposure: 10 sec Time: 5:20 UT, 10 Sept 2007

Expand (362kb, 1024 x 768)Exposure: 10 sec Time: 5:20 UT, 10 Sept 2007

The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 (and Sh2-277) is an emission nebula in the Constellation Orion. It is about 900 to 1,500 light-years away. Read more

Mars and Taurus Expand (510kb, 1024 x 768) Time: 2:30 GMT 14th August 2007 Exposure: 20 seconds