Roaney Giles said he stepped out onto his back porch at 7 a.m. Sunday in Southwest Austin and got a surprise when he glanced up into the sky. "I saw a huge, white fireball come streaking from the west to the east, and then 10 to 15 seconds later, I was looking at a smoke trail" - Roaney Giles. [url...
Phases of the Moon A lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated (lighted) portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon, and Sun...
Dark sky status set to bring a constellation of stargazers Nine locations on Skye have been officially named "dark sky discovery sites" after they were judged to be perfect spots for stargazing. Experts claim the island is one of the darkest places in Europe and an ideal location to study...
A Chang Zheng-3c rocket body that was launched on the 11th July, 2011, from the Jiuquan lauinch site, for the Tiangong 1B mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th October, 2011 @ 07:34 GMT ± 48 hours.CZ-3C RB
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A 'very likely' magnitude 15.71 supernova was discovered on the 24th October, 2011, in the galaxy SDSS J095847.74+344711.1 in the constellation Leo Minor by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey. The supernova is located 0" east and 0" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the...
Title: The XMM-Newton view of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: the case of IGRJ16418-4532 Authors: L.Sidoli (1), S. Mereghetti (1), V. Sguera (2), F. Pizzolato (1) ((1)-INAF-IASF Milano (Italy), (2)-INAF-IASF Bologna (Italy)) We report on a 40 ks long, uninterrupted X-ray observation of the...
Title: XMM-Newton Observations of Two Candidate Supernova Remnants Authors: O. Kargaltsev, B. M. Schmitt, G. G. Pavlov, Z. Misanovic Candidate supernova remnants G23.5+0.1 and G25.5+0.0 were observed by XMM-Newton in the course of a snap-shot survey of plerionic and composite SNRs in the Gala...
Title: WASP-36b: A new transiting planet around a metal-poor G-dwarf, and an analysis of correlated noise in transit light curves Authors: A. M. S. Smith, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West, S. C. C. B...
HH-222: The Waterfall NebulaCredit: Z. Levay (STScI/AURA/NASA), T.A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage) & H. Schweiker (NOAO/AURA/NSF), KPNO, NOAO The structure seen in the region of NGC 1999 in the Great Orion Molecular Cloud complex is one of the more mysterious structures yet found on the sky....
Henry Norris Russell (October 25, 1877 - February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). In 1923, working with Frederick Saunders, he developed RussellSaunders coupling which is also known as LS coupling. Rea...
David Norman Schramm (25 October 1945 - 19 December 1997) was an American astrophysicist and educator, and one of the world's foremost experts on the Big Bang theory. Schramm was a pioneer in the study of Big Bang nucleosynthesis and its use as a probe of dark matter (both baryonic and non-baryonic) a...
Asteroid (735) Marghanna is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Read more EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. V
2011 09 15 000000 02 42 41.8 +00 36 34 1.054 1.878 131.5 23.6 12.1
2011 09 17 000000 02 42 23.2 +00 49 39 1.042 1.881...
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