* Astronomy

Title: A hot Jupiter around the very active weak-line T Tauri star TAP 26 Author: L. Yu, J.-F. Donati, E. M. Hébrard, C. Moutou, L. Malo, K. Grankin, G. Hussain, A. Collier Cameron, A. A. Vidotto, C. Baruteau, S. H. P. Alencar, J. Bouvier, P. Petit, M. Takami, G. Herczeg, S. G. Gregory, M. Jardine, J. Mor...

Title: Extremely Red Submillimeter Galaxies: New z>~4-6 Candidates Discovered using ALMA and Jansky VLA Author: Soh Ikarashi (1), R. J. Ivison (2 and 3), Karina I. Caputi (1), Koichiro Nakanishi (4, 5 and 6), Claudia D. P. Lagos (7), M. L. N. Ashby (8), Itziar Aretxaga (9), James S. Dunlop (2), Bu...

China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A The rocket Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) has sent three satellites into space in its first commercial mission on Monday. The rocket, carrying the satellite JL-1 and two CubeSats XY-S1 and Caton-1, blasted off from northwestern China's Jiuquan Satel...

NGC 1624 (also Collinder 53, LBN 722, Lund 136 and OCL 403) is a magnitude +11.8 open cluster with nebulosity located 14,954 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflect...

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The Stretchleigh (Stone) meteorite fell in England, UK, on the 10th January, 1623. A total mass of 10.4 kg was recovered. 50° 23'N, 3° 57'W

Moon 07.01.17; 15 panel photomoasic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. Prime focus. Cloudy Sky, hazy.

Transit 9 was a US Navy navigation satellite launched by a Scout X-4 rocket. It carried a nuclear power source. Transit, one of the first operational satellite systems, was also known as the Navy Navigation Satellite (NNS). Read more

NOAA-16 was decommissioned on 9 June 2014 after a critical anomaly. On 25 November 2015, at 08:16, the JSpOC identified a possible breakup of NOAA 16 (#26536). Read more

Prehistoric 'Calendar Rock' Found In Sicily Archaeologists have found a Stonehenge-like "calendar rock" in Gela, on the southern coast of Sicily, that they say was used as a prehistoric sundial to measure seasons and years during the Bronze Age. The man-made megalith was found eight kilometres f...

The Okniny (LL6) meteorite fell in Volyn, Ukraine, on the 8th January, 1834. A total mass of 12 kg was recovered. 50° 50'N, 25° 30'E

Asteroid (60) Echo is at opposition on the 22nd February, 2010. (V = 10.2) Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2010 02 05 10 35.27 +03 56.9 1.106 2.048 156.5 11.0 10.6 2010 02 10 10 31.50 +04 24.8 1.093 2.056 162.5 8.3 10.5 2010 02 15 10 27.30 +04 57.0 1.086 2.064 168.5 5.5 10.3 2010 02 20...

Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporised Rock, Hot Lava Flying NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as Mercury, slamm...

ATel 9948: ASASSN-17ae: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in 2MASX J16170338+1041359

Using a computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the termination shock, the spherical shell around the solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. According to W...