* Astronomy

Title: Albedos of Small Hilda Group Asteroids as Revealed by Spitzer Authors: Erin Lee Ryan, Charles E. Woodward We present thermal 24 \mu m observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope of 62 Hilda asteroid group members with diameters ranging from 3 to 12 kilometres. Measurements of the thermal...

Title: Brightness variations of the FUor-type eruptive star V346 Nor Author: A. Kóspál, P. Abrahám, Ch. Westhues, M. Haas Decades after the beginning of its FU Orionis-type outburst, V346 Nor unexpectedly underwent a fading event of delta K = 4.6 mag around 2010. We obtained near-infrared observ...

Thunderstorm numbers calculated The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated. The figure, unveiled at the European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, is substantially lower than numbers that have been used for nearly a century. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk...

NGC 7457 (also UGC 12306, MCG +5-54-26, PGC 70258) is a magnitude of +11.0 elliptical galaxy located 37 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galactic center is very compact, with a density of the stars 30,000 times greater than the area where our Sun is located in the Milky Way....

ATel 9925: Spectroscopic Classification of SN 2016jft as a Young Type II Supernova

ATel 9918: ASASSN-16pk and ASASSN-16pl: Discovery of Two Probable Supernovae

I heard that a new comet was discovered today. Is this true, does anyone know?

12 image stack of Mars, the Moon and Venus.

The St. Mark's (EH5) meteorite fell in Eastern Cape, South Africa, on the 3rd January, 1903. A total mass of 13.78 kg was recovered. 32° 1'S, 27° 25'E

Title: KIC 11401845: An Eclipsing Binary with Multiperiodic Pulsations and Light Travel Time Author: Jae Woo Lee, Kyeongsoo Hong, Seung-Lee Kim, Jae-Rim Koo We report the Kepler photometry of KIC 11401845 displaying multiperiodic pulsations, superimposed on binary effects. Light-curve syn...

Title: Three planets orbiting Wolf 1061 Author: D.J. Wright, R.A. Wittenmyer, C.G. Tinney, J.S. Bentley, Jinglin Zhao We use archival HARPS spectra to detect three planets orbiting the M3 dwarf Wolf1061 (GJ 628). We detect a 1.36 Mearth minimum-mass planet with an orbital period P = 4.888d (Wolf1...

Maggie Philbin (born 23 June 1955) is an English radio and television presenter whose credits include Tomorrow's World and Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Read more

NGC 7752 (also UGC 12779, MCG 5-56-4, ARP 86 and PGC 72382) is a magnitude +15.0 barred lenticular galaxy and satellite galaxy of NGC 7753 located approximately 233 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Together with the interacting companion NGC 7753, it is catalogued as Arp 86 i...

NGC 7753 (also UGC 12780, MCG 5-56-5, IRAS 23445 +2911, Arp 86 and PGC 72387) is a magnitude +12.8 barred spiral galaxy with a small nucleus located approximately 233 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Together with the smaller interacting companion NGC 7752, it is catalogued...

Venus and the Moon over Aberdeen