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NGC 4651 (also UGC 7901, Arp 189 and PGC 42833) is a magnitude +10.6 inclined spiral galaxy located 35 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Datchet...

Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 - November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Read more

ATel 9912: MASTER Independent Detection: Possible Nova in M31

Meteor Showers There are many meteor showers this month... The Geminid Meteors Shower Peaks on the night of the 13th-14th. The Coma Berenicids are a poorly-known minor shower, and badly need more observing. Very swift meteors, (65km/sec). Their Radiant is at RA 11h40m Dec +25°. Ursids Mete...

Expand (127kb, 1024 x 768) Date 2:10 GMT, 16th October, 2009. The constellation Gemini with Mars

Date: 28th December 2016

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Expand (130kb, 1024 x 768) Date: 00:55 GMT, 17 September, 2007 Exposure: 10 seconds Capella ( Aurigae) is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga and eleventh brightest star in the sky. Although it appe...

China's new satellite for civilian hi-res mapping put into business operation China has handed over control of Ziyuan III 02, a new civilian high-resolution mapping satellite, to its user. Control of the satellite was passed to its main user, the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping an...

Arp 147: Giant Ring of Black Holes Credit X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/S.Rappaport et al Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring -- not of jewels -- but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light years from Earth, show...

The Hachi-oji (H?) meteorite fell in Kanto, Japan, on the 29th December, 1817. A total mass of 0.2 g was recovered. 35° 39'N, 139° 20'E

ATel 9905: MASTER-OAFA discovery: PSN in GALEX galaxy

China launches high-resolution remote sensing satellites China launched a pair of 0.5-meter high-resolution remote sensing satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province on Wednesday. The satellites, SuperView-1 01/02, blasted off at 11:23 a.m. Beijing time on the b...

Asteroid 323 Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography in 1891 Read more

Orbital elements: C/2011 S1 (Gibbs) T 2013 Jan. 16.53738 TT MPC q 4.9878456 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 174.64609 +0.71235679 -0.70118411 Node 229.92249 +0.64245035 +0.66860713 e 1.0 Incl. 2.23274 +0.28249840 +0.24759919 From 22 observations 2011 Sept. 18-21. MPEC 2011 - S28 Comet C/2011 S1 (GI...