The 390 - 860 metre wide asteroid 2003 AL73 will make a close pass (48.2 lunar distances, 0.1238 AU), travelling at 15.31 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 26th May, 2011 @ 11:27 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Dista...
Expedition 26 Soyuz Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre in Star City, Russi...
At Cranbrook, BC, Canada, the College of the Rockies Sandia Sentinel Allsky Camera captured a 9 second fireball at ~ 08:17 UT, 14th May, 2011. Direction North to South. The dark night sky of Cranbrook was lit up like daylight early Saturday morning at 2:17am (Mountain Daylight Time) when a huge meteo...
Atlas of Astronomical Discoveries Schilling, Govert £27.99 Four hundred years ago in Middelburg, in the Netherlands, the telescope was invented. The invention unleashed a revolution in the exploration of the universe. Galileo Galilei discovered mountains on the Moon, spots on the Sun, and moo...
Computer science PhD candidate Dustin Lang has embarked on his own Star Trek as part of astronometry.net, a collaboration between computer scientists at U of T and astronomers at New York University. Under the tagline Making the Sky Searchable, Lang and fellow graduate student Keir Mierle have pu...
Title: Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of the Outburst Site of M31 RV. II. No Blue Remnant in Quiescence Authors: Howard E. Bond (Space Telescope Science Institute) M31 RV is a red transient that erupted in 1988 in the Andromeda bulge, reaching a luminosity intermediate between novae and supernova...
Title: Infrared imaging and polarimetric observations of the pulsar wind nebula in G21.5-0.9 Authors: A. Zajczyk, Y.A. Gallant, P. Slane, S.P. Reynolds, R. Bandiera, C. Gouiffès, E. Le Floc'h, F. Comerón, L. Koch Miramond We present infrared observations of G21.5-0.9 with the Very Large Telesc...
Title: Three new bricks in the wall: Berkeley 23, Berkeley 31, and King 8 Authors: Michele Cignoni (1 and 2), Giacomo Beccari (3), Angela Bragaglia (2), Monica Tosi (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universita' di Bologna, Italy, (2) INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy, (3) ESO,...
Orbital elements: 2009 UO1 Earth MOID = 0.0074 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 68.63084 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52768096 Peri. 107.29412 +0.70366426 +0.70980443 a 1.5166607 Node 207.51397 -0.67548214 +0.65422644 e 0.4690451 Incl. 3.99196 -0.22040983 +0.26108514 P 1.87 H 24.4 G 0.15 U 7 [ur...
Hubble Views the Star that Changed the Universe Though the universe is filled with billions upon billions of stars, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been trained on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at least one famous astronomer of the time lamented t...
Multiple Planets Transiting Same Star Discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission NASA has announced the discovery of two Saturn-size planets, as well as one likely Earth-size planet, all transiting a star called Kepler 9. This is the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet transitin...
NASA Donates Equipment for Pine Brook School "Star and Space Week" Students "learn with their hands" through telescopes, sun spotters, lunar rocks, meteorites and a blow-up planetarium! Sixth grade centre Pine Brook School hosted Star and Space Week from Monday, May 16 th...
Galactic Fountain of YouthCredit NASA This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the edge-on profile of the slender spiral galaxy NGC 5775. Although the spiral is tilted away from us, with only a thin slither on view, such a perspective can be advantageous for astronomers because the region...
USS Sailfish (SS-192), a Sargo-class submarine, was originally named Squalus. Due to mechanical failure, Squalus sank during a test dive on 23 May 1939. She was raised, renamed, and recommissioned on 15 May 1940 as Sailfish. Read more
China fossil shows bird, crocodile family trees split earlier than thought A fossil unearthed in China in the 1970s of a creature that died about 247 million years ago, originally thought to be a distant relative of both birds and crocodiles, turns out to have come from the crocodile family tree afte...
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