* Astronomy

Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Search for Natural Quasicrystals Over the course of the last year, through a remarkable investigation to be described elsewhere, we have traced the history to show that our sample was, in fact, originally attached to the holotype material; the rock was discovered...

ATel 9837: ASASSN-16oo: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in 2MASX J01411858-0012382

ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton joins the fleet of spacecraft taking part in one of the world’s largest astronomical observation campaigns - the Deep Impact event – on 4 July 2005. On 4 July, NASA’s Deep Impact mission will send a 370 kg copper projectile (impactor) to impa...

NGC 613 (also ESO 413-11, MCG -5-4-44 and PGC 5849) is a magnitude +10.0 barred spiral galaxy located 67.5 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The galaxy was discovered by German-English astronomer William Herschel using an 18.7-inch f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor...

NGC 1332 (also PGC 12838, ESO 548-18, MCG -4-9-11, IRAS 03240-2130, and UGCA 72) is a magnitude +10.3 lenticular galaxy located 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/1...

On 9 December 1997, sensors aboard DOD satellites detected the impact of a meteoroid at 08:15:55 UTC roughly midway between Nuuk and Qaqortoq, Greenland. Read more

Dr. Steven H. Pravdo (born 9 December 1951) is a Principal Scientist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and project manager for the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking Project. Asteroid 6560 Pravdo (1991 NP) is named in his honour. Link:

Image of sunspot 12615 and the western limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

ATel 9835: OAUNI photometry of ASASSN-16hz

Mohammad Abdus Salam, NI, SPk (January 29, 1926 - November 21, 1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the electroweak unification of the electromagnetic and weak forces. Read more

Galaxy's rapid growth spurt may have spawned 3000 suns per year Great galaxies can grow up fast. Extreme quantities of magnesium in a quiet specimen far away reveal it was once one of the wildest star creators in the universe. The galaxy, named COSMOS 11494, is 10.7 billion light years away, so we see i...

Two panel photomosaic of the Moon captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount. Prime focus. Hazy Sky. Very bad seeing.

ATel 9834: Spectroscopic observation of the supernova SN2016ios/Gaia16byj by NUTS (NOT Un-biased Transient Survey)

Spoiler In the footage released on Tuesday, the meteor can be seen flying over the town of Sayanogorsk. According to local authorities parts of it landed in the nearby valley of Babik. Read more

The solar eclipse mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Mursili II could be of great importance for the absolute chronology of the Hittite Empire within the chronology of the Ancient Near East. The text records an "omen of the sun," linked to the tenth year of Mursili's reign, which app...