* Astronomy

A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred at 14:10:15 (UTC) on Saturday, November 19, 2005, in Simeulue, Indonesia, 235 km West-NorthWest of Sibolga, Sumatra, at a depth of 30km. Location 2.232°N, 96.769°E

Lambda Boötis (also 19 Boötis, HR 5351, HD 125162, HIP 69732, and SAO 44965) is a magnitude +4.18 white A-type star located ~99 light-years away in the constellation Boötes. Lambda Boötis is the prototype of a group of rare stars known as Lambda Boötis stars, all of which are dwarf stars with unusuall...

ATel 9831: Discovery of a Probable Nova in M81

ATel 9830: BZQJ2331-2148 optical flare detected by MASTER during Fermi 502272781 inspection

NASA Announces First Geostationary Vegetation, Atmospheric Carbon Mission NASA has selected a first-of-its-kind Earth science mission that will extend our nation's lead in measuring key greenhouse gases and vegetation health from space to advance our understanding of Earth's natural excha...

ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious me...

Planets form in disks of gas and dust that surround newborn stars. Such disks are called proto-planetary disks. The dust in these disks becomes rocky planets like Earth and the inner cores of giant gas planets like Saturn. This dust is also a repository of elements that form the basis of life. Pro...

Title: Historical Auroras in the 990s: Evidence for Great Magnetic Storms Author: Hisashi Hayakawa, Harufumi Tamazawa, Yurina Uchiyama, Yusuke Ebihara, Hiroko Miyahara, Shunsuke Kosaka, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Hiroaki Isobe Recently, a significant carbon-14 enhancement in the year 994 in tree ri...

ATel 9826: ASASSN-16ok and ASASSN-16ol: Discovery of Two Probable Supernovae

ATel 9828: Spectroscopic classification of M33N 2016-12a (AT2016irp) as a classical nova

ATel 9827: ASASSN-16om and ASASSN-16on: Discovery of Two Probable Supernovae

ATel 9827: ASASSN-16om and ASASSN-16on: Discovery of Two Probable Supernovae

ATel 9825: ASASSN-16oj: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in SDSS J053208.29-020407.9

Two panel photomosaic of the Moon captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.

Scottish fossils tell story of first life on land Fossils of what may be the earliest four-legged backboned animals to walk on land have been discovered in Scotland. The lizard-like creatures lived about 355 million years ago, when the ancestors of modern reptiles, birds and mammals emerged from s...