Title: Meteor showers of comet C/1917 F1 Mellish Authors: Peter Vere, Leonard Korno, Juraj Tóth December Monocerotids and November Orionids are weak but established annual meteor showers active throughout November and December. Analysis of a high quality orbits subset of the SonotaCo video me...
theta1 and theta2 Tauri This pair, theta1 Tau and theta2 Tau, are a wide double in the Hyades cluster. The magnitudes of 77 and 78 Tauri are 3.4 and 3.8. They are separated by 337 of arc. Primary : yellow ( 77, Theta-1) Companion: blue-white (78, Theta-2) The pair are visible in binoculars. [url=http:/...
A magnitude 14.9 supernova, 2006gy, was discovered on the 18th September 2006, by the Texas Supernova Search in the galaxy NGC 1260, in the constellation Perseus.
The supernova is located 2".0 west and 0".4 north of the centre of the galaxy.
Position(2000): R.A. = 03h17m27s.06, Dec. = +4...
Title: The light variability of the helium strong star HD 37776 as a result of its inhomogeneous elemental surface distribution Authors: J. Krticka, Z. Mikulasek, J. Zverko, J. Ziznovsky We simulate light curves of the helium strong chemically peculiar star HD 37776 assuming that the observed pe...
A man recently found out that a rock he stumbled upon two years ago is actually a meteorite. George Wright of Denton was walking outside his brother's house in Lufkin when he kicked a rock that was sticking out of the ground. He knew it wasn't like rocks that are typically found in the area, he said, becau...
A US Nike/improved Orion rocket with the German MAPHEUS-2 is scheduled to be launched from the Esrange Space Centre, Sweden in October, 2010. The payload will carry out experiments in microgravity in Suborbital flight. The MAPHEUS-1 was successfully launched from Esrange Space Centre on the 22n...
This new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show the globular cluster known as NGC 1806. Comprised of tens of thousands of stars, it sits within the Large Magellanic Cloud - a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way - and was first seen by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1806. [url=http://ww...
NASA'S Kepler Spacecraft Takes Pulse Of Distant Stars An international cadre of scientists that used data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft announced Tuesday the detection of stellar oscillations, or "starquakes," that yield new insights about the size, age and evolution of stars. The...
Hurricane Richard (AL19) is forecast to make landfall in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico. Belize City (17.5 N, 88.2 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently
The 270 - 600 metre wide asteroid 2010 TC55 will make a close pass (47.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1216 AU), travelling at 13.00 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th November, 2010 @ 17:45 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD...
The 300 - 660 metre wide asteroid 2010 TX168 will make a close pass (54.5 Lunar Distances, 0.1399 AU), travelling at 18.11 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th November, 2010 @ 22:17 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (L...
The 210 - 480 metre wide asteroid 2010 TM3 will make a close pass (59.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1525 AU), travelling at 4.97 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th November, 2010 @ 09:43 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), th...
The 56 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2010 SS16 will make a close pass (52.9 Lunar Distances, 0.1359 AU), travelling at 6.21 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th November, 2010 @ 11:32 UT. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), t...
Title: SMC SMP 24: A newly radio-detected planetary nebula in the small magellanic cloud Authors: I. S. Bojicic, M. D. Filipovic, E. J. Crawford In this paper we report new radio-continuum detection of an extragalactic PN: SMC SMP 24. We show the radio-continuum image of this PN and present the meas...
Scientists believe that a meteorite that landed in Ireland on September 1 may have touched down in north east Clare. According to Ireland's foremost astronomer, David Moore, the September 1 meteorite is likely to have landed in land along the border between Clare, Galway and Tipperary. [url=http...