* Astronomy

Canada military probes mysterious Arctic pinging noise The sound, sometimes also described as a "hum" or a "beep", has been heard throughout the summer in Fury and Hecla Strait, legislative assembly member Paul Quassa told CBC, about 120km north-west of the hamlet of Igloolik. The area is a narrow...

NGC 3690 (also Arp 299B, UGC 6472 and PGC 35321 and PGC 35326) is a magnitude +11.6 irregular galaxy located 150 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. This galaxy is in the process of colliding with the spiral galaxy IC 694. 700 million years ago there was a close encounter with IC 6...

Title: Multiwavelength Observations of V2775 Ori, an Outbursting Protostar in L 1641: Exploring the Edge of the FU Orionis Regime Authors: William J. Fischer, S. Thomas Megeath, John J. Tobin, Amelia M. Stutz, Babar Ali, Ian Remming, Marina Kounkel, Thomas Stanke, Mayra Osorio, Thomas Henning,...

ATel 9710: MAXI J0636+146: Swift/XRT localization

NASA has announced they have chosen the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, US, to develop and design four satellites for the agency's Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, due to be launched in 2013. The Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is a Solar-Terrestrial Probe mis...

NGC 299 (also Lindsay 49, ESO 051-SC 005, and PGC 3517848) is a magnitude +11.7 open star cluster located just under 200,000 light-years away within the Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Toucan. The cluter was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch)...

Isaac David Abella (June 20, 1934 - October 23, 2016) was a Professor of Physics at The University of Chicago. He specializes in laser physics, quantum optics, and spectroscopy. Read more

Widnes earthworm Dave wriggles into record books An earthworm named Dave has wriggled into the record books as the largest ever found in the UK - measuring a whopping 40cm. Experts at the Natural History Museum bestowed the accolade upon the annelid after it ventured above ground in a vegetable plot...

The antiproton (p, pronounced p-bar), which is also sometimes referred to as a negatron, is the antiparticle of the proton. The antiproton was experimentally confirmed in 1955 by University of California, Berkeley physicists Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain, for which they were awarded the 19...

Title: A New Hubble Space Telescope Distance to NGC 1569: Starburst Properties and IC 342 Group Membership Authors: Aaron J. Grocholski, Alessandra Aloisi, Roeland P. van der Marel, Jennifer Mack, Francesca Annibali, Luca Angeretti, Laura Greggio, Enrico V. Held, Donatella Romano, Marco Siri...

The Diep River (L6) meteorite fell in Western Cape, South Africa, on the 4th November, 1906. A total mass of 1000 g was recovered. 33° 45'S, 18° 34'E

Title: Ultra Short Period Planets in K2 with companions: a double transiting system for EPIC 220674823 Author: Elisabeth R. Adams, Brian Jackson, Michael Endl, William D. Cochran, Phillip J. MacQueen, Dmitry A. Duev, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Maïssa Salama, Carl Ziegler, Christoph Baranec, Shrin...

Asteroid 2016 TG55 makes a close approach to the Earth on the 4th November 2016

Kuiper Belt Object (55637) 2002 UX25 is a Spitzer dwarf-planet candidate that orbits the Sun in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune. It takes roughly 280 years to orbit the Sun, and it has one known moon. Read more The discovery of a s...

ATel 9703: Spectroscopic observations of AT2016hnk by NUTS (NOT Un-biased Transient Survey)