Incredible Green 'Fireball Meteor' in Thailand Caught on Camera Incredible footage has emerged showing a "fireball meteor" dashing through the sky in Thailands capital of Bangkok Monday evening. The Thai Astronomical Society confirmed on its Facebook page that the falling object was a bright-...
Fireball over Pennsylvania The AMS has received over 160 reports so far about of a fireball event over seen over Pennsylvania on November 1st, 2016 around 08:15pm EDT (Nov. 2nd ~ 00:15 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Pennsylvania but witnesses from Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Ohio,...
NASA Delivers Space Seeds to Park Seed How many Ph.D.s does it take to open a NASA space seed container? That was just one of the many questions discussed when Dr. Bill Kinard from NASA visited Park Seed Company recently to deliver approximately 1 million Cinnamon Basil seeds that spent a year orbitin...
NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula, lies 11,000 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia..
The 10 light-year diameter bubble is created by a bright hot star embedded in reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of t...
NGC 7510 (also OCL 256) is a magnitude +7.9 open cluster located about 11,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. The open cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire,...
NGC 1502 (also Collinder 45 and OCL 383) is a magnitude +6.9 open star cluster located in the constellation Camelopardalis. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 3...
NGC 1501 (also CH Camelopardalis, WD 0402+608, PK 144+6.1 and GC 801) is a magnitude +11.5 planetary nebula located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. The planetary nebula was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch)...
NGC 1499 (also California Nebula, Sharpless 2-220 and LBN 756) is a magnitude +6.0 emission nebula located about 1000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The nebula was discovered by American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard using a 15.24 cm (6 inch) refracting telescope at the Vand...
Title: HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), G. Torres (1), A. Pál (1,4), J. Hartman (1), Géza Kovács (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), B. Sipocz (1,4), G. A. Esquerdo (1), D. A. Fischer (5), J. A. Johnson (6),...
Title: The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zuqnin Author: Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Mitsuma, Yasunori Fujiwara, Akito Davis Kawamura, Ryuho Kataoka, Yusuke Ebihara, Shunsuke Kosaka, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Harufumi Tamazawa, Hiroaki Isob...
Title: Subarcsecond Resolution Mid-Infrared Observations of Super Star Clusters in the Antennae (NGC4038/4039)
Authors: Leonie Snijders, Paul P. van der Werf, Bernhard R. Brandl, Sabine Mengel, Daniel Schaerer, Zhong Wang
In this letter researchers present ground-b...
Carina Nebula dust pillars harbour embedded stars.
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harbouring infant stars, according to a U...
China to launch Tiangong-2 space lab in 2016 China's first astronaut Yang Liwei has revealed that China will launch the Tiangong-2 space lab in 2016 and will finish building a space station around 2022. China will also launch a manned spacecraft, the Shenzhou-11, and Tianzhou-1 cargo spaceship to...
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