* Astronomy

ATel 9679: MASTER: 2 OT discovered in Argentina

On 22 October 2001, Proba was launched as a technology demonstrator within ESA’s General Support Technology Programme. Once in orbit, however, the small satellite’s unique capabilities and performance made it evident that it could make big contributions to science and so its nominal lifetime w...

Title: First Spectroscopic Imaging Observations of the Sun at Low Radio Frequencies with the Murchison Widefield Array Prototype Authors: Divya Oberoi, Lynn D. Matthews, Iver H. Cairns, David Emrich, Vasili Lobzin, Colin J. Lonsdale, Edward H. Morgan, T. Prabu, Harish Vedantham, Randall B. Wa...

2015 TB145 is a near-Earth asteroid roughly 280620 meters (9002,000 feet) in diameter. It will safely pass 1.27 lunar distances from Earth on 31 October 2015 at 17:01 UTC. Read more Spoiler This 400m wide asteroid will harml...

NGC 6231 (also OCL 997, Melotte 153, Collinder 315 and ESO 332-SC6) is a magnitude +2.6 open cluster located 5900 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The cluster is near the star Zeta Scorpii, Zeta1 (HR 6262) which is a member of the star cluster (The brighter optical binary partner, Zet...

ATel 9541: Swift Observations of GRS 1739-278 in Outburst

ATel 9469: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Likely Galactic Nova ASASSN-16kd

ATel 9674: Spectroscopic classification of Type Ia Supernova 2016guc

The quest for a single theory that unites all of the universe's fundamental forces has thus far eluded physicists, but that has not stopped a team of them from clearing the way for nanotechnologists while they look for it. The group, which includes Purdue University's Ephraim Fischbach, has re...

What a wonder: The Southern Wall Archaeological site by southern Temple Mount is one of Jerusalem’s most impressive. Many people think that only about 200 feet of the Western Wall remain, but we all know the area underneath the Jewish Quarter. Later we rediscovered the Western Wall tun...

ATel 9672: Large NIR Flare of the Blazar CGRaBsJ0510+1800

Messier 38 (also known as M38 or NGC 1912) is an open cluster in the Auriga constellation. Read more

NGC 24 (also ESO 472-16, IRAS 00073-2514, MCG -4-1-18, UGCA 2 and PGC 701) is a magnitude +12.4 spiral galaxy located 25 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum refl...

Title: The Mid-Infrared Polarisation of the Herbig Ae Star WL 16: An Interstellar Origin? Author: Han Zhang, Charles M. Telesco, Eric Pantin, Dan Li, Christopher M. Wright, Naibí Mariñas, Peter Barnes, Aigen Li, Christopher Packham We present high-resolution (0".4) mid-infrared (mid-IR) pol...

Canadian researchers discover method for direct measurement of the quantum wavefunction Scientists around the world now have a new tool to investigate the elementary units of nature. Until now, the quantum wavefunction was believed to be impossible to measure directly, since the very act of obs...