* Astronomy

Scottish scientist Gordon Hamilton dies in Antarctica in snowmobile accident A Dundee-born scientist has died in Antarctica after the snowmobile he was driving fell into a crevasse. Dr Gordon Hamilton, 50, was killed after the vehicle plunged 30.48m into the crevasse on Saturday. Read more

ATel 9670: NIR flare of the Blazar BZBJ2012+4628

IC 711 (also known as MCG 8-21-62 and PGC 35780) is a magnitude +14.1 elliptical galaxy located 446.8 million light-year away in the constellation Ursa Major. IC 711 is the "head" of a long radio trail. The galaxy was discovery by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 16" refractor at the Warner...

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Saturn's rings appear strangely warped in this view of the rings seen through the upper Saturn atmosphere. Expand...

A magnitude 16.9 Type Ia supernova, 2012cg, was discovered on the 17th May, 2012, in the Barred Spiral galaxy NGC 4424 in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 17.3" East and 1.5" South from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA = 12 27 12.83 , Dec = +09 25 13.2 CBET00311...

An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger swirling around a distant star that is just slightly...

Priceless art dating from the Stone Age has been damaged in forest fires, some deliberately set, in northwestern Spain, officials said. Color paintings and carvings on rocks, known as petroglyphs, of wildlife and geometric patterns dating back about 4,000 years, have been charred and blackened...

Jing Haipeng (born October 24, 1966) is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. Read more

China's 'Little Bee' searches for strongest blasts in universe A square-shaped probe, dubbed "Little Bee" by Chinese scientists, is searching for gamma-ray bursts, the strongest explosions in the universe. The formal name of the probe, set atop China's first space lab Tiangong-2, is POLAR (an a...

ATel 9668: ASASSN-16lz: Discovery of A Probable Supernova in an Uncatalogued Galaxy

Next step towards a gravitational-wave observatory in space Today, ESA has invited European scientists to propose concepts for the third large mission in its science programme, to study the gravitational Universe. A spaceborne observatory of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spac...

Renewable energy capacity overtakes coal The International Energy Agency says that the world's capacity to generate electricity from renewable sources has now overtaken coal. The IEA says in a new report that last year, renewables accounted for more than half of the increase in power capacity. R...

Stars within 50 light years of the Sun Catalog Name Equatorial Galactic Classification Visual Abs Prllx Dist Proper Name Notes Coordinates Coordinates Mag Mag (ly) RA Dec l...

A study of supernova remnants – material blown out into space during death throes of giant stars – has shown that a bubble of gas enveloping our Solar System is being shoved backwards by the debris of another, more recent, supernova. Over the last few million years, several stars have exploded wi...