China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, will be launched in October 2010, a top space scientist said Thursday. Ye Peijian, chief designer of the nation's first moon probe, told the third International Conference on Space Information Technology in Beijing yesterday that the country's lunar land...
NGC 7777 (also UGC 12829, MCG 5-56-18, GWT 498.26 or PGC 72744) is a magnitude +13.4 lenticular galaxy located 321 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observ...
Title: Gamma-Ray Observations of the Supernova Remnant RX J0852.0-4622 with the Fermi LAT Authors: T. Tanaka, A. Allafort, J. Ballet, S. Funk, F. Giordano, J. Hewitt, M. Lemoine-Goumard, H. Tajima, O. Tibolla, Y. Uchiyama We report on gamma-ray observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) RX J08...
Title: Wait for it: Post-supernova winds driven by delayed radioactive decays Author: Ken J. Shen, Josiah Schwab In most astrophysical situations, the radioactive decay of 56Ni to 56Co occurs via electron capture with a fixed half-life of 6.1 days. However, this decay rate is significantly slow...
Title: Optical Spectroscopic Observations of CI Camelopardalis Authors: Jingzhi Yan, Qingzhong Liu, Hengrong Hang (PMO) We present the results of optical spectroscopic observations of CI Cam. Double-peaked profiles were simultaneously observed for the first time in the hydrogen Balmer, He...
Expedition 49-50 Crew Prepares for Launch in Kazakhstan Spoiler At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 49-50 Soyuz Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Andrey Borisenko of Roscosmos and Flight...
Rare meteorite offers clues to the universe's formation A meteorite unveiled in Perth could offer science more clues on how the universe was formed because scientists believe they know where it came from. The chondrite or stony meteorite was discovered thanks to a network of 32 remote cameras spre...
Junko Tabei (born September 22, 1939) is a Japanese mountain-climber, who became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975. Read more
Typhoon Haima lashes China's Hong Kong With the arrival of Typhoon Haima, public transportation was partly suspended and schools were closed in Hong Kong on Friday. Read more
Russian Police have detained a man who stole a 40 kg meteorite worth $50,000 from the Moscow Planetarium.
He was trying to sell it on the street.
The Sihote-Alinn 1610 meteorite that disappeared...
'Heartbeat Stars' Unlocked in New Study Heartbeat stars, discovered in large numbers by NASA's Kepler space telescope, are binary stars (systems of two stars orbiting each other) that got their name because if you were to map out their brightness over time, the result would look like an electrocar...
NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system - a large disk of gas and dus...
Asteroid (345) Tercidina is at Opposition in constellation the Canis Minor on the 18th January 2014 Magnitude: 11.5 Distance to Earth: 1.248 AU Distance to Sun center: 2.206 AU
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