* Astronomy

Possible Minor Outburst of 0324+43 GK Persei The Cataclysmic Variable Star (Nova) GK Persei has shown dwarf-nova-like outbursts of about 3 magnitudes every 3 years. Position(2000): RA 03:31:11.82 Dec +43:54:16.8 S...

Title: Large Volume Axionic Swiss-Cheese Inflation Authors: Aalok Misra, Pramod Shukla (Version v5) Continuing with the ideas of (section 4 of) [1], after inclusion of perturbative and non-perturbative alpha' corrections to the Kaehler potential and (D1- and D3-) instanton generated superp...

NGC 6537 (also Red Spider Nebula, ESO 590-PN1 and HD 312582) is a magnitude +13.0 planetary nebula located ~5,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The star at the center of the Red Spider Nebula is surrounded by a dust shell making its exact properties hard to determine. Its surf...

Russian observatory once closed to public houses art exhibit A remote Russian observatory housing what was once the world's largest mirrored telescope has become the setting for an art installation that explores the near-infinite reaches of both outer space and the human imagination. The works...

ATel 9657: SALT spectroscopic classification of PS16eot (= SN 2016hfb) as a type-II supernova

ATel 9659: Liverpool Telescope Spectrum of TCP J01375892+4951055 - A Dwarf Nova in the Andromeda Constellation

Work is underway at the site of a proposed multi-million dollar dinosaur museum in outback Queensland. The Australian Age of Dinosaurs is planning a world-class museum just outside of Winton, in the state's central west, and is about to build a fossil preparation area and a road on the site. [url=ht...

ATel 9656: Transient Object AT 2016hbq is a Red LPV

A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the "Green Peas" with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe. The Galaxy Zoo users,...

Title: The 2012 July 23 Backside Eruption: An Extreme Energetic Particle Event? Author: Nat Gopalswamy, Seiji Yashiro, Neeharika Thakur, Pertti Mäkelä, Hong Xie, Sachiko Akiyama The backside coronal mass ejection (CME) of 2012 July 23 had a short Sun to Earth shock transit time (18.5 hours). The...

Title: Deep Chandra Observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Created by PSR B0355+54 Author: Noel Klingler, Blagoy Rangelov, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov, Roger W. Romani, Bettina Posselt, Patrick Slane, Tea Temim, C.-Y. Ng, Niccolò Bucciantini, Andrei Bykov, Douglas A. Swartz, Rolf Buehl...

Have Venusian volcanoes been caught in the act? Six years of observations by ESA's Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulphur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere, and one intriguing possible explanation is volcanic eruptions. The thick atmosphere of Venus contains over a milli...

ATel 9655: Gaia16bmw is a Type II SN

ATel 9654: MASTER-SAAO: bright PSN in PGC343067

'Zika mosquito' eggs found near Folkestone in Kent The eggs of a mosquito capable of transmitting tropical diseases, including the Zika virus, have been found for the first time in the UK. People in Stanford near Folkestone have been sent letters telling them Asian tiger mosquito eggs had been disc...