On October 5 and October 7 BEXUS student balloons were launched from Esrange Space Center. BEXUS 22 was launched on October 5 at 13:34 UTC and landed in Finland. BEXUS 23 was launched on October 7 at 07:08 UTC and landed in Sweden, south of Pajala. Read more
Something New On the Sun: SDO Spots a Late Phase in Solar Flares The sun's surface dances. Giant loops of magnetised solar material burst up, twist, and fall back down. Some erupt, shooting radiation flares and particles out into space. Forced to observe this dance from afar, scientists use all the t...
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 5 to announce the discovery of a strange place where planets might be forming.
Astronomers have found five stellar corpses that appear to be swallowing asteroids that once orbite...
Turbulence generated by thunderstorms can drive the multiple east-west jet streams on the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune and explain a long-standing conundrum concerning the puzzling differences between the innermost two planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and the outermost tw...
Herbig-Haro object #1 and #2 are formed when a surrounding the cloud is heated by shock waves from jets of high-speed gas being ejected from a newborn star. Because the star itself is embedded in a dusty cocoon, the Herbig-Haro objects provide the only visible clues to physical processes occurring i...
V Hydrae (HIP 53085, SAO 179278, IRAS 10491-2059) is a magnitude 7.0 - 11.5 variable star in the constellation Hydra. It is considered by astronomers to be a carbon star. With a B-V colour index of +5.5 it is one of the reddest stars visible. It has a period of approximately 18 years and a sub-period of ap...
NGC 262 (also Markarian 348, UGC 499 and PGC 2855) is a magnitude +13.1 huge spiral galaxy in the cluster LGG 14 located 202 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refracto...
K2-3d also known as EPIC 201367065 d is a high mass exoplanet orbiting K2-3 a red dwarf, every 44.5 days 137 ly away.[1][2] It has a density of 17.5±6.3g/cm3 far greater than that of Iron Indicating that it has a solid surface simular of that of a terrestrial planet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2...
Malin 1, the prototypical giant low surface brightness galaxy, harbours a normal disk of stars, says an astronomer in California. A Hubble image reveals a barred spiral galaxy at Malin 1's centre. As a result, Malin 1 may no longer be classified as a low surface brightness galaxy. Discovered i...
BL Lacertae or BL Lac is a highly variable, extragalactic AGN (active galactic nucleus or active galaxy). It was first discovered by Cuno Hoffmeister in 1929, but was originally thought to be an irregular variable star in the Milky Way galaxy and so was given a variable star designation. BL Lacertae...
Mount Meager, originally known as Meager Mountain, is a volcanic massif in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc of western North America, it is located 150 km north of Vancouver at the northern end of the Pemberton Vall...
A planet-searching satellite planned by scientists from MIT, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and NASA-Ames is one of six proposed spacecraft concepts that NASA has picked for further study as part of its Small Explorer (SMEX) satellite program. The planet-searching satellit...
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