* Astronomy

NASA's SDO Watches Magnetic Arches Tower Over Sun's Surface Massive arches of solar material brighten and stream over an active region on the sun's surface in this animation of imagery captured by NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, on Sept. 29, 2016. Read more [spoiler][video=https://ww...

Blue Origin, the secretive commercial spaceflight startup funded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos, has released new details about their plans to offer suborbital passenger spaceflights. A brief summary posted on the company's web site several days ago described the company's p...

A major British electrical retailer is selling solar panels in high street shops for the first time. Currys has launched a pilot scheme in three of its stores selling the off-the-shelf green technology. Shoppers in West Thurrock, Essex, and Fulham and Croydon in Greater London will be able t...

Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: Old Summit) is an active volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of Isla de La Palma in the Canary Islands. This ridge trends in an approximate north-south direction and covers the southern third of the island. It is lined by several volcanic craters. [url=http://en.wik...

X-ray Telescopes Find Evidence for Wandering Black Hole Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory to discover an extremely luminous, variable X-ray source located outside the center of its parent galaxy. This peculiar object could be a wand...

Image of sunspots 12598 and 12599 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world's smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L Feringa will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize for the design and synthesis of machines on a molecular scale. Read more

The nebula M78 (also known as Messier object 78 or NGC 2068) is a reflection nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1780 and included by Charles Messier in his catalogue of comet-like objects that same year. [url=http://static.flickr.com/111/267175435...

ATel 9595: MASTER-SAAO discovery: possible ultraluminous SN in GALEX galaxy or CV (ampl>5.1m)

VEGA FLIGHT VV07 with PerúSAT-1 and SkySats-4 to -7 For its seventh launch of the year, and seventh Vega mission since the light launcher began operations at the Guiana Space Center French Guiana, in 2012, Arianespace will orbit the PerúSAT-1 satel-lite as part of a turnkey contract with Airbus Def...

Annie Russell Maunder (Born Annie Scott Dill Russell, 14 April 1868 - 15 September 1947) was an Irish astronomer and mathematician. Read more

Title: Origin of the Fermi Bubble Authors: K.S. Cheng, D. O. Chernyshov, V. A. Dogiel, C.-M. Ko, W.-H. Ip Fermi has discovered two giant gamma-ray-emitting bubbles that extend nearly 10kpc in diameter north and south of the galactic centre (GC). The existence of the bubbles was first evidenced in X...

Title: KOI-1003: A new spotted, eclipsing RS CVn binary in the Kepler field Author: Rachael M. Roettenbacher (1, 2), Stephen R. Kane (3), John D. Monnier (1), Robert O. Harmon (4) ((1) University of Michigan, (2) Stockholm University, (3) San Francisco State University, (4) Ohio Wesleyan Univers...

Orbital elements: C/2010 V1 (Ikeya-Murakami) T 2010 Oct. 18.817 TT MPC q 1.71541 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 155.076 -0.944539 -0.328019 Node 5.844 +0.269313 -0.801191 e 1.0 Incl. 8.913 +0.187925 -0.500497 From 50 observations 2010 Nov. 3-4. [url=http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/mpec/K10/K10V46...

The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi is in outburst. Previous outbursts have been recorded in 1898, 1933, 1958, and 1967, with a possible outburst in 1945. The last outburst of RS Oph occurred in January 1985, when the...