Title: Triggered Star Formation in a Double Shell near W51A Authors: Miju Kang, John H. Bieging, Craig A. Kulesa, Youngung Lee We present Heinrich Hertz Telescope CO observations of the shell structure near the active star-forming complex W51A to investigate the process of star formation trigge...
Title: Solar physics at the Kodaikanal Observatory: A Historical Perspective Authors: S. S. Hasan, D.C.V. Mallik, S. P. Bagare, S. P. Rajaguru This article traces the birth and growth of solar physics at the Kodaikanal Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India. A maj...
Title: The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey Authors: M. L. N. Ashby, D. Stern, M. Brodwin, R. Griffith, P. Eisenhardt, S. Kozlowski, C. S. Kochanek, J. J. Bock, C. Borys, K. Brand, M. J. I. Brown, R. Cool, A. Cooray, S. Croft, A. Dey, D. Eisenstein, A. H. Gonzalez, V. Gorjian, N. A. Grogin, R. J. Ivison, J...
Title: HST Images and KPNO Spectroscopy of the Binary Black Hole Candidate SDSS J153636.22+044127.0 Authors: Tod R. Lauer, Todd A. Boroson (NOAO) We present HST WFPC2/PC images and KPNO 4-m longslit spectroscopy of the QSO SDSS J153636.22+044127.0, which we advanced as a candidate binary super...
The 260 - 580 metre wide asteroid 2002 LT38 will make a close pass (37.3 Lunar Distances, 0.0958 AU), travelling at 6.56 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd June, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance b...
Telescope sale problem Troubleshooter Diane Wilson got in touch with Big Bang Astronomy Shop and within days Booth had his check, which included the sale of his telescope and the fee for the bounced check. He says he's very glad it's over. One of the owners of the Big Bang Astronomy Shop said they have t...
A magnitude 13.8, type Ia supernova, 2009fj, was discovered on the 27th May, 2009, by Pignata et al. (CHASE) in the spiral galaxy PGC 38391 (ESO 267-16) in the constellation Centaurus. The supernova is located 2" east and 40" south from the center of the galaxy. Position(2000): RA = 1...
A possible magnitude 17.7 supernova was discovered on the 30th May, 2009 in the spiral galaxy PGC 50294 (2MASX J14060661+1147214) in the constellation Bootes. The supernova is located 11" West and 6" South from the center of the galaxy Position(2000): RA 14 06 05.80, Dec +11 47 13.9...
Orbital elements: 2009 LA Earth MOID = 0.0071 AU Epoch 2009 June 18.0 TT = JDT 2455000.5 MPC M 53.43540 (2000.0) P Q n 0.70851845 Peri. 288.60845 -0.97816859 -0.04568063 a 1.2461451 Node 249.18050 +0.10980474 -0.94185215 e 0.3103155 Incl. 12.52656 -0.17643450 -0.33290810 P 1.39 H 26.3 G 0.15 U 9 [u...
Researchers have long sought to unravel the mysteries of the aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights. In 2005, Dartmouth physics professor Kristina Lynch led a team that tried to answer a few of these mysteries with the Cascades-1 rocket, which failed to gather the desired information a...
Two people have contacted the Whitby Gazette to say they also saw a spectacular fireball which streaked across the sky in Whitby last month. Alison Heffernan of Holly Tree Court spotted something when she was watching television on 11 May. Veronica Rickards also saw the object miles away from her ho...
South Koreas Yonhap news agency quoted unnamed intelligence sources saying that a missile-like object has been spotted on satellite photographs being removed from a missile factory near the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/artic...
