* Astronomy

India test-fires surface-to-air missile 'Barak-8' India Tuesday successfully test fired a new surface-to-air missile--'Barak-8', from a defence base in its eastern sate of Odisha, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) said. The long-range nuclear capable ballistic missile, develop...

ATel 9509: MASTER-OAFA discovery: bright high amplitude(>7.5m) OT and PSN in bright spiral pgc131693

Movie (AVI format) of the evolution of the parsec-scale jet of the quasar PKS 1510-089. 1 mas = 5.1 parsecs for a Hubble constant of 65 km/s/Mpc. The yellow contours show total intensity (starting at 90%, then 64%, 32%, 16%, ... of the peak), while the coloured image corresponds to linearly polarised...

Four panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

A working reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer which was found at the bottom of the ocean in 1900 has been unveiled and is on display at the Technopolis museum, in Athens. The devi...

Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago - before the island had permanent settlements. The underwater discovery of what archaeologists said were the oldest materials reco...

Asteroid (322) Phaeo is at Opposition in the constellation Pegasus on the 19th September 2016. Magnitude: 11.4 Distance to Earth: 1.117 AU Distance to Sun: 2.104 AU

Sunspot 12592 and the eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Jennie McCormick has moved on from planets in her latest discovery. Relevant offers After hours of searching the night sky for planets Jennie McCormick stumbled across something no one knew existed. NASA, which scours space for any asteroid that could one day hit earth, didn't even know. So the Far...

China raises alert as Typhoon Malakas nears Chinese marine forecasting authorities on Friday upgraded the warning for storms to "orange" as Typhoon Malakas is approaching the east coast of Taiwan. Malakas, the 16th typhoon in 2016, will hit the coasts of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces from Saturd...

Four panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.

Title: KELT-1b: A Strongly Irradiated, Highly Inflated, Short Period, 27 Jupiter-mass Companion Transiting a mid-F Star Authors: Robert J. Siverd, Thomas G. Beatty, Joshua Pepper, Jason D. Eastman, Karen Collins, Allyson Bieryla, David W. Latham, Lars A. Buchhave, Eric L. N. Jensen, Justin R....

ATel 9499: MASTER-IAC: high amplitude (>8m) bright OT

Hubble Finds a Lenticular Galaxy Standing Out in the Crowd A lone source shines out brightly from the dark expanse of deep space, glowing softly against a picturesque backdrop of distant stars and colourful galaxies. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (...

The fort of Dun Deardail was probably built in the first millennium BC or first millennium AD. Its first ever archaeological excavation took place in late 2015 as part of the Dun Deardail project which aims to increase our understanding of the hillfort and protect it for the future. Read more