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A magnitude 14.9, type Ia, supernova, 2008C was discovered on 3rd January 2008, by Tim Puckett, R. Gagliano and Jack Newton in the galaxy UGC 3611 in the constellation Gemini. The supernova is located 2".95 west and 0" north of the centre of the galaxy. Supernova 2008C.kmz [url=http://w...

Expand (206k, 560 x 560) Credit NASA An ultraviolet image of the Sun reveals a new active region emerging from the eastern limb.

An international team of physicists, including University of Oregon scientists, has concluded that last February's intense burst of gamma rays possibly coming from the Andromeda Galaxy lacked a gravitational wave. That absence, they say, rules out an initial interpretation that the burst cam...

Environment Canada and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada can't explain just what it was a P.E.I. couple filmed in the Island skies on Wednesday evening. When Tony Quigley and his wife Marie of North Tryon, just east of the Confederation Bridge, saw a dark spiral in the sky they went for the vid...

A Christmas Eve flash in the sky over northeastern Shasta County has some speculating about reindeer on fire or season's greetings from little green men. But the celestial light show was probably just a meteorite, said Fall River Mills firefighter Quincy Hatch. Hatch and other firefighters were d...

Orbital elements: 2008 AE Earth MOID = 0.1317 AU Epoch 2007 Oct. 27.0 TT = JDT 2454400.5 MPC M 278.39891 (2000.0) P Q n 0.69073396 Peri. 23.35714 -0.90479550 -0.40130634 a 1.2674442 Node 132.18653 +0.35407210 -0.89482485 e 0.1244644 Incl. 11.08586 +0.23659680 -0.19555486 P 1.43 H 19.7 G 0.15 U 9 Ep...

Expand (78kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (58kb, 1024 x 768) The Moon and Venus 7:00 UT, 6th, November 2007.

Sulphur Hexafluoride Gas Click to Play | View Details

There will be a total lunar eclipse at 03:26:05 UT, Feb 21 2008 . The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia. During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colourful appearance from bright orang...

A classified spacecraft payload, NROL-24, is scheduled for launch on 2007 Dec 10 at 22:04 UTC (17:04 EST), from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral, aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V-401 rocket. The rocket will fly with a four-metre fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper...

A new magnitude 18.5 comet was discovered by Rob H. McNaught on images taken with the Uppsala 0.5 meter Schmidt telescope of the Siding Spring Survey on December 31, 2007. The comet was confirmed by D. M. Burton (Australian National University, ANU) using the 1 metre Siding Spring reflector. The pre...

Launch of a GSLV Rocket that was launched on September 20th 2004 from the Sriharikota launch centre, for the GSAT-3/Edusat mission. EDUSAT Launch Click to Play | View Details

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A outburst of a WZ Sagittae (Sge) type dwarf nova was detected during observations conducted in mid-December, 2007, by the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Nova.kmz Google Sky file (1kb, kmz) Position(2000): RA = 11h 12m 18s, Dec = -35d 38'...

The University of Wisconsin-Platteville has purchased five new Meade telescopes to aid the astronomy program on campus. The purchase is funded by the university's chemistry and physics departments. The new telescopes will supplement the six reflector units, and the older Meade telescopes cur...