Title: A Massive Spiral Galaxy in the Zone of Avoidance
Authors: J. L. Donley, B. S. Koribalski, L. Staveley-Smith, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg, A. Schroeder, P. A. Henning
Astronomers report the discovery of a very HI-massive disk galaxy, HIZOA J0836-43, at a velocity of...
A Nova in Cygnus was discovered by Hideo Nishimura and Miyawaki, Kakegawa from Japan on April 2.
The Nova had a discovery photographic magnitude of 10.5.
Currently it at magnitude 8.
V2362 CYGPosit...
A pair of supermassive black holes in the distant universe are intertwined and spiralling toward a merger that will create a single super-supermassive black hole capable of swallowing billions of stars, according to a new study by astronomers at the University of Virginia, Bonn University and th...
Chinese scientists on Monday completed the main part of the radio telescope which will serve China's moon-probe project scheduled for launch in 2007.
The antenna measures 40 metres in diameter, and weighs 400 tons. It's located in southwest China's Yunnan Province and is the country's secon...
San Diegans are wondering what's behind a series of mysterious booms heard across the county Tuesday morning.
The booms were heard at around 8:45 a.m. and rattled residents, causing a flood of calls to sheriff's dispatchers.
No measurable seismic activity was recorded in San Diego County,...
A loud sonic boom was heard in the Montgomery area of Alabama, US, today.
Houses and windows shook just before 7 a.m. with what some have described as a something similar to a sonic boom.
Calls to the local TV News station came from a variety of areas in the city including the Harrison Road, Selbro...
A monstrous iceberg - nearly as large as New York's Long Island - has barrelled along the Antarctic coastline, coming to a stop at a well-known geographic feature of Antarctica, a floating tongue of ice hitched to the Ross Ice Shelf. The iceberg, known to scientists as C-16, is being monitore...
Vilama Caldera in Argentina may be just one of several unappreciated supervolcanoes hidden in a veritable mega-volcano nursery called the Eduardo Avaroa Caldera Complex, located in the inhospitable Puna-Altiplano region near the tri-section of Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile.
"Vilam...
A magnitude 15.4 supernova, 2006be, was discovered on the 24th March, 2006 by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search in the spiral galaxy IC 4582, in the constellation Corona Borealis , located 6".2 west and 0".5 south of the nucleus.
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Japan's ruling party will consider new legislation that would clear the way for more military-oriented uses of its space program -- a sharp departure from its current peaceful-use only policy
New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may provide clues to how quasars "turn on." Since the discovery of quasars over 40 years ago, astronomers have been trying to understand the conditions surrounding the birth of these immensely powerful objects.
Hot, X-ray producing reg...
A loud explosion in Burnaby, British Columbia, on March 22nd, has authorities scratching their heads.
At about 11:05 pm the blast rattled windows and awakened neighbours near the Chaffey Burke Elementary School on Abbey Avenue.
Police responded with officers and a dog but came up empty han...
Confidential data about two Japanese government spy satellites were found to have been published on Web sites operated by astronomers overseas in a move to fix the satellites' location.
According to the scientists, by using this data, the satellites' exact locations over the Earth can be pinpo...
