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Occultation of an 11.5 magnitude star, TYC 0368-01463-1, by a 13.5 magnitide asteroid 747 Winchester. 27th May, 2008. Occultation by asteroid 747 Winchester, 28 May 2008 Click to Play | View Details

Comet P/2002 Q1 (Van Ness) is at Opposition (1.804 AU) in the constellation Lyra on the 30th May 2015 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 05 29 19 04 49.6 +29 48 30 1.8048 2.4187 115.3 22.3 18.1 2015 05 30 19 04 40.1 +30 01 49 1.7938 2.4125 115.7 22.3 18.1 2015 05 31 19 04 29.1 +3...

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Supply ship blasts off for International Space Station A spacecraft carrying much-needed US supplies blasted off toward the International Space Station for the first time atop a white Atlas V rocket at 2144 GMT. Read more

BD+14 2443 (2MASS J11521858+1329132) is a magnitude +8.75 K5 type orange dwarf star located in the constellation Leo. RA; 11 52 18.57650, Dec: +13 29 13.3533

HD 103311 is a magnitude +7.71 F5 type star located 285 light-years away in the constellation Leo. HD 103420 is a magnitude +7.82 F0 type star located 287 light-years away in the constellation Leo.

Ross 121 (Wolf 1423, BD+14 2453) is a magnitude +9.95 High proper-motion G8 type star located 240 light-years away in the constellation Leo. RA: 14 17 31.29463, Dec: +31 35 06.0947

Orbital elements: 2015 XB130 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0415 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 16.21684 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22903799 Peri. 330.29397 +0.94532285 -0.28463810 a 2.6456417 Node 47.15358 +0.32527088 +0.78731737 e 0.6242149 Incl. 12.54121 +0.02373964 +0.54691179 P 4.30 H...

Fireball M20151208_225420 from Ash Vale K3 Spoiler

In February and March 2013, Amateur Radio sources announced that an amateur radio satellite enthusiast, Phil Williams G3YPQ, from North Cornwall, UK, had detected signals from LES1 and determined the source after searching for identifying information on the internet. Read more

Title: KOI-2939b: the largest and longest-period Kepler transiting circumbinary planet Author: Veselin B. Kostov, Jerome A. Orosz, William F. Welsh, Laurance R. Doyle, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Nader Haghighipour, Billy Quarles, Donald R. Short, William D. Cochran, Michael Endl, Eric B. Ford, Joa...

Title: Blue straggler stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies Authors: M. Mapelli (1), E. Ripamonti (2), E. Tolstoy (2), S. Sigurdsson (3), M. J. Irwin (4), G. Battaglia (2) ((1) University of Zürich, (2) Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, (3) Pennsylvania State University, (...

A real-life Da Vinci mystery has been solved - historians have discovered where Leonardo's Mona Lisa was buried. Art investigator Giuseppe Pallanti made the discovery after poring over hundreds of ancient manuscripts. Da Vinci experts now hope to locate her coffin so that they can examine th...

SpaceX International Space Station Pre Launch Briefing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Spoiler NASA and commercial partner SpaceX discussed its plans for a launch of its seventh cargo delivery to the International Spac...

Orbital elements: 2015 XP129 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0435 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 123.16460 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49338253 Peri. 16.86875 +0.26477824 +0.90144917 a 1.5861596 Node 269.53031 -0.91955660 +0.12909672 e 0.3942855 Incl. 20.02779 -0.29035863 +0.41318691 P 2.00...