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Asteroid (49) Pales was at Opposition at 01:40 UT, 17th January, 2011. Distance to Sun=2.823 AU Distance to Earth=1.839 AU Magnitude=11.4 mag Elongation=179.1°

H2A #29 Launch with Telstar 12 VANTAGE Spoiler Launch of Telstar 12 VANTAGE/H-IIA F29 Live Broadcast Spoiler

Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC. The experiment will be used to study how fluids behave in low gravity, providing information that coul...

Four panel white-light photomosaic of sunspots 12458 and 12457 and a new sunspot emerging over the eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam.

Orbital elements: 2015 WP2 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 58.89792 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57371871 Peri. 287.87695 +0.96970146 +0.24296322 a 1.4343992 Node 58.06848 -0.21124435 +0.88628765 e 0.4572413 Incl. 1.71876 -0.12269842 +0.39428806 P 1.72 H 30.1 G 0....

Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people A giant plant using energy from the Sun to power a Moroccan city at night will open next month. The solar thermal plant at Ouarzazate will harness the Sun's warmth to melt salt, which will hold its heat to generate energy in the evening. Read more

Kuiper Belt Object 2008 OG19 is at Opposition (37.588 AU) in the constellation Capricornus on the 2nd August 2015. EphemerisDate UT R.A. (J2000) Decl. Delta r El. Ph. Mag 2015 08 01 000000 20 36 02.7 -10 26 24 37.588 38.594 172.1 0.2 20.5 2015 08 02 000000 20 35 57.8 -10 26 46 37.588 38.594 172.1 0.2 20....

Orbital elements: 2015 WE2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0178 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 350.48129 (2000.0) P Q n 0.38492134 Peri. 117.36868 -0.82782469 -0.56028143 a 1.8716360 Node 28.58236 +0.49169539 -0.74879802 e 0.5183458 Incl. 3.37015 +0.27007762 -0.35409920 P 2.56 H 21...

Orbital elements: 2015 WA2 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0015 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 59.57173 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47375752 Peri. 273.26393 +0.55668163 +0.81976355 a 1.6296661 Node 31.77432 -0.62392509 +0.51948922 e 0.6386309 Incl. 14.80000 -0.54847338 +0.24107815 P 2.08 H 21...

Orbital elements: 2015 TE323 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0224 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 325.35418 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30098333 Peri. 323.36552 -0.92490605 -0.37789740 a 2.2051650 Node 194.60365 +0.37613744 -0.89350316 e 0.5963414 Incl. 9.52949 +0.05540247 -0.24258124 P 3.27...

Orbital elements: 2015 WN1 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU Epoch 2016 Jan. 13.0 TT = JDT 2457400.5 MPC M 60.26770 (2000.0) P Q n 0.59124828 Peri. 124.76259 +0.99843416 +0.05551038 a 1.4059055 Node 232.05626 -0.05376161 +0.91804473 e 0.3702946 Incl. 0.50243 -0.01545679 +0.39257162 P 1.67 H 26.6 G 0...

The skull of the 'real' Winnie goes on display The skull of the bear that inspired the Winnie-the-Pooh books is going to be put on public display for the first time, in a London museum. Christopher Robin's teddy bear, which gave the name to AA Milne's books, was named after Winnie, a black bear he liked t...

Galaxies NGC 3227, and NGC 3226, in the constellation Leo. NGC 3226 (also UGC 5617, PGC 30440, and Arp 94) is a magnitude +12.3 dwarf elliptical galaxy that is interacting with the magnitude +11.1 spiral galaxy NGC 3227 (UGC 5620, PGC 30445), located 77 ± 9 million light-years away in the constellat...

Title: The Size, Structure and Ionisation of the Broad Line Region in NGC 3227 Authors: Nick Devereux Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy, NGC 3227, confirms previous reports that the broad H-alpha emission line flux is time variable, decreasing by a modest ~ 13% be...

COMBO-17 J114356.08-0144032 Christian Wolf of the University of Oxford has discovered a rare Ultra-cool white dwarf. Only seven of these ultra cool white dwarfs, with surface temperatures below 4,000 kelvins, were known to exist before. Regular white dwarfs are dead star...