NGC 3384 (also NGC 3371, MCG 2-28-12, UGC 5911 and PGC 32292) is a magnitude +9.9 elliptical galaxy located 32 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy belongs to the Leo I group of galaxies. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47....
NGC 3389 (also NGC 3373, UGC 5914, MCG 2-28-13 and PGC 32306) is a magnitude +11.8 spiral galaxy located 60 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, Be...
NGC 2129 (also Collinder 77 and OCl 467) is a magnitude +6.7 open cluster located ~7176 light-years-away inside the Local spiral arm in the constellation Gemini. It has an angular distance of 2.5 arcminutes that corresponds to a diameter of about 10.4 light years. NGC 2129 is a very young cluster who...
A possible piece of space junk with a 31-day orbit period around the Earth. The object will make a close pass (0.2 Lunar Distances, 82,000 km) to the Earth on the 29th October, 2009. Orbital elements: 9U01FF6 Perigee 2009 Oct 29.171830 TT = 4:07:26 (JD 2455133.671830) Epoch 2009 Oct 27.0 TT = JDT 2455...
Main-Belt Asteroid Shows Evidence of March Collision The main-belt asteroid (493) Griseldis was probably hit by another object last March. The results were reported on November 12 at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society near Washington...
Underwater volcano is Earth's biggest Geophysicists have discovered what they say is the largest single volcano on Earth, a 650-kilometre-wide beast the size of the British Isles lurking beneath the waters of the northwest Pacific Ocean. The megavolcano has been inactive for some 140 million ye...
Double sun sunset no longer science fiction An international research team from University of Jena (Germany), Nagoya University, and Harvard-Smithsonian Centre (USA) has recently obtained the first direct images of the second "Sun" around a planet-hosting star, gam Cep, using the...
Title: Spitzer Observations of the Lambda Orionis cluster. II. Disks around solar-type and low mass stars Authors: Jesus Hernandez, Maria Morales-Calderon, Nuria Calvet, L. Hartmann, J. Muzerolle, R. Gutermuth, K. L. Luhman, J. Stauffer We present IRAC/MIPS Spitzer Space Telescope observat...
NGC 3462 (also MCG 1-28-19, UGC 6034 and PGC 32822) is a magnitude +12,2 lenticular galaxy (S0) located 296 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector in the gar...
Honey - it's not always what it seems Honey is a tasty, high energy food valued for its taste, colour and unique combination of nutrients that is eaten regularly in New Zealand. As natural products, honeys can vary considerably in their composition depending on the flowers or plants the bees visit....
Incoming space junk a scientific opportunity Scientists have worked out that WT1190F will plunge to Earth above the Indian Ocean on 13 November, making it one of the very few space objects whose impact can be accurately predicted. More unusual still, WT1190F was a lost piece of space debris orbitin...
The Glowing Halo of a Zombie Star The remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. This gives a glimpse of the far-f...
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