An international team of astronomers led by François Bouchy has announced the discovery of a new transiting extra-solar planet.
The planet HD189733b, in the constellation Vulpecula, was detected and studied by the combination of two different methods, radial velocities and photome...
Title: KMT-2015-1b: a Giant Planet Orbiting a Low-mass Dwarf Host Star Discovered by a New High-cadence Microlensing Survey with a Global Telescope Network Author: K.-H. Hwang, C. Han, J.-Y.Choi, H. Park, Y. K. Jung, I.-G. Shin, M. D. Albrow, A. Gould, V. Bozza, B.-G. Park, S.-L. Kim, C.-U. Lee, S....
Title: The Young and Bright Type Ia Supernova ASASSN-14lp: Discovery, Early-Time Observations, First-Light Time, Distance to NGC 4666, and Progenitor Constraints Author: B. J. Shappee, A. L. Piro, T. W.-S. Holoien, J. L. Prieto, C. Contreras, K. Itagaki, C. R. Burns, C. S. Kochanek, K. Z. Stanek...
Title: Correlated X-ray/Ultraviolet/Optical variability in the very low mass AGN NGC 4395 Authors: D. T. Cameron, I. Mc Hardy, T. Dwelly, E. Breedt, P. Uttley, P. Lira, P. Arevalo We report the results of a one year Swift X-ray/UV/optical programme monitoring the dwarf Seyfert nucleus in NGC 4395...
Title: Total eclipse of the heart: The AM CVn Gaia14aae / ASSASN-14cn Author: H. C. Campbell, T. R. Marsh, M. Fraser, S.T. Hodgkin, E. de Miguel, B. T. Gänsicke, D. Steeghs, A. Hourihane, E. Breedt, S. P. Littlefair, S. E. Koposov, L. Wyrzykowski, G. Altavilla, N. Blagorodnova, G. Clementini, G. Dam...
Mintaka is a star some 916 light years distant in the constellation Orion. It has a Bayer designation of Delta Orionis and a Flamsteed designation of 34 Orionis. Read more
The Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra were found by the Hubble Space Telescope Pluto Companion Search Team, composed of Hal A. Weaver, S. Alan Stern, Max J. Mutchler, Andrew J. Steffl, Marc W. Buie, William J. Merline, John R. Spencer, Eliot F. Young, and Leslie A. Young. The discovery images were t...
Shortly before the Apollo 11 mission, perched on its massive Saturn rocket, thundered off from Cape Kennedy to accomplish its historic manned landing on the Moon in July 1969, there was a singular encounter you don't often hear about. A protest group of some 300 members of the Poor People's...
The 280 - 630 metre wide asteroid 2015 OH made a close pass (55.5 LD, 0.1426 AU) travelling at 8.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July 2015 @ 03:01 UT ±00:47. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
A star chart carved in an ancient tomb in Japan is believed to be the world's oldest. The Kitora Tomb, located near the village of Asuka in Japan's Nara Prefecture, is known for gorgeous, colourful paintings at the four cardinal points of the compass. A black tortoise guards the north of the ancient tu...
Nigel Richard Wood, (1949 July 21 York) British engineer Payload Specialist 2 astronaut, aboard the cancelled Space Shuttle mission STS-61-H in June 1986. Selected April 1985 to fly on the British Skynet Program. Joined the publicity team of the Royal Air Force. Then stationed at Ministry of Defe...
Orbital elements: 2010 PR66 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0027 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 7.22612 (2000.0) P Q n 0.21584374 Peri. 315.88606 -0.27238010 +0.92977036 a 2.7523886 Node 296.84923 -0.78794824 -0.36326296 e 0.6740557 Incl. 16.11616 -0.55221976 +0.05972525 P 4.57 H 19.5 G 0.1...
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