* Astronomy

Title: DE0823-49 is a juvenile binary brown dwarf at 20.7 pc Author: J. Sahlmann, A. J. Burgasser, E. L. Martín, P. F. Lazorenko, D. C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, M. Mayor, D. Ségransan, D. Queloz, S. Udry Astrometric monitoring of the nearby early-L dwarf DE0823-49 has revealed a low-mass companion in a 2...

Asteroid 4979 Otawara passes near Jupiter at 00:46 UT, 2nd June 2015. Magnitude +20.0(?) 00:46 UT

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Photo mosaic of the 0.96% Phase midnight moon captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount.

W Cygni is a semi-regular red giant variable star located 618 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It has a magnitude range of +5.10 and +6.83, with a period of 131 days. The variable star was discovered by amateur Irish astronomer John Ellard Gore (1845-1910) in 1884 Right ascension 21h 3...

Ambitious plans to send probes to the outer planets are being considered by US and European space officials. One proposal envisages sending an orbiter to Saturn which would also drop a lander and a balloon on to the haze-shrouded moon Titan. The other sees two separate orbiters despatched to invest...

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Orbital elements: 2014 DN112 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0040 AU Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5 MPC M 15.44608 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39322612 Peri. 145.90928 +0.68880039 -0.72120701 a 1.8451902 Node 260.43359 +0.64738453 +0.65760531 e 0.4908395 Incl. 4.27943 +0.32626261 +0.21775148 P 2.51 H 1...

A major magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at 02:46:30 (UTC) on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, near the East coast of Honshu, Japan. Location 38.400°N, 141.800°E It occurred at a Depth of 55 km, 82 km East Northeast from Sendai, Honshu, Japan. [url=http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/...

Meteorites No historic meteorite falls today

The 6 - 14 metre wide asteroid 2015 KK120 will make a close pass (24.3 LD, 0.0623 AU) travelling at 3.19 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st May 2015 @ 14:04 UT ±02:16. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 12 - 26 metre wide asteroid 2015 KQ120 will make a close pass (8.5 LD, 0.0219 AU) travelling at 7.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st May 2015 @ 20:36 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

A volcano exploded Friday morning on sparsely populated Kuchinoerabu Island, sending smoke and ash soaring into the sky above Kagoshima Prefecture and residents fleeing to the safety of nearby Yakushima Island. Read more

Title: Blasting away a dwarf galaxy: The "tail" of ESO 324-G024 Author: Megan C. Johnson, Peter Kamphuis, Baerbel S. Koribalski, Jing Wang, Se-Heon Oh, Alex Hil, Shane O'Sullivan, Sebastian Haan, Paolo Serra We present Australia Telescope Compact Array radio data of the dwarf irregu...

Title: Chandra/HETGS Observations of the Capella System: the Primary as a Dominating X-ray Source Authors: Kazunori Ishibashi, Daniel Dewey, David P. Huenemoerder, Paola Testa Using the Chandra/High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (hereafter HETGS) resea...