* Astronomy

The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 KV18 made a close pass (48.5 LD, 0.1247 AU) travelling at 4.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May 2015 @ 22:05 UT ±09:45. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

The 12 - 27 metre wide asteroid 2015 KT56 made a close pass (10.0 LD, 0.0256 AU) travelling at 9.55 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May 2015 @ 14:11 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

On 2015 May 24 UT, the 43 km diameter asteroid (1669) Dagmar will occult a 1.4 mag star in the constellation Leo for observers along a path across Arabia. Read more

Anniversary of the Lunar Orbiter 4 Launch (1967) Lunar Orbiter 4 was designed to take advantage of the fact that the three previous Lunar Orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection. It was given a more general objective, to "perform a broad systematic ph...

Orbital elements: 2013 LG16 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0379 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 140.52393 (2000.0) P Q n 0.48573782 Peri. 208.60184 +0.13891912 -0.97635277 a 1.6027586 Node 233.88796 +0.94315547 +0.18143659 e 0.4338962 Incl. 11.83152 +0.30192587 -0.11754158 P 2.03...

Title: V409 Tau As Another AA Tau: Photometric Observations of Stellar Occultations by the Circumstellar Disk Author: Joseph E. Rodriguez, Joshua Pepper, Keivan G. Stassun, Robert J. Siverd, Phillip Cargile, David A. Weintraub, Thomas G. Beatty, B. Scott Gaudi, Eric E. Mamajek, Nicole Sanchez...

Title: Explosion of a massive, He-rich star at z=0.16 Author: N. Elias-Rosa, A. Pastorello, M. Nicholl, S. Valenti, S. Benetti, E. Cappellaro, M. Turatto, G. Altavilla, M. T. Botticella, L. A. G.Monard, M. Riello, L. Zampieri We present spectroscopic and photometric data of the peculiar SN 2001g...

Image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ5 Mount and Baader solar filter. DIY focal reducer made from a 30mm achromatic lens (10mm field stop added). Very hazy sky, high blanket cloud

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The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2013 YG will make a close pass (49.7 lunar distances, 0.1276 AU), travelling at 4.61 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd July 2014 @ 22:45 UT ±01:50. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...

ATel 7374: MASTER: 2 dwarf novae and bright comet discovery in Gagarin's dayOrbital elements: C/2015 G2 (MASTER) T 2015 May 23.80224 TT MPCW q 0.7797702 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 257.47788 -0.69948087 -0.50665954 Node 110.05661 -0.23771951 +0.83004395 e 1.0 Incl. 147.55120 -0.67395545 +0.233...

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Title: The Eccentric Accretion Disc of the Black Hole A0620-00 Authors: J. Neilsen (Harvard University), D. Steeghs (CfA/Warwick), S.D. Vrtilek (CfA) We present spectroscopic observations of the quiescent black hole binary A0620-00 with the the 6.5-m Magellan Clay telescope at Las Campanas O...

Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty' Astronomers have spent decades trying to determine the oddball behaviour of an ageing star nicknamed "Nasty 1" residing in our Milky Way galaxy. Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more...

WISE Spacecraft Discovers Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy found to date and belongs to a new class of o...