Title: Beyond Chandra - the X-ray Surveyor Author: Martin C. Weisskopf, Jessica Gaskin, Harvey Tananbaum, Alexey Vikhlinin Over the past 16 years, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has provided an unparalleled means for exploring the universe with its half-arcsecond angular resolution. Chan...
Volcano alert raised for Mount Hakone Japanese authorities raised the volcano alert for Mount Hakone, a popular tourist spot southwest of Tokyo, on Wednesday morning, anticipating a possible small eruption that could impact the nearby Owakudani hot spring district and calling on people to stay...
The 49 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 HQ43 will make a close pass (63.0 LD, 0.1618 AU) travelling at 2.94 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th May 2015 @ 06:29 UT ±03:50. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2005 JR5 will make a close pass (67.8 LD, 0.1742 AU) travelling at 18.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th May 2015 @ 12:01 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Australia's first dinosaur bone, the Cape Paterson Claw, a claw of a theropod, was discovered near to Eagles Nest, Bunurong Marine National Park, on the 7th May 1903 by William Hamilton Ferguson, a Victoria geologist who was searching for coal along the coast near the town of Inverloch. Read more
A possible magnitude 13.0 supernova was discovered by J. Skvarc (Crni Vrh Observatory) on the 17th March, 2012, in the spiral galaxy Messier 95 (NGC 3351) in the constellation Leo. The supernova is located 60" West and 115" South from the center of the galaxy.As yet they type is unknown. P...
Title: PHL 1445: An eclipsing cataclysmic variable with a substellar donor near the period minimum Author: M. J. McAllister (1), S. P. Littlefair (1), I. Baraffe (2), V. S. Dhillon (1), T. R. Marsh (3), J. Bento (7), J. Bochinski (6), M. C. P. Bours (3), E. Breedt (3), C. M. Copperwheat (4), L. K. Hardy (...
Title: A New Catalogue of Type 1 AGN and its Implication on the AGN Unified Model Author: Kyuseok Oh, Sukyoung K. Yi, Kevin Schawinski, Michael Koss, Benny Trakhtenbrot We have newly identified a substantial number of type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN) featuring weak broad-line regions (BLRs) at...
Title: Microlensing events from the 11-year observations of the Wendelstein Calar Alto Pixellensing Project Author: C.-H. Lee (1,2), A. Riffeser (1,2), S. Seitz (1,2), R. Bender (1,2), J. Koppenhoefer (2,1) ((1) University Observatory Munich, (2) Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial P...
Title: Jellyfish galaxies at low redshift Author: B.M. Poggianti, G. Fasano, A. Omizzolo, M. Gullieuszik, D. Bettoni, A. Moretti, A. Paccagnella, Y. L. Jaffe', B. Vulcani, J. Fritz, W. Couch, M. D'Onofrio Jellyfish galaxies are galaxies that exhibit tentacles of debris material suggestive of g...
Title: The unusual quadruple system HD 91962 with a "planetary" architecture Author: Andrei Tokovinin, David W. Latham, Brian D. Mason The young nearby solar-type star HD 91962 is a rare quadruple system where three companions revolve around the main component with periods of 170.3 d...
The Hubble Space Telescope captures the distant blue-green world, Neptune, and its satellites in this portrait. Astronomers used Hubble’s assortment of filters to pinpoint high altitude cloud...
Join the search for 'space warps' Online volunteers are being asked to search for 'space warps', very rare massive galaxies that bend light around them so that they act rather like giant lenses in space. By looking through data that has never been seen by human eyes, citizen scientists can help astro...
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