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97 Herculis (HD 164900) is a magnitude +6.22 blue main-sequence star located 752 light years away in the constellation Hercules. Right Ascension: 18h 2m 30.153s, Declination: +22° 55' 23.627" Date: 21.04.15

Alpha Delphini (also Sualocin) is a magnitude +3.8 blue-white hued main sequence multiple star, located 241 light-years away in the constellation Delphinus. Date 21.04.15 The nearby bright star is HD 196775

NGC 6738 (also KPR2004b 459, Collinder 396 and OCL 101) is a magnitude +8.3 open star cluster located in the constellation Aquila. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Slough, England, on the 29th July 182...

The 18 - 41 metre wide asteroid 2015 HH9 will make a close pass (26.3 LD, 0.0676 AU) travelling at 6.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd April 2015 @ 15:07 UT ±00:32. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

New mass extinction event proposed by geologists Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by five mass extinction events that are widely recognised by geologists. Now, an international team of researchers proposes adding a sixth mass extinction to the list. The team beli...

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Like tartan, bagpipes, and shortbread Scotland's Loch Ness Monster is as much an emblem as a tourist draw. And now Nessie's back. An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness Monster watchers say is among the finest footage ever taken of the elusive mythical creature reputed to swim beneath the...

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The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2015 HN1 made a close pass (21.3 LD, 0.0547 AU) travelling at 4.39 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th April 2015 @ 14:35 UT ±00:46. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2015 HD1 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 8.02478 (2000.0) P Q n 0.29715785 Peri. 58.09115 -0.01913157 +0.99878614 a 2.2240502 Node 210.91037 -0.94456519 -0.03293832 e 0.6312343 Incl. 5.06920 -0.32776605 +0.03662382 P 3.32 H 27.3 G 0.1...

Tanpopo mission to search space for origins of life Japan will begin a unique scientific project called the "Tanpopo mission" on the International Space Station (ISS), aiming to find and catch substances flying in space that may be the origin of life-forms. Read more

The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise. The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other norm...

Title: Maximum Reduced Proper Motion Method: Detection of New Nearby Ultracool Dwarfs Authors: N. Phan-Bao (HCMIU, Vietnam National University) In this paper, we describe how to use the Maximum Reduced Proper Motion method (Phan-Bao et al. 2003) to detect 57 nearby L and late-M dwarfs (d_phot &l...