* Astronomy

Photo-mosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

NGC 2115 (also ESO 205-6, IRAS 05501-5036 and PGC 18001) is a magnitude +13.2 Spiral (S0-a) galaxy located 320 million light-years away in the constellation Pictor. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at the...

UK Super-strength tuberculosis Doctors in Glasgow are treating the UK's first diagnosed case of the drug-resistant XDR tuberculosis strain. Read more

Large Mars crater named for late ASU professor Ronald Greeley A large, ancient crater - nearly as wide as Arizona - now carries the name of Greeley Crater, in honour of the Mars science pioneer and longtime professor of planetary science. Read more

NGC 2359, better known as the Thor's Helmet nebula, is actually more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud. The central star is an extremely hot giant Wolf-Rayet star, thought to be in a br...

Seen at even slight magnification, the bright double star Albireo shows the strikingly different colours of the two component stars. At 380 light years distant, the two bright stars of Albireo are comparatively far from each other and take over 7000 years to complete a single orbit. ...

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The 230 - 520 metre wide asteroid 2014 WP365 will make a close pass (45.9 LD, 0.1181 AU) travelling at 14.47 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st April 2015 @ 17:04 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).

Orbital elements: 2015 BY310 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0236 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 299.10402 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49195346 Peri. 229.21845 -0.94753311 +0.31662347 a 1.5892298 Node 329.16597 -0.26134951 -0.84648828 e 0.4022141 Incl. 4.91771 -0.18405827 -0.42802707 P 2.00 H...

Orbital elements: 2015 HE1 Earth MOID = 0.0024 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 8.14762 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57953460 Peri. 79.22751 +0.36480669 +0.93052332 a 1.4247865 Node 212.22732 -0.87616608 +0.33135011 e 0.4932394 Incl. 3.47103 -0.31503822 +0.15599187 P 1.70 H 26.4 G 0.1...

Comet C/2014 G1 (PANSTARRS) makes its closest approach to the Earth (4.679 AU) on the 17th May 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 05 16 16 11 45.0 -03 32 21 4.6793 5.6471 161.5 3.3 19.9 2014 05 17 16 10 27.1 -03 28 25 4.6790 5.6489 161.9 3.2 19.9 2014 05 18 16 09 09.1 -03 24...

Epsilon Lyrae ( Lyr, Lyrae), also known as the Double Double, is a multiple star system approximately 162 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. Read more I couldn't split the individual pairs with my homemade 76mm reflector...

93 Herculis (HD 164349) is a magnitude +4.67 orange giant star located 656 light-years away in the constellation Hercules. Date: 18.04.15 Look for the nice snaking trail of stars that contains two striking blue-orange stars nearby. 10 x 4 second frames captured with a 8" f5 reflector and Ca...

University of Michigan astronomers combined light from four widely separated telescopes to produce the first picture showing surface details on a sun-like star beyond our solar system. The image of the rapidly rotating, hot star Altair is the most detailed stellar picture ever made using an inno...

The yellow giant star Zeta Cygni (HD 202109) is located in the constellation Cygnus. Zeta Cygni is a binary star, the secondary is a white dwarf. The pair orbit each other every 6,489 days (17.8 years), Date: 18.04.15 The pleasantly contrasting blue star (upper right) is HD 201490. 32 x 4 second fra...