SNAP-10A was an experimental nuclear reactor launched into space in 1965. The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program (SNAP) reactor was developed under the SNAPSHOT program overseen by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Read more SNAP-10A :- Systems Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program [spoiler]...
The 50 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 EQ7 will make a close pass (33.8 LD, 0.0868 AU) travelling at 5.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th April 2015 @ 22:59 UT ±2 days 11:25. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 37 - 83 metre wide asteroid 2015 FB34 will make a close pass (22.4 LD, 0.0575 AU) travelling at 6.89 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th April 2015 @ 15:58 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: 2010 HX107 Earth MOID = 0.0144 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 275.97248 (2000.0) P Q n 1.39005309 Peri. 353.23221 +0.71386849 -0.69862483 a 0.7951489 Node 51.20291 +0.64535346 +0.62964701 e 0.3117520 Incl. 3.53950 +0.27186521 +0.33980581 P 0.71 H 23.1 G 0.15 U 9...
New observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope of a young star show that it is like our own solar system when it was forming.
The star is surrounded by a disk of dust, the sort of "protoplanetary" disk from which planets formed around our Sun, according to theory. In the disk is a gap that ast...
Title: Evolution of the Water Maser Expanding Shell in W75N VLA 2 Authors: Jeong-Sook Kim (1,2), Soon-Wook Kim (2,), Tomoharu Kurayama (3,4), Mareki Honma (5), Tesuo Sasao (6), Gabriele Surcis (7), Jorge Canto (8), Jose M. Torrelles (9), Sang Joon Kim (1) ((1) Kyunghee University, (2) Korea Astro...
Title: The close T Tauri binary system V4046 Sgr: Rotationally modulated X-ray emission from accretion shocks Authors: C. Argiroffi (1,2), A. Maggio (2), T. Montmerle (3), D. P. Huenemoerder (4), E. Alecian (5), M. Audard (6,7), J. Bouvier (8), F. Damiani (2), J.-F. Donati (9), S. G. Gregory (10),...
Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spa...
Title: Direct Imaging Discovery of a 'Super-Jupiter' Around the late B-Type Star Kappa And Authors: J. Carson, C. Thalmann, M. Janson, T. Kozakis, M. Bonnefoy, B. Biller, J. Schlieder, T. Currie, M. McElwain, M. Goto, T. Henning, W. Brandner, M. Feldt, R. Kandori, M. Kuzuhara, L. Stevens, P. Wong,...
The Beehive Cluster (also known as Praesepe (Latin for "manger"), M44 or NGC 2632) is a magnitude +3.7 open cluster located ~520-610 light-years away in the constellation Cancer. It looks like a nebulous object to the naked eye under dark skies, and thus has been known since ancient time...
Orbital elements:
2015 FS332 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0444 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 334.19897 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.40122393 Peri. 135.33804 +0.82662186 +0.54591607
a 1.8205872 Node 193.66708 -0.51874586 +0.83330509
e 0.4783670 Incl. 35.33247 +0.21817205 -0.08705329
P 2.4...
Hubble Finds Phantom Objects Near Dead Quasars NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded. The ethereal wisps outside the host galaxy are believed to have been illuminated by po...
Dusty substructure in a galaxy far far away A team of scientists, among whom scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) and astronomer John McKean (ASTRON/ University of Groningen), have combined high-resolution images from the ALMA telescopes with a new scheme for undoing th...
