University Boat Race takes over Bristol Harbourside Bristol's floating harbour will once again play host to the Annual Varsity Boat Race on Saturday [21 March 2015], in a day of fierce competition which pits the University of Bristol against the University of the West of England (UWE). Read more
Orbital elements:
2015 DO223 Earth MOID = 0.0274 AU
Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC
M 15.30814 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27710788 Peri. 239.57681 -0.31271660 +0.94948027
a 2.3300762 Node 12.28549 -0.82341939 -0.25714792
e 0.6960954 Incl. 7.11973 -0.47348583 -0.17989484
P 3.56 H 23.2 G...
The 420 - 940 metre wide asteroid 2014 YY8 will make a close pass (58.0 LD, 0.1491 AU) travelling at 14.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st March 2015 @ 09:24 UT ±00:06. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2015 BO510 will make a close pass (44.4 LD, 0.1141 AU) travelling at 15.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st March 2015 @ 12:50 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Title: The Red Radio Ring: a gravitationally lensed hyperluminous infrared radio galaxy at z=2.553 discovered through citizen science Author: J. E. Geach (Hertfordshire), A. More, A. Verma, P. J. Marshall, N. Jackson, P.-E. Belles, R. Beswick, E. Baeten, M. Chavez, C. Cornen, B. E. Cox, T. Erben...
Title: A Candidate Neutron Star Associated with Galactic Center Supernova
Remnant Sagittarius A EastAuthors: Sangwook Park (Penn State), Michael P. Muno (UCLA), Frederick K.
Baganoff (MIT), Yo****omo Maeda (ISAS), Mark Morris (UCLA), George Chartas
(Penn State)...
Two panel photo-mosaic of Sunspot 2303 captured with a 8" f5 reflector and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ5 Mount and Test 50mm solar filter made from a Typhoo tea-bag foil . Prime focus. VERY hazy sky, cloud
'World's oldest railway tunnel' awarded protected status What is believed to be the world's oldest railway tunnel - dating from 1793 - has been given protected status. Fritchley Tunnel was built as part of the Butterley Gangroad, a horse-operated railway linking the Cromford Canal with quarries...
VEGA prepares for first "American" launch next year After the success of its first four launches, including the recent launch of the experimental IXV re-entry vehicle on 11 February, VEGA will be bringing satellites made by US company Skybox Imaging into orbit in 2016. Read more
Title: Kinematics of Arp 270: gas flows, nuclear activity, and two regimes of star formation Authors: J. Zaragoza-Cardiel (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Font-Serra (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. E. Beckman (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), J. Blasco-Herrera (I...
Is Titan submarine the most daring space mission yet? Scientists are proposing to send a robot submarine to the oily seas of Saturn's moon Titan. The seas are filled not with water, but with hydrocarbons like methane and ethane. Read more
Title: Intermediate Old Star Clusters in a Young Starburst: The case of NGC 5253 Authors: D. Harbeck, J. Gallagher III, D. Crnojevic We investigate the star cluster population in the outer parts of the starburst galaxy NGC 5253 using archive images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced...