* Astronomy

Comet 6P/d'Arrest was at Opposition (4.036 AU) on the 27th February, 2013

NGC 7309 (also MCG -2-57-16, IRAS22317-1036 and PGC 69183) is a magnitude +12.5 barred spiral galaxy located 184 million light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum refle...

R Andromedae (R And) is a Mira-type variable star in the constellation Andromeda. Its spectral class is type S, because it shows absorption bands of zirconium monoxide in its spectrum. It was among the stars found by Paul Merrill to show absorption lines of the unstable element technetium, establi...

Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the transitional animal, wh...

The AMS received over 70 reports this morning of a bright fiery object travelling from the east to the west over northern Colorado. Many of the witnesses reported a slow moving object with a long duration spanning 20 seconds. Read more

Orbital elements: 2015 EN Earth MOID = 0.0220 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 44.34040 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30575039 Peri. 316.39019 -0.55452825 -0.83177469 a 2.1821840 Node 167.21815 +0.79160917 -0.53669838 e 0.5698807 Incl. 6.61367 +0.25661905 -0.14179463 P 3.22 H 26.4 G 0....

An internet cafe offering connections 50 times faster than typical broadband services has opened in Cornwall. Computers at Goonhilly satellite station, on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, are connected to BT's global internet protocol network. That means users can download data at speed...

A Grand Extravaganza of New Stars This dramatic landscape in the southern constellation of Ara (The Altar) is a treasure trove of celestial objects. Star clusters, emission nebulae and active star-forming regions are just some of the riches observed in this region lying some 4000 light-years fro...

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On 2015 March 12, asteroid (498) Tokio will occult a 5.6 mag star in the constellation Aries for observers along a path across Philippines. Read more

NGC 3953 (also UGC 6870, and PGC 37306) is a magnitude +10.8 barred spiral galaxy located about 64 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy may have been recorded (as M109 ?) by Charles Messier on the 24th March 1781. NGC 3953 was independently discovered by German-Brit...

Title: RCS2 J232727.6-020437: An Efficient Cosmic Telescope at z=0.6986 Author: Austin Hoag, Marua Bradac, Kuang-Han Huang, Russell E. Ryan Jr., Keren Sharon, Tim Schrabback, Kasper B. Schmidt, Benjamin Cain, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Hendrik Hildebrandt, Joannah L. Hinz, Brian C. Lemaux, Anja v...

Title: AstroStat - A VO Tool for Statistical Analysis Author: Ajit K. Kembhavi, Ashish A. Mahabal, Tejas Kale, Santosh Jagade, Ajay Vibhute, Prerak Garg, Kaustubh Vaghmare, Sharmad Navelkar, Tushar Agrawal, Deoyani Nandrekar, Mohasin Shaikh AstroStat is an easy-to-use tool for performing st...

Do you have a favourite phase of the moon? Romantics will almost certainly be drawn to the full moon, but during its 29.5-day cycle, going from one new moon to the next, our satellite offers up plenty of other choices. There's the precise semicircle of a first or last quarter moon. And maybe you've be...