* Astronomy

The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid (303450) 2005 BY2 will make a close pass (61.5 LD, 0.1580 AU) travelling at 6.64 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th March 2015 @ 18:40 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: Split Two-Higgs-Doublet Model and Neutrino Condensation Authors: Authors: Fei Wang, Wenyu Wang, Jin Min Yang (revised v3) We split the two-Higgs-doublet model by assuming very different vevs for the two doublets: the vev is at weak scale (174 GeV) for the doublet...

Two panel photo-mosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter. Prime focus. Hazy sky

Title: One of the closest planet pairs to the 3:2 Mean Motion Resonance, confirmed with K2 observations and Transit Timing Variations: EPIC201505350 Author: David J. Armstrong, Dimitri Veras, Susana C. C. Barros, Olivier Demangeon, James McCormac, Hugh P. Osborn, Jorge Lillo-Box, Alexandre S...

Orbital elements: C/2010 X1 (Elenin) T 2010 Apr. 1.80995 TT MPC q 5.1516487 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 181.19274 -0.77551263 -0.63111764 Node 319.65918 +0.57944608 -0.70118937 e 1.0 Incl. 1.45638 +0.25064398 -0.33169865 From 33 observations 2010 Dec. 10-12. MPEC 2010 - X101 Comet C/2010 X1 (EL...

ATel 7165: SALT spectral classification of MASTER OT J074858.45-655344.6.5 as a likely Dwarf Nova in outburst

Orbital elements: 2003 LN6 Earth MOID = 0.0005 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 16.85642 (2000.0) P Q n 1.24333925 Peri. 210.74606 +0.40238647 -0.91544717 a 0.8565307 Node 215.52763 +0.84216815 +0.37292045 e 0.2103855 Incl. 0.63594 +0.35894002 +0.15128386 P 0.79 H 24.6 G 0....

Mexico Targets 2014 Launch for Satmex 7 Satellite Contracts have been signed with U.S.-based Boeing Satellite Systems International and Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, for the construction, launch and insertion into orbit of the $350 million Satmex 7 satellite, Satelites Mexican...

ABS celebrates the launch of the ground-breaking ABS-3A satellite to connect the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. 1 March, 2015 - ABS announced that ABS-3A was successfully launched. Read more

Europe's oldest known civilisation has been discovered by archaeologists across the continent, The Independent newspaper in London said on Saturday. More than 150 large temples, constructed between 4800BC and 4600BC, have been unearthed in fields and cities in Germany, Austria and Slova...

This weekend sees the launch of the Oxfordshire Science Festival 2010 (6-21 March) that will bring over 100 fun and fascinating science events to venues across the county. Many of these events are organised by or involve Oxford University staff and students. You can browse the full programme on the...

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Begins Legacy Survey of the Submillimetre Sky A new survey of the universe is underway at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT), on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, which will give astronomers a new perspective on the origins of the planets, stars, galaxies and the U...

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Astronomers find newborn stars at the edge of the Galaxy The new clusters, named Camargo 438 and 439, are within the molecular cloud HRK 81.4-77.8. This cloud is thought to be about 2 million years old and is around 16000 light years beneath the galactic disk, an enormous distance away from the usual r...

An Old-looking Galaxy in a Young Universe One of the most distant galaxies ever observed has provided astronomers with the first detection of dust in such a remote star-forming system and tantalising evidence for the rapid evolution of galaxies after the Big Bang. The new observations have used AL...