* Astronomy

A ten billion-year stellar dance The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a globular cluster. Mutual gravitational attraction among a cluster's hundreds of thousands...

Abell 1307 is a clusters of Galaxies located in the constellation Leo. Right Ascension 11h 32m 51.2s, Declination +14° 28' 22"

Messier 96 (also M96, NGC 3368, UGC 5882 and PGC 32192) is a magnitude +10.1 spiral galaxy located 31 ±3 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. M96 is the brightest galaxy within the M96 Group, a group of galaxies in the constellation Leo that includes the Messier objects M95 and M105, as w...

A blank looking eastern limb The western limb with sunspot 12290

CubeSats offered deep-space ride on ESA asteroid probe ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. Teams of researchers and companies from any ESA Member State are free to compete. The selected CubeSats will become Europes first to travel beyond Earth orbit once the Asteroi...

'Once in a lifetime' daytime meteors heard exploding into Earth's atmosphere over Victoria Bangs, tremors and even "explosions" were reported to GeoScience Australia (GA) in Victoria and southern NSW as four meteors were believed to have entered the Earth's atmosphere on Wednesday...

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The 1100 - 2400 metre wide asteroid 2000 EE14 will make a close pass (64.6 lunar distances, 0.1659 AU), travelling at 15.06 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 6th March 2014 @ 21:40 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...

Earth Coorbital Asteroid 2003 YN107 is making a close flyby today. The asteroid's corkscrew path is lopsided and on June 10th it will dip within 3.4 million km of the Earth, slightly closer than usual. Earth's gravity...

Orbital elements: 2014 TA36 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0393 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 346.59389 (2000.0) P Q n 0.23412069 Peri. 254.12657 -0.56288430 -0.82278345 a 2.6072110 Node 230.39784 +0.79202454 -0.50971731 e 0.6774698 Incl. 5.86019 +0.23634381 -0.25142723 P 4.21 H 2...

Comet 120P/Mueller makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.875 AU) on the 25th September, 2012

ESAs orbiting gamma-ray observatory, Integral has revealed a new population of exotic and dusty binary stars which might represent a brief evolutionary period in a binary stars life. The findings bring to light a gap in our knowledge of the formation and evolution of such binary star systems. Sin...

Pink cloud visible in Arizona after New Mexico rocket launch A NASA Terrier-Black Brant research rocket was launched from White Sands Missile Range, in N.M. early Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 Read more

Chandra Finds Intriguing Member of Black Hole Family Tree Astronomers have combined the X-ray and radio data to determine that NGC 2766-3c is likely an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). As the name suggests, IMBHs are black holes that are larger than stellar-mass black holes that contain abou...