The 62 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2015 CR made a close pass (75.3 lunar distances, 0.1935 AU) travelling at 6.74 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2015 @ 04:52 UT ±18:52. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
Physicists have confirmed that neutrinos, which are thought to have played a key role during the creation of the Universe, have mass.
This is the first major finding of the US-based Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (Minos) experiment.
The findings suggest that the Standard Model...
Title: ASAS-SN 13cl : A Newly-Discovered Cataclysmic Binary with an Anomalously Warm Secondary Author: John R. Thorstensen The spectrum of the recently discovered cataclysmic variable star (CV) ASAS-SN 13cl shows that a secondary star with spectral type K4 (± 2 subclasses) contributes roughl...
Title: Status of the GAMMA-400 Project Authors: A. M. Galper, O. Adriani, R. L. Aptekar, I. V. Arkhangelskaja, A. I. Arkhangelskiy, M. Boezio, V. Bonvicini, K. A. Boyarchuk, Yu. V. Gusakov, M. O. Farber, M. I. Fradkin, V. A. Kachanov, V. A. Kaplin, M. D. Kheymits, A. A. Leonov, F. Longo, P. Maestro, P....
Canyon carved by three short, savage floods Geologists have discovered that a huge canyon in Iceland was created by just a few days of catastrophic flooding, separated by thousands of years. Read more
The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid (416032) 2002 EX11 will make a close pass (65.6 LD, 0.1686 AU) travelling at 4.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2015 @ 18:32 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2015 CG will make a close pass (7.1 LD, 0.0182 AU) travelling at 12.09 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2015 @ 13:14 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
The 51 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 BP4 will make a close pass (41.0 LD, 0.1054 AU) travelling at 11.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th February 2015 @ 03:15 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Four panel photo-mosaic captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and vesta pro webcam. Motorised EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter. Prime focus. Light hazy clouds
A supplemental draft environmental impact statement has been published for the proposed Advanced Technology Solar Telescope atop Haleakala. The deadline for public comments is June 22. Read more
Title: Discovery of Resolved Debris Disk Around HD 131835 Author: Li-Wei Hung, Michael P. Fitzgerald, Christine H. Chen, Tushar Mittal, Paul G. Kalas, James R. Graham We report the discovery of the resolved disk around HD 131835 and present the analysis and modelling of its thermal emission. HD 13...
Possible missing link between young and old galaxies University of California, Berkeley, astronomers may have found the missing link between gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as "red and dead." In a poster to be presented...
NGC 7789 (also Caroline's Rose Cluster, White Rose Cluster and OCL 269) is a magnitude +6.7 open star cluster located 7,600 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. The cluster was discovered by German astronomer Caroline Lucretia Herschel using a 10.67 cm (4.2 inch) 24x f/6.3 (690 mm fo...
Alamo Impact Crater: New Study Could Double Its Size Carbonate rock deposits found within the mountain ranges of south-central Nevada, USA, record evidence of a catastrophic impact event known as the Alamo impact. This event occurred roughly 382 million years ago when the ancient seafloor was st...
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