* Astronomy

Title: Type II Supernovae as Probes of Cosmology Authors: Dovi Poznanski, Eddie Baron, Stephane Blondin, Joshua S. Bloom, Christopher B. D'Andrea, Massimo Della Valle, Luc Dessart, Richard S. Ellis, Avishay Gal-Yam, Ariel Goobar, Mario Hamuy, Malcolm Hicken, Daniel N. Kasen, Kevin L. Krisciu...

Spanish researchers discover the first black hole orbiting a 'spinning' star Spanish scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a 'spinning' star - or more accurately, a Be-type star. Although predicted by theory, none had previously been found. T...

NGC 362 (also ESO 51-SC13 and GCL 3) is a magnitude +6.3 globular star cluster located about 28,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector at Paramatt...

Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely including our own sun, grew up in cosmic turmoil, as illustrated in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The imag...

Title: The Milky Way Project: What are Yellowballs? Author: C. R. Kerton, G. Wolf-Chase, K. Arvidsson, C. J. Lintott, R. J. Simpson Yellowballs are a collection of approximately 900 compact, infrared sources identified and named by volunteers participating in the Milky Way Project (MWP), a citi...

Asteroid 2009 DT10 = 9D630A0 (NEOCPO) Orbital elements: 2009 DT10 Earth MOID = 0.0175 AU Epoch 2008 Nov. 30.0 TT = JDT 2454800.5 MPC M 348.82801 (2000.0) P Q n 0.34136037 Peri. 134.01282 +0.13776183 -0.98909027 a 2.0276546 Node 307.99689 +0.88874340 +0.14669443 e 0.6102464 Incl. 3.79615 +0.4372...

The 42 - 94 metre wide asteroid 2015 BF92 will make a close pass (8.5 lunar distances, 0.0219 AU) travelling at 14.00 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th February 2015 @ 22:08 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...

Comet P/2013 YG46 (Spacewatch) is at Opposition (3.405 AU) on the 7th February 2015 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2015 02 05 09 37 14.7 +24 51 03 3.4143 4.3874 169.5 2.3 19.1 2015 02 06 09 36 28.6 +24 54 57 3.4114 4.3852 169.8 2.3 19.1 2015 02 07 09 35 42.3 +24 58 47 3.4087 4.3...

Comet C/2013 U2 (Holvorcem) is at Opposition (4.968 AU) on the 30th November 2013 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 11 29 03 41 08.3 +68 38 46 4.9716 5.6838 132.4 7.4 18.5 2013 11 30 03 39 59.8 +68 39 34 4.9680 5.6806 132.5 7.4 18.5 2013 12 01 03 38 51.7 +68 40 12 4.9646 5.6774...

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Orbital elements: 2013 GF69 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0063 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 296.95647 (2000.0) P Q n 0.35194823 Peri. 152.88741 +0.85531682 +0.51794225 a 1.9867819 Node 175.84810 -0.50193437 +0.83457937 e 0.5088985 Incl. 10.34289 -0.12843297 +0.18765152 P 2.80...

Orbital Elements The following orbital elements are taken from MPC 69905: P/2006 S1 (Christensen) Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 T 2013 Mar. 16.9764 TT MPC q 1.359604 (2000.0) P Q n 0.1508504 Peri. 128.3002 +0.9405689 +0.3200243 a 3.494930 Node 213.4783 -0.3383159 +0.9120907 e 0...

Orbital elements: 2011 BY10 Earth MOID = 0.0020 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 23.11433 (2000.0) P Q n 0.49062594 Peri. 141.15521 +0.10541556 -0.99402440 a 1.5920952 Node 302.77641 +0.90375496 +0.10765347 e 0.4154756 Incl. 1.93149 +0.41486689 +0.01806189 P 2.01 H 27.0 G 0.15 U 7 MP...

The 67 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2015 CB made a close pass (21.0 lunar distances, 0.0539 AU) travelling at 9.91 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd February 2015 @ 05:11 UT ±00:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)....