* Astronomy

Rare German Enigma expected 'to fetch £60,000' at auction A rare German Enigma enciphering machine is expected to fetch up to £60,000 in an auction on Wednesday. Read more

Title: VVV DR1: The First Data Release of the Milky Way Bulge and Southern Plane from the Near-Infrared ESO Public Survey VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Authors: R. K. Saito, M. Hempel, D. Minniti, P. W. Lucas, M. Rejkuba, I. Toledo, O. A. Gonzalez, J. Alonso-Garcia, M. J. Irwin, E. Gonzalez-Solar...

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The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2015 BQ509 will make a close pass (51.3 lunar distances, 0.1319 AU) travelling at 8.17 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February 2015 @ 17:11 UT ±01:15. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

The 69 - 150 metre wide asteroid 2015 BX509 will make a close pass (35.4 lunar distances, 0.0910 AU) travelling at 12.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February 2015 @ 15:23 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 2015 AY245 will make a close pass (72.4 lunar distances, 0.1861 AU) travelling at 9.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th February 2015 @ 08:43 UT ±00:04. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

Solar Storm Forecast 02-04-2015

Solar Storm Forecast 02-04-2015

Australia dig unearths Batavia mutiny skeleton The skeleton of a victim from one of Australia's most famous shipwrecks has been unearthed by archaeologists. The remains on Beacon Island, off Western Australia, date from the wreck of the Dutch East India ship the Batavia in 1629. Read more

Fossil hunters have uncovered the greatest rodent that ever lived -- a one-tonne behemoth that bestrode the swamplands of South America four million years ago. Read more

Crater Langrenus in Mare Fecunditatis captured with a 4" refractor and Vesta pro webcam. 2X Barlow lens. Light yellow filter and IR-cut filter

The moon and Jupiter on the 3rd February 2015.

Asteroid (71) Niobe is at Opposition on the 23rd April, 2011. Distance to Sun=2.276 AU Distance to Earth=1.403 AU Magnitude=10.4 Position(2000): RA =12h 48m 13.795s, Dec = - 48° 03' 43.16" (71) Niobe is a quite large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Robert Luther on August 13, 1861...

Orbital elements: 2014 MJ6 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0041 AU Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 318.71381 (2000.0) P Q n 0.39418050 Peri. 102.24464 +0.96705071 -0.24226730 a 1.8422107 Node 271.81417 +0.19236113 +0.89662234 e 0.6416641 Incl. 4.48892 +0.16676364 +0.37064124 P 2.50 H 21...

NASA has released it’s plans for the next generation spacecraft. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin today released the results of the agency's exploration architecture study – a blueprint for the next generation of spacecraft to take humans back to the moon and on to Mars and other destination...

Recreating a pioneering 1940s computer The recreation of the pioneering EDSAC computer has begun, with the manufacture of parts of its chassis starting in Cambridge. EDSAC was designed by Professor Maurice Wilkes and first ran software in 1949, and has been credited with assisting many importan...