* Astronomy

Title: ALMA Multi-line Observations of the IR-bright Merger VV 114 Author: Toshiki Saito, Daisuke Iono, Min S. Yun, Junko Ueda, Kouichiro Nakanishi, Hajime Sugai, Daniel Espada, Masatoshi Imanishi, Kentaro Motohara, Yoshiaki Hagiwara, Ken Tateuchi, Minju Lee, Ryohei Kawabe We present ALMA c...

The Battle of Bolimov was an inconclusive battle of World War I fought on January 31, 1915 between Germany and Russia. The Battle of Bolimów was the first attempt by the Germans at a large-scale use of poison gas; the eighteen thousand gas shells they fired proved unsuccessful when the xylyl bromide...

The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2008 CQ will make a close pass (4.8 lunar distances, 0.0124 AU) travelling at 11.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 31st January 2015 @ 01:20 UT ±2 days 05:21. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...

New exhibition explores our relationship with outer-space A new art exhibition at The Winchester Gallery is set to explore outer-space and the 'human act of gazing upwards'. Fourteen international artists will display their work in the visual arts venue at the University of Southamptons, Winch...

Jupiter and two moons captured with an 8" reflector and Vesta pro webcam. Hazy conditions

Mercury: at magnitude -0.8, starts the month in the constellation of Sagittarius. Mercury is close (separation 38.5') to Venus on the 11th January. Mercury is at its Greatest Elongation (18.9° East) on the 14th. Mercury is at Dichotomy (Half phase) on the 16th. Mercury is at Perihelion on the 21st....

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Orbital elements: P/2013 T2 (Schwartz) T 2013 June 20.65835 TT MPC q 1.6000917 (2000.0) P Q n 0.15762970 Peri. 342.51986 +0.96649311 +0.25658269 a 3.3939910 Node 2.64749 -0.21178555 +0.81359910 e 0.5285516 Incl. 9.35618 -0.14504465 +0.52174881 P 6.25 From 49 observations 2013 Sept....

Orbital elements: C/2011 G1 (McNaught) T 2011 Sept. 24.38580 TT MPC q 1.8140132 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 13.23350 -0.82557120 +0.55204873 Node 158.43846 +0.48442696 +0.58705256 e 1.0 Incl. 161.44606 +0.28941790 +0.59212456 From 39 observations 2011 Apr. 5-6. MPEC 2011 - G49 Comet C/2011 G1 (...

The 10 - 23 metre wide asteroid 2015 BD511 will make a close pass (4.5 lunar distances, 0.0115 AU) travelling at 19.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th January 2015 @ 00:48 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...

The 28 - 62 metre wide asteroid 2015 BE will make a close pass (30.9 lunar distances, 0.0795 AU) travelling at 12.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th January 2015 @ 08:25 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...

The moon through a break in the clouds

New sunspot 12277 has emerged over the eastern limb. Nine panel photomosaic captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam. EQ1 mount and baader solar filter and IR-cut filter. Sun low elevation and Hazy cloud.

In his maiden speech to the House of Commons, the Hon. Member for Copeland, Jamie Reed MP, announced that he is a Jedi: “I crave the indulgence of the House in interrupting such an important and enjoyable debate to deliver my maiden speech. Furthermore, as the first Jedi Member of this...

NGC 7714 (also Arp 284, IRAS 23336+0152, MCG 0-60-17, UGC 12699 and PGC 71868) is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy located 129 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. NGC 7714 is a starburst galaxy. With NGC 7715 it is listed as Arp 284. The galaxies are close to 16 Pisces (HD 22195...