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The Los Angeles Meteorite Location: Los Angeles County, California (original find location unknown) Found: October 30, 1999 (Recognised) Type: Shergottite (SNC) Martian basalt Two stones, weighing 452.6 g and 245.4 g respectively, were found by Bob Verish in his back yard while he was cleaning...

IC 668 (also MCG 3-28-59 and PGC 33613) is a magnitude +14.6 spiral galaxy located 456 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Stephane Javelle using a 77 cm (30 inch) Henry and Gautier refractor at the Nice Observatory on the 15th January 18...

Delta Leonis (Zosma) and location of galaxy NGC 3588. Canon EOS350D and 100mm refractor.Prime focus. 20seconds, ISO 1600

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Experts have verified that a bowling ball-size hunk of metal unearthed near Grayton Beach is the third largest meteorite ever found in the southeastern United States. The 24-pound meteorite is thought to have crashed to Earth at least 400 years ago. Two amateur treasure-hunters found it amid a sma...

NGC 41 (also IRAS 00101+2144, MCG 4-1-39 and PGC 865) is a magnitude +13.7 spiral galaxy located 273 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with NGC 42. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inc...

NGC 42 (also MCG 4-1-41, UGC 118 or PGC 867) is a magnitude +13.8 elliptical galaxy located 275 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observatory in S...

NGC 6190 (also IRAS 16312+5832, MCG 10-23-82, UGC 10443 and PGC 58458) is a magnitude +12.6 spiral galaxy located 154 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI JPEG (391 kb) Tiff (9.3 MB) PS (7.8 MB) This composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope is a new look for NGC 6543, better known as the Cat's Eye nebula. This famous object is a so-called planetary nebula that...

ATel 6635: Discovery of the z = 0.869 Superluminous Supernova DES14X2byo

ATel 6637: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Probable Supernova in PGC 128348

Absolute zero is the temperature at which entropy reaches its minimum value. As implied by the laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero cannot be reached by artificial or natural means because this would require a system to be fully removed from the rest of the universe. A system at theoretical abso...

Harriet the tortoise, the world's oldest animal in captivity has died on the Sunshine Coast at the ripe old age of 176. The giant Galapagos tortoise died of a suspected heart attack. She was a star attraction at Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo since the 1980s and even features in the Guinness Book of Recor...

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Centaur (54598) Bienor (2000 QC243) is at Opposition (15.116 AU) on the 29th October 2014 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2014 10 28 01 41 37.0 +30 41 48 15.1170 16.0611 161.2 1.1 19.6 2014 10 29 01 41 23.9 +30 40 50 15.1164 16.0602 161.2 1.1 19.6 2014 10 30 01 41 10.8 +30 39 50 1...