'Tree of the Year' competition finalists announced An oak said to have sheltered Robin Hood and his merry men, and a yew which spans an area the size of the Royal Albert Hall, are two of the finalists in the "Tree of the Year" competition. Read more
Title: A palace for astronomy in Buenos Aires Authors: Alejandro Gangui In no other epoch of Western history like in the Middle Ages, cosmology was so key an element of culture and, one way or another, the motion of the heavens ended up impregnating the literature of that time. Among the most notewort...
Title: Radio emission from the high-mass X-ray binary BP Cru: first detection Authors: M. Pestalozzi, U. Torkelsson, G. Hobbs, A. R. Lopez-Sanchez BP Cru is a well known high-mass X-ray binary composed of a late B hypergiant (Wray 977) and a neutron star, also observed as the X-ray pulsar GX 301-2. N...
Title: A 40 Myr Old Gaseous Circumstellar Disk at 49 Ceti: Massive CO-Rich Comet Clouds at Young A-Type Stars Authors: B. Zuckerman, Inseok Song The gaseous molecular disk that orbits the main sequence A-type star 49 Ceti has been known since 1995, but the stellar age and the origin of the observed ca...
A galaxy in the process of being dismembered has been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The unfortunate victim is having its stars and gas stripped away as it plunges at great speed towards the centre of a massive galaxy cluster. The galaxy has been nicknamed the 'Comet galaxy' because o...
NGC 7652 (also ESO 148-11 and PGC 71402) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 463 million light-years away in the constellation Tucana. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, C...
NGC 7676 (also ESO 148-16 and PGC 71564) is a magnitude +11.5 elliptical galaxy located 154 million light-years away in the constellation Tucana. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremon...
NGC 7184 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered on 28 October 1783 by the German-British astronomer William Herschel. Read more
Orbital elements:
2014 UD57 Earth MOID = 0.0012 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 55.90758 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61748136 Peri. 119.48077 +0.89657874 +0.44283783
a 1.3657991 Node 214.23530 -0.41018749 +0.82483362
e 0.3502058 Incl. 0.65380 -0.16701132 +0.35148848
P 1.60 H 25.8 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2014 UU56 Earth MOID = 0.0004 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 97.40703 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.85085585 Peri. 100.75809 +0.53501310 +0.84484125
a 1.1029743 Node 201.58709 -0.77730184 +0.49128359
e 0.2630121 Incl. 0.32099 -0.33100277 +0.21185772
P 1.16 H 28.0 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2014 UF56 Earth MOID = 0.0002 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 2.45561 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31695689 Peri. 227.28989 +0.13690953 -0.99053948
a 2.1304397 Node 214.84431 +0.91355606 +0.12990491
e 0.5911530 Incl. 0.93711 +0.38297664 +0.04422955
P 3.11 H 27.3 G 0....
Orbital elements: 2009 TD8 Earth MOID = 0.0213 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 328.08030 (2000.0) P Q n 1.18411055 Peri. 146.67500 -0.97482698 -0.22075006 a 0.8848600 Node 20.64039 +0.18017215 -0.86270588 e 0.2433667 Incl. 5.09968 +0.13134064 -0.45498130 P 0.83 H 26.9 G 0.15 U 8 [ur...
The 28 - 63 metre wide asteroid 2014 UR34 made a close pass (8.2 lunar distances, 0.0210 AU) travelling at 12.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd October 2014 @ 02:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
