* Astronomy

Title: The PAMELA Positron Excess from Annihilations into a Light Boson Authors: Ilias Cholis, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Lisa Goodenough, Neal Weiner Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high (~ 10 - 100 GeV) energies, c...

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Kuiper belt object/Scattered-Disk Object 2005 QU182 was discovered at on the 30th August 2005 by NEAT's Mt. Palomar telescope. Orbital data objectclasssemimajor axisorbital periodorbital eccentricityorbit inclin.(km)(AU)(days)(years)(°)2005 QU182KBO13,867,900,00092.701326,00...

The 87 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2014 SM142 will make a close pass (47.2 lunar distances, 0.1212 AU) travelling at 17.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October 2014 @ 19:15 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Orbital elements: 2014 MK55 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0306 AU Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 277.09420 (2000.0) P Q n 0.61222207 Peri. 207.94412 +0.98093253 -0.19377337 a 1.3736098 Node 163.20901 +0.18656039 +0.91729071 e 0.3740235 Incl. 2.96478 +0.05446641 +0.34789313 P 1.61 H 2...

NGC 109 (also MCG 4-2-20, UGC 251 and PGC 1633) is a magnitude +14.1 barred spiral galaxy located 250 ±18 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copen...

NGC 277 (also MCG -2-3-28 and PGC 2995) is a magnitude +13.7 elliptical galaxy located 174 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhagen Observator...

NGC 1054 (also IRAS 02394+1800, MCG 3-7-46 and PGC 10242) is a magnitude +13.9 spiral galaxy located 448 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhag...

NGC 1355 (also MCG -1-10-2 and PGC 13169) is a magnitude +13.3 spiral galaxy located 180 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhagen Observato...

NGC 1551 (also NGC 1550, MCG 0-11-55, UGC 3012 and PGC 14880) is a magnitude +12.1 elliptical galaxy located 171 million light-years away in the constellation Taurus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Cl...

NGC 7156 (also IRAS 21520+0242, MCG 0-55-29, UGC 11843 and PGC 67622) is a magnitude +12.5 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 183 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 spe...

Title: Trigonometric Distance and Proper Motion of IRAS 20056+3350: Massive Star Forming Region on the Solar Circle Author: Ross A. Burns, Takumi Nagayama, Toshihiro Handa, Toshihiro Omodaka, Akiharu Nakagawa, Hiroyuki Nakanishi, Masahiko Hayashi, Makoto Shizugami We report our measureme...

Title: Suzaku Observations of the Non-thermal Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 Authors: Aya Bamba (1), Gerd Puehlhofer (2), Fabio Acero (3), Dmitry Klochkov (2), Wenwu Tian (4,5), Ryo Yamazaki (1), Zhiyuan Li (6), Dieter Horns (7), Karl Kosack (8), Nukri Komin (9) ((1) Aoyama Gakuin U., (2) U. Tu...

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Comet 201P/LONEOS is at Opposition (3.452 AU) on the 24th June, 2013. EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 06 24 18 13 15.5 -31 05 42 3.4522 4.4615 172.3 1.7 23.2 2013 06 25 18 12 23.2 -31 06 26 3.4483 4.4576 172.3 1.8 23.2 2013 06 26 18 11 30.7 -31 07 07 3.4448 4.4537 172.1 1.8...