The 9 - 21 metre wide asteroid 2014 SE145 made a close pass (3.8 lunar distances, 0.0099 AU), travelling at 8.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 22nd September 2014 @ 14:12 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
The 13 - 29 metre wide asteroid 2014 SR223 made a close pass (5.3 lunar distances, 0.0137 AU), travelling at 14.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st September 2014 @ 22:44 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 11 - 24 metre wide asteroid 2014 SD145 made a close pass (3.7 lunar distances, 0.0096 AU), travelling at 4.93 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st September 2014 @ 14:23 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
The 16 - 36 metre wide asteroid 2014 SS223 made a close pass (3.3 lunar distances, 0.0086 AU), travelling at 14.50 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st September 2014 @ 14:02 UT ±00:02. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 17 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2014 SC145 made a close pass (7.6 lunar distances, 0.0195 AU), travelling at 11.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th September 2014 @ 14:02 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
New molecule found in space connotes life origins Hunting from a distance of 27,000 light years, astronomers have discovered an unusual carbon-based molecule one with a branched structure contained within a giant gas cloud in interstellar space. Like finding a molecular needle in a cosmic hayst...
Biosphere 2 is a 3.14-acre (12,700 m²) structure originally built to be an artificial, materially-closed ecological system in Oracle, Arizona (USA) by Space Biosphere Ventures, a joint venture whose principal officers were John P. Allen, inventor and Executive Director, and Margret Augustin...
Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L, sometimes known as Soyuz T-10a or T-10-1, was an unsuccessful Soyuz mission intended to visit the Salyut 7 space station, which was occupied by the Soyuz T-9 crew. However, it never finished its launch countdown; the launch vehicle was destroyed on the launch pad by fire on Septe...
3D virtual reality tours of RRS Discovery developed A 3D virtual reality tour of the historic RRS Discovery ship in Dundee is being developed. A recent laser survey of the ship, which was sailed to Antarctica by Captain Scott, has made virtual tours using the Oculus Rift headset possible. Read more
Beginning with a full view of beautiful spiral galaxy M81, follow the insets (left, bottom, then right) to zoom in on a real survivor.
Seen at the centre of the final field on the right is a star identified as the survivor of a cosmic cataclysm - the supernova explosion of its companio...
Title: C stars in the outer spheroid of NGC 6822
Authors: S. Demers, P. Battinelli, E. Artigau
From a 2 x 2 degree survey of NGC 6822 researchers have previously established that this Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy possesses a huge spheroid having more than one degree in le...
NGC 786 (also IRAS 01587+1524, MCG 2-6-12, UGC 1506 and PGC 7680) is a magnitude +13.4 face-on spiral galaxy located 208 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 Merz-Refr...
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