NGC 516 (also MCG 1-4-48, UGC 946 and PGC 5148) is a magnitude +13.1 edge-on spiral galaxy located 113 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 Merz-Refractor at the Copen...
NGC 522 (also IRAS 01221+0944, MCG 2-4-38, UGC 970 and PGC 5218) is a magnitude +12.9 edge-on spiral galaxy located 125 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 Merz-Refr...
NGC 525 (also MCG 1-4-54, UGC 972 and PGC 5232) is a magnitude +13.3 spiral galaxy located 75 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 Merz-Refractor at the Copenhagen Obs...
NGC 675 (also MCG 2-5-41, UGC 1273 and PGC 6665) is a magnitude +14.4 spiral galaxy located 245 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, Eas...
NGC 677 (also IRAS 01464+1249, MCG 2-5-42, UGC 1275 and PGC 6673) is a magnitude +12.2 elliptical galaxy located 235 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Wa...
NGC 6477 (PGC 2702901) is a magnitude +15.3 spiral galaxy located 289 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 Warner Observatory, East Avenue, Rochester, Ne...
NGC 7055 is a magnitude +13.1 asterism located in the constellation Cepheus. The group of stars was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Slough on the 25th September 1829. Right Ascension 21h 19m 25.8s, Dec...
NGC 7505 (also PGC 70636) is a magnitude +14.7 spiral galaxy located 314 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Avenue, Rocheste...
The 110 - 250 metre wide asteroid 2014 MY26 will make a close pass (50.7 lunar distances, 0.1302 AU), travelling at 8.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th September 2014 @ 07:55 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Title: The effect of spiral arm passages on the evolution of stellar clusters
Authors: M. Gieles (1,2,3), E. Athanassoula (2), S.F. Portegies Zwart (3) ((1) Utrecht, (2) Marseille, (3) Amsterdam)
We study the effect of spiral arm passages on the evolution of star clusters o...
Title: The well-aligned orbit of WASP-84b: evidence for disc migration Author: D. R. Anderson, A. H. M. J. Triaud, O. D. Turner, D. J. A. Brown, B. J. M. Clark, B. Smalley, A. Collier Cameron, A. P. Doyle, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, C. Lovis, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, A. M. S. Smith We report the...
Title: Suzaku observation of IRAS 00521-7054, a peculiar type-II AGN with a very broad feature at 6 keV Author: Claudio Ricci, Fumie Tazaki, Yoshihiro Ueda, Stephane Paltani, Rozenn Boissay, Yuichi Terashima (Version v2) IRAS 00521-7054 is the first Seyfert 2 in which the presence of an extremel...
Title: The Mass of the Central Black Hole in the Nearby Seyfert Galaxy NGC5273 Author: Misty C. Bentz (Georgia State University), Daniel Horenstein, Craig Bazhaw, Emily R. Manne-Nicholas, Benjamin J. Ou-Yang, Matthew Anderson, Jeremy Jones, Ryan P. Norris, J. Robert Parks, Dicy Saylor, Kather...
NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbour of Sun NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's N...
