The 46 - 100 metre wide asteroid 2014 QJ33 will make a close pass (15.6 lunar distances, 0.0401 AU), travelling at 7.97 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th September 2014 @ 04:09 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Title: Observations of a stratospheric aerosol veil from a tropical volcanic eruption in December 1808: is this the "Unknown" ~1809 eruption? Author: A. Guevara-Murua, C. A. Williams, E. J. Hendy, A. C. Rust, and K. V. Cashman The "Unknown" eruption of 1808/1809 was the sec...
Smallest Known Galaxy with a Supermassive Black Hole A University of Utah astronomer and his colleagues discovered that an ultracompact dwarf galaxy harbours a supermassive black hole - the smallest galaxy known to contain such a massive light-sucking object. The finding suggests huge black ho...
Title: Circumbinary Planets Orbiting the Rapidly Pulsating Subdwarf B-type binary NY Vir Authors: S.-B. Qian, L.-Y. Zhu, Z.-B. Dai, E. Fernández Lajús, F.-Y. Xiang, J.-J. He We report here the tentative discovery of a Jovian planet in orbit around the rapidly pulsating subdwarf B-type (sdB-typ...
MeteoritesBilge Rats! The Rodach meteorite fell in Bayern, Germany, on the 19th September 1775. http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45057920/rodach-meteorite/Yo-ho-ho! The Tjabe meteorite fell in Jawa Tengah, Indonesia, on the 19th September 1869. http://astronomy.activeboard.com...
NGC 7011 (also Mini Hyades) is a magnitude +12.9 group of stars located in the constellation Cygnus. The asterism was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 19th September 1829. Ri...
NGC 7039 (also Collinder 431 and OCL 203) is a magnitude +7.6 open star cluster located in the constellation Cygnus. The open cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 19th S...
NGC 7071 is a magnitude +12.4 open star cluster located in the constellation Cygnus. The open cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 19th September 1829. Right Ascensi...
NGC 7332 (also MCG 4-53-8, UGC 12115 and PGC 69342) is a magnitude +12.0 edge-on peculiar lenticular galaxy located 67.1 ±11 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 speculum r...
NGC 7339 (also MCG 4-53-9, UGC 12122 and PGC 69364) is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy located 60 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 speculum reflector at Datchet,...
NGC 7543 (also IRAS 23121+2803, MCG 5-54-52, UGC 12450 and PGC 70785) is a magnitude +13.2 spiral galaxy located 318 million light years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marse...
NGC 7708 is a magnitude +7.3 asterism located in the constellation Cepheus. The group of stars was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road in Slough, Berkshire, on the 19th September 1787. Right Ascension 23h...
NGC 7776 (also IC 1514, MCG -2-60-22 and PGC 72812) a magnitude +14.5 spiral galaxy located 416 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Ormond Stone using a 26-inch (660 mm) f/14.9 Alvan Clark refractor at the Leander-McCormick ob...
