NGC 7678 (also Arp 28, IRAS 23259+2208, MCG 4-55-17, UGC 12614 and PGC 71534) is a magnitude +11.8 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 160 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...
Orbital elements:
2014 RT17 Earth MOID = 0.0024 AU
Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC
M 96.06912 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.65682564 Peri. 250.42552 -0.53600027 +0.84415192
a 1.3106980 Node 347.14670 -0.75569880 -0.48533094
e 0.6044966 Incl. 2.71770 -0.37632836 -0.22773102
P 1.50 H 24.7 G 0...
The 27 - 59 metre wide asteroid 2014 QZ295 will make a close pass (10.3 lunar distances, 0.0264 AU), travelling at 8.80 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th September 2014 @ 19:46 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
NGC 6991 is an open star cluster located about 5700 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. However, it is actually two separate clusters discovered by John Herschel and William Herschel and mistakenly listed together as NGC 6991. The first cluster (IC 5076, centred around the star HD 199478...
NGC 26 (also IRAS 00078+2533, MCG 4-1-34, UGC 94 and PGC 732) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 211 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. 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 t...
NGC 5807 (also Markarian 832, MCG 11-18-16 and PGC 53373) is a magnitude +14.2 compact galaxy located 390 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. 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 C...
Title: How does star formation proceed in the circumnuclear starburst ring of NGC 6951? Authors: T.P.R. van der Laan, E. Schinnerer, E. Emsellem, L.K. Hunt, R.M. McDermid, G. Liu Gas inflowing along stellar bars is often stalled at the location of circumnuclear rings, that form an effective reser...
Title: The Active Nucleus of IC4970: A Nearby Example of Merger-Induced Cold-Gas Accretion Authors: M.E. Machacek, R.P. Kraft, M.L.N. Ashby, D.A. Evans, C. Jones, W.R. Forman (CfA) (Version v2) We present results from Chandra X-ray and Spitzer mid-infrared observations of the interacting gal...
Chandra Sees Remarkable Eclipse of Black Hole Chandra observations of the galaxy NGC 1365 have captured a remarkable eclipse of the supermassive black hole at its centre. A dense cloud of gas passed in front of the black hole, which blocked h...
Title: GRO J1008-57: an (almost) predictable transient X-ray binary Authors: M. Kühnel, S. Müller, I. Kreykenbohm, F. Fürst, K. Pottschmidt, R. E. Rothschild, I. Caballero, V. Grinberg, G. Schönherr, C. Shrader, D. Klochkov, R. Staubert, C. Ferrigno, J.-M. Torrejón, S. Martínez-Núñez, J. Wil...
Meteorite fallsThe Lucé (L6) meteorite fell in Pays de la Loire, France, on the 13th September 1768. http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44950815/luc-meteorite/
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer has lifted the veil off a ghost known to haunt the local universe, providing new insight into the formation and evolution of galaxies. The eerie creature, called NGC 404, is a type of galaxy known as "lenticular." Lenticular galaxies are disk-shaped, w...
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