MEASAT Global Buys New Satellite MEASAT Global Bhd has entered into a contract with Astrium SAS for the procurement of the MEASAT-3b satellite that will cater to existing customers and for expansion into new markets. MEASAT-3b will have a contractual life of 15 years and the whole programme is expe...
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a provider of commercial satellites, today announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a spacecraft for Australian telecommunications service provider, SingTel Optus. The satellite, Optus 10, will be used to augment the existing fleet of SingTel...
NGC 296 (also IRAS 00523+3116, MCG 5-3-24, UGC 562 and PGC 3260) is a magnitude +12.6 spiral galaxy located 251 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Dat...
NGC 507 (also Arp 229, MCG 5-4-44, UGC 938 and PGC 5098) is a magnitude +11.2 lenticular galaxy located 227 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was catalogued as Arp 229 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies due to the faint "circular or near circular rings" discovered by Hal...
NGC 508 (also Arp 229, MCG 5-4-45, UGC 939 and PGC 5099) is a magnitude +13.1 elliptical galaxy located 254 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. 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 736 (also MCG 5-5-28, UGC 1414 and PGC 7289) is a magnitude +12.1 elliptical galaxy located 200 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, B...
Title: Detection of a luminous hot X-ray corona around the massive spiral galaxy NGC266 Authors: Akos Bogdan, William R. Forman, Ralph P. Kraft, Christine Jones The presence of luminous hot X-ray coronae in the dark matter halos of massive spiral galaxies is a basic prediction of galaxy formation...
NGC 746 (also IRAS 01548+4441, MCG 7-5-3, UGC 1438 and PGC 7399) is a magnitude +12.9 irregular galaxy located 32 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the W...
NGC 750 (also Arp 166, MCG 5-5-34, UGC 1430 and PGC 7369) is a magnitude +12.9 interacting elliptical galaxy located 238 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy is interacting with NGC 751. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel us...
NGC 777 (also MCG 5-5-38, UGC 1476 and PGC 7584) is a magnitude +12.9 elliptical galaxy located 231 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Datchet, B...
NGC 7394 is a magnitude +11.0 open cluster or asterism located in the constellation Lacerta. The group of stars were 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 12th September 1829. Rig...
The 130 - 290 metre wide asteroid 2014 QY363 will make a close pass (68.8 lunar distances, 0.1769 AU), travelling at 11.62 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th September 2014 @ 19:54 UT ±00:29. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
Orbital elements: 2010 CD55 Earth MOID = 0.0123 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 240.38389 (2000.0) P Q n 0.95252298 Peri. 279.74146 -0.39053720 +0.91886517 a 1.0230238 Node 327.09119 -0.79880062 -0.36862713 e 0.2003081 Incl. 5.94590 -0.45760055 -0.14071541 P 1.03 H 22.9 G 0.15 U 8 [...
