NGC 6936 (also ESO 528-22, MCG -4-48-21 and PGC 65033) is a magnitude +12.7 elliptical galaxy located 268 million light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark & Sons r...
NGC 7305 (also MCG 2-57-3 and PGC 69091) is a magnitude +14.1 elliptical galaxy located 358 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, Eas...
NGC 7355 (also ESO 406-6 and PGC 69587) is a magnitude +14.3 spiral galaxy located 540 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape T...
NGC 7382 (also ESO 406-15, IRAS 22476-3707, MCG -6-50-5 and PGC 69840) is a magnitude +13.3 spiral galaxy located 533 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope a...
NGC 7651 (also NGC 7651-1, MCG 2-59-36 and PGC 71344) is a magnitude +14.8 elliptical galaxy located 584 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy is close to the magnitude +14.7 spiral galaxy NGC 7651-2 (MCG 2-59-36 and PGC 3085862) located 584 million light-years away. T...
The 26 - 58 metre wide asteroid 2014 QD3 will make a close pass (16.7 lunar distances, 0.0428 AU), travelling at 9.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st September 2014 @ 01:19 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 70 - 160 metre wide asteroid 2014 OZ111 will make a close pass (44.7 lunar distances, 0.1148 AU), travelling at 8.05 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st September 2014 @ 03:08 UT ±00:28. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
The 33 - 75 metre wide asteroid 2014 QM266 will make a close pass (11.1 lunar distances, 0.0285 AU), travelling at 27.28 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st September 2014 @ 09:42 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Title: The Superhorizon Test of Future B-mode Experiments Author: Hayden Lee, S.-C. Su, Daniel Baumann Inflation predicts B-mode polarisation with correlations that span superhorizon scales at recombination. In contrast, the correlations set up by causal sources, such as phase transitions...
Title: New possible class of neutron stars: hot and fast non-accreting rotators Author: Mikhail E. Gusakov, Andrey I. Chugunov, Elena M. Kantor (Ioffe Institute) A new class of neutron stars (NSs) -- hot rapidly rotating non-accreting NSs, which we propose to call HOFNARs (HOt and Fast Non-Accre...
Title: LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing Authors: E. Bozzo, J. W. den Herder, M. Feroci, L. Stella, on the behalf of the LOFT consortium The Large Observatory For X-ray Timing, LOFT, was selected by the European Space Agency as one of the four Cosmic Vision M3 candidate missions to compete...
NGC 7100 (also MCG+01-55-007 and PGC 51168) is a magnitude +14.5 galaxy, (or possibly a magnitude +6.9 star), located in the constellation Pegasus. The object was discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan using a 30.48 cm (12 inch) refractor at the Paris Observatory on the 31st August 1...
NGC 7096 (also IC 5121, ESO 107-46, IC 5121, IRAS 21373-6408 and PGC 67168) is a magnitude +11.9 spiral galaxy located 143 million light-years away in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telesc...
NGC 7066 (also MCG 2-54-25, UGC 11741 and PGC 66747) is a magnitude +14.2 spiral galaxy located 235 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 Observato...
Hubble Sees Messier 70: Tight and Bright In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the compact center of Messier 70, a globular cluster. Quarters are always tight in globular clusters, where the mutual hold of gravity binds together hundreds of thousands of...
