NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens. The stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. These are the cores of massive stars that blew up in supernova explosions,...
NGC 7003 (also IRAS 20584+1736, MCG 3-53-8, UGC 11662 and PGC 65887) is a magnitude +13.0 spiral galaxy located 244 million light-years away in the constellation Delphinus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Co...
NGC 7547 (also Arp 99, MCG 3-59-13, UGC 12453 and PGC 70819) is a magnitude +13.7 barred spiral galaxy located 219 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at...
Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a sal****er bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast. Part of a sunken shipment of up to 60 ceramic vessels, the 67-centimeter storage jar, or amphora, was the top find from what organisers say...
Two panel photomosaic of sunspots 12148 ans 12146 (right) captured with a 100mm Helio f5 refractor and vesta pro webcam + 1.5x barlow lens solar filter and IR-cut filter.
NGC 7073 (also IRAS 21267-1142, MCG -2-54-10 and PGC 69947) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 255 million light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector in Malta on the 25th August 1864....
NGC 7406 (also MCG -1-58-3 and PGC 69947) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 74 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector in Malta on the 25th August 1864. Right Ascension 22h 53m...
NGC 7416 (also MCG -1-58-4 and PGC 70025) is a magnitude +12.4 barred spiral galaxy located 131 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) reflector in Malta on the 25th August 1864. Right Ascensio...
The 180 - 400 metre asteroid 2008 SW11 (H=21.1) was discovered by the spacewatch - Steward Observatory, Kitt Peak-Spacewatch on the 25th September, 2008. The preliminary orbital elements indicate that will make a flyby of the Earth Moon system at 07:11 UT, 1st April, 2009, with a minimum distance o...
The 190 - 430 metre wide asteroid 2008 RG1 will make a close pass (55.7 lunar distances, 0.1430 AU), travelling at 11.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th August, 2011 @ 20:21 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Comet P/2008 Q2 (Ory) was discovered by Michel Ory (Switzerland) on CCD images obtained with the Bernard Comte 0.61m f/3.9 telescope in Vicques. The preliminary orbital elements of the comet indicate a perihelion passage on the 23rd October, 2008, at a distance of 1.3 AU from the Sun, and a 5.96...
NGC 326 (also MCG 4-3-25, UGC 601 and PGC 3482) is a magnitude +13.2 elliptical galaxy located 671 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 Copenha...
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