The Queen Charlotte Islands earthquake of 1949 was a magnitude 8.1 interplate earthquake that struck the sparsely populated Queen Charlotte Islands and the Pacific Northwest coast on August 22, 1949. Read more...
Drill reaches Antarctica's under-ice Lake Whillans An American attempt to bore down into Lake Whillans, a body of water buried almost 1km under the Antarctic ice, has achieved its aim. Scientists reported on Sunday that sensors on their drill system had noted a change in pressure, indicating cont...
NGC 7006 (also Caldwell 42 and GCL 119) is a magnitude +10.6 globular star cluster located 135,000 light-years away in the constellation Delphinus. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Datche...
NGC 6756 (also Collinder 398 and OCL 99) is a magnitude +10.6 open star cluster located 4,900 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Slough, England...
NGC 6640 (also IRAS 18263+3416, MCG 6-40-18, UGC 11247 and PGC 61913) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 313 million light-years away in the constellation Lyra. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observat...
Helmut Graf von Zborowski (born August 21 1905 in Terezin, Bohemia - 16 November 1969 in Brunoy, Paris) was an Austrian aircraft designer of VTOL aircraft. His father, Oberst NN Zborowski, a colonel in the Austria-Hungarian army, was commander of the first Austrian airship. His mother was Mariann...
The 61 - 140 metre wide asteroid 2014 OV3 will make a close pass (23.4 lunar distances, 0.0602 AU), travelling at 4.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st August 2014 @ 10:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 180 - 410 metre wide asteroid 2014 KE46 will make a close pass (73.0 lunar distances, 0.1875 AU), travelling at 11.07 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st August 2014 @ 15:02 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Ultraviolet (390nm) image captured with a 100mm refractor + DIY focal reducer with 5mm field stop. Cloudy (had to use a DIY solar filter form a silvered typhoo tea bag wrapper)
Title: A chemical confirmation of the faint Bootes II dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Author: Andreas Koch, R. Michael Rich We present a chemical abundance study of the brightest confirmed member star of the ultrafaint dwarf galaxy Bootes II from Keck/HIRES high-resolution spectroscopy at moderate si...
CAL 87 is one of the best studied SSSs located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is a binary system with an orbital period of 10.6 hr (Cowley et al. 1990). Cowley et al. (1990) reported the radial velocity variations of the He II lines and discussed the possibility that the system contains a black h...
Title: High-resolution optical spectroscopy of DY Cen: diffuse interstellar bands in a proto-fullerene circumstellar environment? Authors: D. A. Garcia-Hernandez, N. Kameswara Rao, David L. Lambert We search high-resolution and high-quality VLT/UVES optical spectra of the hot R Coronae B...
