The 670 - 1500 metre wide asteroid 2013 WT67 will make a close pass (16.1 lunar distances, 0.0412 AU), travelling at 11.68 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th August 2014 @ 20:19 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
The 1400 - 3100 metre wide asteroid 2001 RZ11 will make a close pass (34.2 lunar distances, 0.0879 AU), travelling at 29.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th August 2014 @ 03:16 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
NGC 6419 (also MCG 11-21-12, UGC 10924 and PGC 60543) is a magnitude +14.8 edge-on spiral galaxy located 365 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. 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 Obs...
NGC 6420 (also MCG 11-21-13 and PGC 60553) is a magnitude +14.4 elliptical galaxy located 374 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. 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 6700 (also IRAS 18441+3213, MCG 5-44-10, UGC 11351 and PGC 62376) is a magnitude +13.1 barred spiral galaxy located 211 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 Ob...
NGC 7539 (also MCG 4-54-35, UGC 12443 and PGC 70783) is a magnitude +12.5 face-on spiral galaxy located 278 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 Winds...
The 250 - 560 metre wide asteroid 2014 PT59 made a close pass (64.7 lunar distances, 0.1663 AU), travelling at 6.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 12th August 2014 @ 18:40 UT ±01:36. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
Two panel photomosaic of sunspots 12141 and 12139 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + 1.5x barlows. Sun was only 12% above the horizon
Title: 2FGL J1653.6-0159: A New Low in Evaporating Pulsar Binary Periods Author: Roger W. Romani, Alexei V. Filippenko, S. Bradley Cenko We have identified an optical binary with orbital period P_b=4488s as the probable counterpart of the Fermi source 2FGL J1653.6-0159. Although pulsations ha...
Title: A Spitzer Space Telescope Study of the Debris Disks around four SDSS White Dwarfs Authors: Carolyn Brinkworth, Boris Gaensicke, Jon Girven, Don Hoard, Tom Marsh, Stephen Parsons, Detlev Koester We present Spitzer Space Telescope data of four isolated white dwarfs that were previously kn...
Astronomers using the Submillimeter Array (SMA) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, confirmed, for the first time, that many of the objects termed "
Proplyds" found in the Orion Nebula do have sufficient material to form new p...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) conducted the first five-engine firing of its Falcon 9 medium to heavy lift rocket at its Texas Test Facility outside McGregor on Thursday, May 29. At full power the engines generated almost half a million pounds of force, and consumed 1,750 lbs of fue...
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