IC 342 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy is located near the galactic equator where dust obscuration makes it a difficult object for both amateur and professional astronomers to observe. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC_342]Read more[/...
Title: MOST observations of the Herbig Ae delta-Scuti star HD 34282 Authors: M. P. Casey, K. Zwintz, D. B. Guenther, W. W. Weiss, P. J. Amado, D. Díaz-Fraile, E. Rodriguez, R. Kuschnig, J. M. Matthews, A. F. J. Moffat, J. F. Rowe, S. M. Rucinski, D. Sasselov MOST observations and model analysis of the H...
Title: KELT-20b: A giant planet with a period of P~ 3.5 days transiting the V~ 7.6 early A star HD 185603 Author: Michael B. Lund, Joseph E. Rodriguez, George Zhou, B. Scott Gaudi, Keivan G. Stassun, Marshall C. Johnson, Allyson Bieryla, Ryan J. Oelkers, Daniel J. Stevens, Karen A. Collins, Kaloyan P...
Main structure of world's longest cross-sea bridge finished The main structure of world's longest sea bridge linking Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao was completed Friday, the builders said. It took seven years to build the bridge, which will be open at the end of the year, said Zhu Yongling, director of...
Title: Discovery of a warm, dusty giant planet around HIP65426 Author: G. Chauvin, S. Desidera, A.-M. Lagrange, A. Vigan, R. Gratton, M. Langlois, M. Bonnefoy, J.-L. Beuzit, M. Feldt, D. Mouillet, M. Meyer, A. Cheetham, B. Biller, A. Boccaletti, V. D'Orazi, R. Galicher, J. Hagelberg, A.-L. Maire...
Plans by a Geneva museum to sell two ancient manuscripts for millions of dollars have drawn consternation from scholars around the world.
They fear the sale of the papyri, which date back to the 2nd century, could precipitate the break-up of a unique collection of around 50 texts held by the Bodmer...
A strong magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred at 21:57:45 (UTC) on Wednesday, December 17, 2008, in the southern Italy region, 65 km West of Cosenza, at a depth of 260.7 km. Location 39.291°N, 15.485°E
BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' by the Agency’s Science Programme Committee (SPC) last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in August 2013. BepiColombo is the next Eu...
China develops sea launches to boost space commerce China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official. Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science a...
Hubble Pushed Beyond Limits to Spot Clumps of New Stars in Distant Galaxy When the universe was young, stars formed at a much higher rate than they do today. By peering across billions of light-years of space, Hubble can study this early era. But at such distances, galaxies shrink to smudges that hide...
The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Xicc++ a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark. The existenc...
Title: The fast spin of near-Earth asteroid (455213) 2001 OE84, revisited after 14 years: constraints on internal structure Author: David Polishook, Nicholas Moskovitz, Audrey Thirouin, Amanda Bosh, Stephen Levine, Carlos Zuluaga, Stephen Tegler, Oded Aharonson At a mean diameter of ~650 m,...
Title: Mid-infrared imaging of NGC1068 with VISIR at the VLT
Authors: E. Galliano, E. Pantin, D. Alloin, P.O. Lagage
High resolution mid-infrared (MIR) images of the central region of NGC1068 (M77) have been obtained with VISIR, the multi-mode MIR instrum...
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred at 05:31:21 (UTC) on Friday, November 25, 2005, in Mindanao, Philippines, 140 km East of General Santos. The hypocentral depth was estimated to be 58 km.
Location 5.872°N, 126.407°E
Asteroid (270) Anahita is a stony S-type Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on October 8, 1887 in Clinton, New York. It was named after the Avestan divinity Aredvi Sura Anahita. Source Google earth file: Astero...
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