Title: SN Hunt 248: a super-Eddington outburst from a massive cool hypergiant Author: Jon C. Mauerhan, Schuyler D. Van Dyk, Melissa L Graham, WeiKang Zheng, Kelsey I. Clubb, Alexei V. Filippenko, Stefano Valenti, Peter J. Brown, Nathan Smith, D. Andrew Howell, Iair Arcavi We present photometric...
The Gran Sasso National Laboratory, a particle physics research centre 15 km from L'Aquila in central Italy, has survived intact the earthquake that destroyed the historic town on 6 April, and killed at least 180 people. "Gran Sasso labs and experiments have not suffered consequences of the...
Title: spotrod: a semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars Author: Bence Béky, David M. Kipping, Matthew J. Holman The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Kepler space mission observed a large number of planetary transits showing anomalies due to starspot eclipses, with more such obse...
Title: Massive Compact Stars as Quark Stars Author: Hilario Rodrigues, Sergio B. Duarte, Jos Carlos T. de Oliveira High massive compact stars have been reported recently in the literature, providing strong constraints on the properties of the ultradense matter beyond the saturation nuclear de...
Title: Comprehensive Photometric Histories of All Known Galactic Recurrent Novae Authors: Bradley E. Schaefer (Louisiana State University) I collect virtually all photometry of the ten known galactic recurrent novae (RNe) and their 37 known eruptions. This consists of my modern measures of n...
Marine Day, known as 'Ocean Day' or 'Sea Day' is a Japanese national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in July. Many people take advantage of the holiday and summer weather to take a beach trip. Read more Aquanuts - Deep Sea
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was destroyed on July 21, 356 BC in an act of arson committed by Herostratus. According to the story, his motivation was fame at any cost, thus the term herostratic fame. The Ephesians, outraged, consigned Herostratus to torture and his name to oblivion. Theopompus l...
The 365 AD Crete earthquake was an undersea earthquake that occurred at about sunrise on 21 July 365 AD in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an assumed epicentre near Crete. The Crete earthquake was followed by a tsunami which devastated the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean, particularly Alexa...
NGC 6772 (also IRAS 19119-0247 and PK 33-6.1) is a magnitude +12.7 planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquila. The planetary nebula was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Datchet, England on the 2...
NGC 6920 (also ESO 26-4 and PGC 65273) is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located 119 million light-years away in the constellation Octans. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at the Cape of Good Hope on the 21s...
NGC 6926 (also IRAS 20305-0211, MCG 0-52-33, UGC 11588 and PGC 64939) is a magnitude +12.4 barred spiral galaxy located 270 million light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum ref...
NGC 6929 (also MCG 0-52-35 and PGC 64949) is a magnitude +13.4 spiral galaxy located 284 million light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Slough, England, on the 21...
NGC 7001 (also IRAS 20585-0023, MCG 0-53-16, UGC 11663 and PGC 65905) is a magnitude +12.9 spiral galaxy located 326 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telesco...
Orbital elements: P/2010 H5 (Scotti) T 2010 Apr. 11.2949 TT MPC q 6.027690 (2000.0) P Q n 0.0516463 Peri. 174.6733 -0.9410591 +0.3223293 a 7.141285 Node 24.8962 -0.3186306 -0.7430760 e 0.155938 Incl. 14.0958 -0.1135004 -0.5864655 P 19.1 From 56 observations 2010 Mar. 18-May 8. [url=http://www...
