* Astronomy

Photomosaic captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam. Moon 17.07.14: The moon in the morning sky. (cropped image)

Venus in the dawn sky. (didn't see mercury) Venus in the dawn sky over #Aberdeen

Diamond crushed to Saturn's extremes Diamond, nature's hardest material, has been crushed to record extremes of pressure using the "world's biggest laser", US scientists report. The carbon crystal was condensed to the core pressure of Saturn - 14 times that at the centre of the Earth....

Solar Storm Forecast 07-16-2014

Solar Storm Forecast 07-16-2014

The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago can be traced to a collision between two monster rocks in the asteroid belt nearly 100 million years earlier, scientists report on Wednesday. The smash drove a giant sliver of rock into Earth's path, eventually causing the climate-changing impa...

Title: The open cluster NGC6823 and possible triggered star formation associated with SNR G59.5+0.1 Authors: Jin-Long Xu, Jun-Jie Wang We investigate the environment in the vicinity of the supernova remnant (SNR) G59.5+0.1 and identify all young stellar objects (YSOs) around the SNR, to deriv...

NGC 6834 (also Collinder 407, C 1950+292 and OCL 134) is a magnitude +7.8 open star cluster located 7,002 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Datc...

NGC 6847 (also SH2-97) is a magnitude +13.0 star cloud located in the constellation Cygnus. The star cloud 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 17th July 1784. Right Ascension 19h 56...

NGC 6894 (also PK 069-02 1) is a magnitude +12.3 planetary nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. 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 17th July 1784. Righ...

Title: A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940 Authors: Ben Hood, Andrew Collier Cameron, Stephen R. Kane, D. M. Bramich, Keith Horne, Rachel A. Street, I. A. Bond, A. J. Penny, Y. Tsapras, A. Quirrenbach, N. Safizadeh, D. Mitchell, J. Cooke A survey of planetary transits in the di...

NGC 7013 (also IRAS 21014+2941, MCG 5-49-1, UGC 11670 and PGC 66003) is a magnitude +11.3 spiral galaxy located 36 million light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting t...

The 37 - 82 metre wide asteroid 2014 MV41 made a close pass (10.6 lunar distances, 0.0272 AU), travelling at 14.00 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th July 2014 @ 03:37 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)....

Comet P/1999 D1 (Hermann) is at Perihelion (1.644 AU) on the 18th December, 2012.

July 17, 1940 Low Flying Meteor Passes Over Chaplin Chaplin, Sask, July 18 Believed to have dropped somewhere in western Saskatchewan, a low flying meteor which made a roar like a plane, passed over Chaplin at 7.30 o'clock Wednesday evening. Read more (PDF)

Title: The Flaring Corona of UX Arietis Authors: Eduardo Ros, Maria Massi (MPIfR) Here we present observational results on the RS CVn star UX Arietis from four very-long-baseline interferometry observations distributed in time to cover the rotational period of 6.44 days. The data are better fit...