* Astronomy

Kuiper Belt Object 2014 PN70 is at Opposition (42.980 AU) in the constellation Sagittarius on the 6th July 2017. Magnitude: 26.7

Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak makes its closest approach to the Earth (1.981 AU) on the 9th November, 2011.

Image of the eastern limb captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

There's been continual speculation about the connection between the Earth's climate and the local Galactic environment, along with the implications for life. Two researchers have explored any such link in more quantitative detail than in the past. Ice Age Epochs and the Sun's Path throu...

Title: ALMA Observations of the Gravitational Lens SDP.9 Author: Kenneth C. Wong (1,2), Tsuyoshi Ishida (3), Yoichi Tamura (3,4), Sherry H. Suyu (5,6,2), Masamune Oguri (7,8,9), Satoki Matsu****a (2) ((1) NAOJ, (2) ASIAA, (3) IoA, U. Tokyo, (4) Nagoya U., (5) MPA, (6) TUM, (7) U. Tokyo, (8) IPMU, (...

Title: The Rings of Jupiter Author: Imke de Pater, D.P. Hamilton, M.R. Showalter, H.B. Throop, J.A. Burns A review of the jovian ring system Read more (2694kb, PDF)

Title: A hot Saturn on an eccentric orbit around the giant star EPIC228754001 Author: M. I. Jones, R. Brahm, N. Espinoza, A. Jordan, F. Rojas, M. Rabus, H. Drass, A. Zapata, M. G. Soto, J. S. Jenkins, M. Vuckovic, S. Ciceri, P. Sarkis Although the majority of radial velocity detected planets have been...

Astronomers last year spotted three stars escaping the Milky Way galaxy. On Thursday, researchers announced the discovery of yet two more outbound stars. ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that balances dynamically on a single urethane-coated metal sphere. It weighs 95 pounds a...

The Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), started in 2003, is on course to complete the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) by March or April this year. When completed the facility will become the first in the world to have bui...

Fireball on 4 July 2017 (0:09 UT) This amazing fireball overflew the Mediterranean Sea on 4 July 2017 at 0:09 UT (2:09 local time). The event was produced by a sporadic meteoroid. The bolide began at an altitude of about 90 km above the sea lev...

In the Jurassic era when dinosaurs ruled the earth, a 13-foot monster crocodile nicknamed "Godzilla" might be the king of sea.. Totally unique among marine crocodiles, "it is one of the most evolved members of the crocodilian family and also one of the most bizarre" - Diego Pol,...

6 Hebe is a large Main belt asteroid. Hebe is the thirteenth largest asteroid by mass, containing around 0.5 percent of the mass of the entire asteroid belt. Its apparently high bulk density (greater than that of the Earth's Moon or even Mars), however, means that by volume it does not rank among the to...

The 84 - 190 metre wide asteroid 2017 MB5 in the constellation Pisces will make a close pass (18.89 LD, 0.04854 AU) travelling at 9.54 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th July 2017 @ 17:55 UT ±00:01. Magnitude: 18.3V See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon,...

Little Cub gives astronomers rare chance to see galaxy demise A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about the early Universe has been spotted by astronomers as it begins to be consumed by a gigantic neighbouring galaxy. The Little Cub galaxy - so called because it sits in the Ursa Major or Great...