Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a woman on a mission to reveal the friendly face of physics Physicists love to talk about "paradigm shifts". Their discipline is littered with them: dramatic changes in thinking that fundamentally altered the way scientists look at the world. For Professor Jocel...
Von Braun 'Paperclip' team member Rudolf Schlidt dies in Huntsville Rudolf Schlidt, one of the last surviving members of Wernher von Braun's original "Paperclip" rocket team, has died in Huntsville. Schlidt, who died Friday, was 98. Schlidt was a guided missile expert who was with von...
An Orbcomm OG2 communications satellite is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on the 15th June 2014. The launch window extends from 00:00 to 00:53 UT (16th)
NGC 6351 (also MCG 6-38-17 and PGC 60063) is a magnitude +15.2 peculiar galaxy located in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy is in the process of colliding with the neighbouring galaxy SDSS J171911.7 +360340. NGC 6351 also forms an optical double galaxy with NGC 6349. The galaxy was discover...
NGC 6603 (also ESO 590-SC17, Melotte 197, Collinder 374 and OCL 36) is a magnitude +11.4 open star cluster located 9,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster consists of about 30 stars in a field of about 5 arc minutes in diameter, and situated within the brightest part of s...
A Cluster Within a Cluster The star cluster NGC 6604 is shown in this new image taken by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is often overlooked in favour of its more prominent neighbour, the Eagle Nebula (also known as Messier 16),...
NGC 6749 (also Berkeley 42, GCL 107 and OCL 91) is a magnitude +12.4 globular star cluster located 25,800 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, Sl...
Orbital elements: 2010 AK PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0255 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 76.63589 (2000.0) P Q n 0.52637690 Peri. 58.43747 +0.97481948 +0.12540325 a 1.5191646 Node 293.79067 -0.19884083 +0.86312257 e 0.3982871 Incl. 11.62571 +0.10094208 +0.48917630 P 1.87 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 9...
Title: MOONS: a Multi-Object Optical and Near-infrared Spectrograph for the VLT Authors: M. Cirasuolo, J. Afonso, R. Bender, P. Bonifacio, C. Evans, L. Kaper, E. Oliva, L. Vanzi, M. Abreu, E. Atad-Ettedgui, C. Babusiaux, F. Bauer, P. Best, N. Bezawada, I. Bryson, A. Cabral, K. Caputi, M. Centrone...
Title: The pulsating DA white dwarf star EC 14012-1446: results from four epochs of time-resolved photometry Authors: G. Handler, E. Romero-Colmenero, J. L. Provencal, K. Sanchawala, M. A. Wood, I. Silver, W.-P. Chen The pulsating DA white dwarfs are the coolest degenerate stars that undergo se...
Title: KIC 10526294: a slowly rotating B star with rotationally split quasi-equally spaced gravity modes Author: P. I. Pápics, E. Moravveji, C. Aerts, A. Tkachenko, S. A. Triana, S. Bloemen, J. Southworth Massive stars are important for the chemical enrichment of the universe. Since internal mi...
Title: Merger Signatures in the Galaxy Cluster Abell 98 Author: Rachel Paterno-Mahler, Scott W. Randall, Esra Bulbul, Felipe Andrade-Santos, Elizabeth L. Blanton, Christine Jones, Stephen Murray, Ryan E. Johnson We present results from Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of Abell 98 (A98),...
Galaxy Caught Blowing Bubbles Hubble's famous images of galaxies typically show elegant spirals or soft-edged ellipses. But these neat forms are only representative of large galaxies. Smaller galaxies like the dwarf irregular galaxy Holmberg II come in many shapes and types that are harder to c...
Sun 14.07.14: Four panel (single images) photomosaic captured with a 100mm f5 refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. (cloudy conditions + overexposed)
