NGC 6907 (also ESO 528-3, IRAS 20221-2458, MCG -4-48-6, UGCA 418 and PGC 64650) is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located 146 million light-years away in the constellation Capricornus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 spec...
NGC 6945 (also MCG -1-52-15 and PGC 65132) is a magnitude +13.4 elliptical galaxy located 174 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point obse...
Title: The Most Distant Stars in the Milky Way Author: John J. Bochanski, Beth Willman, Nelson Caldwell, Robyn Sanderson, Andrew A. West, Jay Strader, Warren Brown We report on the discovery of the most distant Milky Way (MW) stars known to date: ULAS J001535.72+015549.6 and ULAS J074417.48+2532...
Orbital elements:
2014 NK52 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0183 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 6.19910 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28680462 Peri. 267.86835 -0.96296690 -0.26602667
a 2.2772565 Node 256.70150 +0.26181294 -0.88375291
e 0.8474752 Incl. 2.58370 +0.06441073 -0.38498132
P 3.44 H 21....
Title: The Supernova Impostor Impostor SN 1961V: Spitzer Shows That Zwicky Was Right (Again) Authors: C.S. Kochanek (1), D.M. Szczygiel (1), K.Z. Stanek (1) ((1) Department of Astronomy and the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University) SN 1961V, one of Zwicky's...
NGC 6687 (also MCG 10-26-46, UGC 11309 and PGC 62144) is a magnitude +14.0 spiral galaxy located 155 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observator...
NGC 6484 (also IRAS 17497+2429, MCG 4-42-7, UGC 11010 and PGC 61008) is a magnitude +12.3 barred spiral galaxy located 143 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Truman Henry Safford using a 46.99 cm(18.5 inch) refractor at the De...
The 140 - 310 metre wide asteroid 2004 YG1 will make a close pass (52.6 lunar distances, 0.1351 AU), travelling at 10.94 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th June, 2011 @ 16:23 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
The 35 - 78 metre wide asteroid 2014 NG3 will make a close pass (23.1 lunar distances, 0.0594 AU), travelling at 6.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th July 2014 @ 22:26 UT ±00:06. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU...
The 240 - 540 metre wide asteroid 2001 RV17 will make a close pass (44.6 lunar distances, 0.1146 AU), travelling at 11.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th July 2014 @ 13:22 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
Brightness Variations of Sun-like Stars: The Mystery Deepens An extensive study made with ESO's Very Large Telescope deepens a long-standing mystery in the study of stars similar to the Sun. Unusual year-long variations in the brightness of about one third of all Sun-like stars during the latter...
Orbital elements:
2010 SH13 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0438 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 66.00472 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.74416083 Peri. 10.99776 -0.93072172 +0.36305624
a 1.2060302 Node 190.61438 -0.35109809 -0.92074785
e 0.1369246 Incl. 13.86092 -0.10240709 -0.14287607
P 1.32 H 21...
Hubble Sees Spiral Bridge of Young Stars Between Two Ancient Galaxies Astronomers routinely use the crisp view of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study all kinds of intricate details in galaxy clusters. By now you would think they've seen it all - but nature always has new surprises in store. The la...
Angara rocket test launches postponed due to fin problem The beginning of flight tests of the Angara rocket is postponed for a year because of the underfinancing of the launch complex construction at the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Federal Space Agency's head Anatoly Perminov told reporters on Satu...
Exterior walls on a "painted pyramid" buried for centuries in the Mexican jungle have revealed a series of unusual Maya wall murals, complete with hieroglyphic captions, providing archaeologists with a priceless look at day-to-day life in the Mayan empire during 620 to 700 AD. The mur...
