NGC 6172 (also IC 1213, MCG 0-42-3, UGC 10352 and PGC 57937) is a magnitude +12.8 elliptical galaxy located 230 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Marseill...
The 41 - 91 metre wide asteroid 2014 MX will make a close pass (16.3 lunar distances, 0.0418 AU), travelling at 4.99 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th June 2014 @ 22:44 UT ±00:09. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU)...
NGC 6051 (also MCG 4-38-21, UGC 10178 and PGC 57006) is a magnitude +13.1 elliptical galaxy located 440 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Obser...
NGC 6062 (also MCG 3-41-125, UGC 10202 and PGC 57145) is a magnitude +13.6 spiral galaxy located 538 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observa...
Messier 23 (also M23, NGC 6494 and OCL 30) is a magnitude +6.9 open star cluster located 2,150 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. The cluster was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier on the 20th June 1764. Right Ascension 17h 56m 56s, Declination -19° 00' 42" Read...
Messier 26 (also M26, NGC 6694 and OCL 67) is a magnitude +8.0 open star cluster located 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. The cluster was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier on the 20th June 1764. Right Ascension 18h 45m 15.0s, Declination -09° 23' 06" Read mor...
NGC 6502 (also ESO 103-2 and PGC 61352) is a magnitude +12.5 lenticular galaxy located 252 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. 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...
NGC 6545 (also ESO 103-6 and PGC 61551) is a magnitude +13.1 elliptical galaxy located 197 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. 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...
NGC 6776 (also ESO 104-53 and PGC 63185) is a magnitude +12.1 elliptical galaxy located 252 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo. 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 th...
NGC 7226 (also OCL 226) is a magnitude +9.6 open star cluster located 8,500 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The cluster was discovered by American astronomer Edward Singleton Holden using a 39.62 cm (15.6 inch) f/15.6 Clark-refractor at the Washburn Observatory on the 20t...
Stevensite: Mars' minerals could be microbe made New Australian research suggests Martian minerals may have formed from biological rather than geological origins. Read more
Title: A Chandra-HETG VIEW OF MCG +8-11-11 Author: K. D. Murphy, M. A. Nowak We present a spectral analysis of the 118 ks High Energy Transmission Gratings (HETG) observation of the X-ray bright Seyfert 1.5 galaxy MCG +8-11-11, in conjunction with 100 ks of archival Suzaku data, aimed at investigat...
Gemini Image Captures Elegant Beauty of Planetary Nebula Discovered by Amateur Astronomer In a partnership between amateur and professional astronomers, the recent discovery of a dying star's last gasps could help resolve a decades-old debate among astronomers. That is, are stellar companio...
Title: Cold Molecular Gas Along the Cooling X-ray Filament in Abell 1795 Authors: Michael McDonald, Lisa H. Wei, Sylvain Veilleux We present the results of interferometric observations of the cool core of Abell 1795 at CO(1-0) using the Combined Array for Research in Millimetre-Wave Astronomy....
Title: KK258, a new transition dwarf galaxy neighbouring the Local Group Author: I. D. Karachentsev, L. N. Makarova, R. B. Tully, Po-Feng Wu, A. Y. Kniazev Here we present observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope of the nearby, transition-type dwarf galaxy K...
