* Astronomy

The 53 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2014 HN178 will make a close pass (17.3 lunar distances, 0.0445 AU), travelling at 6.81 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th June 2014 @ 08:03 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...

The 29 - 65 metre wide asteroid 2007 FY20 will make a close pass (52.4 lunar distances, 0.1347 AU), travelling at 7.65 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th June 2014 @ 16:49 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...

Orbital elements: C/2012 J1 (Catalina) T 2012 Sept. 13.46046 TT MPC q 3.5799440 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 125.56241 +0.88413378 +0.06283432 Node 235.57566 -0.09066961 +0.99515241 e 1.0 Incl. 34.14475 +0.45835192 +0.07565396 From 83 observations 2012 May 13-14. MPEC 2012 - J49 Comet C/2012 J1...

MPEC 2013-O54

ATel 6233: ASAS-SN Discovery of a Very Bright Optical Transient

A two day event of talks, discussions and poster presentations by leading researchers currently doing sciene in the enviroment of Space. Date and Venue: 16th & 17th June 2012 Satrosphere Science Centre, 179 Constitution Street, Aberdeen. Read more

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket (AV-009) in the 401 vehicle configuration with a four-meter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and a single-engine Centaur upper stage, is to launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from SLC-41, Cape Canaveral,...

Orbital elements: C/2012 L2 (LINEAR) T 2013 Apr. 10.29633 TT MPC q 1.1463432 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 215.70685 -0.13659703 -0.29001862 Node 266.65505 +0.97388488 -0.21436406 e 1.0 Incl. 71.59328 -0.18135462 -0.93270427 From 35 observations 2012 June 1-5. MPEC 2012 - L13 Comet C/2012 L2 (LI...

NGC 6224 (also MCG+01-43-002, UGC 10555 and PGC 59017) is a magnitude +13.5 elliptical galaxy located 415 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. 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 O...

NGC 6225 (also MCG+01-43-003, UGC 10556 and PGC 59024) is a magnitude +13.8 elliptical galaxy located 452 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. 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 O...

NGC 6435 (also MCG+10-25-080, UGC 10947 and PGC 60667) is a magnitude +13.9 compact galaxy located 390 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 Observa...

NGC 6726 (also ESO 396-N13) is a magnitude +11.4 reflection nebula near NGC 6727 located 400(?) light-years away in the constellation Corona Australis near Gamma Coronae Australis. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt using a 15.75 cm (6.2 inch) f/15 Pl...

NGC 6727 (also ESO 396-N14) is a magnitude +11.4 reflection nebula near NGC 6726 located 400(?) light-years away in the constellation Corona Australis near Gamma Coronae Australis. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt using a 15.75 cm (6.2 inch) f/15 Pl...

New-born stars wreak havoc in their nursery Credit ESO A new image from ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a close-up view of the dramatic effects new-born stars have on the gas and dust from which they formed. Although the stars themselves are not visible, material they have ejected is colliding with...

Spoiler Spoiler Messier 7 or M7, also designated NGC 6475 and sometimes known as known as the Ptolemy Cluster, is an open cluster of stars in the conste...