The 16 - 37 metre wide asteroid 2014 HT190 will make a close pass (28.7 lunar distances, 0.0738 AU), travelling at 8.29 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd May 2014 @ 01:40 UT ±00:07. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
NGC 5612 (also ESO 22-1, IRAS 14281-7809 and PGC 52057) is a magnitude +12.1 spiral galaxy located 124 million light-years away in the constellation Apus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at the Cape of Good Hope on the...
NGC 5796 (also MCG -3-38-39 and PGC 53549) is a magnitude +11.6 elliptical galaxy located 131 million light years away in the constellation Libra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) refractor at the Arcetri Observatory on the 23...
The 270 - 590 metre wide asteroid 2013 WF108 will make a close pass (11.3 lunar distances, 0.0290 AU), travelling at 18.42 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 23rd May 2014 @ 16:00 UT ±00:04. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 7 - 15 metre wide asteroid 2014 KO2 made a close pass (0.01347 AU), travelling at 4.13 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st May 2014 @ 21:48 UT ±00:02. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 AU).
Confirmed: Stellar Behemoth Self-Destructs in a Type IIb Supernova For the first time ever, scientists have direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star - sitting 360 million light years away in the Bootes constellation - died in a violent explosion known as a Type IIb supernova. Using the iPTF pipe...
NGC 6144 (also ESO 517-SC6, IC 4606 and GCL 42) is a magnitude +9.0 globular cluster located 29000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. The cluster is positioned 50' to the ENE of Messier 4. The cluster was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 in...
Title: NGC5694: another extra-galactic globular cluster Authors: A. Mucciarelli, M. Bellazzini, M. Catelan, P. Amigo, M. Correnti, C. Cortés, E. Dalessandro, V. D'Orazi We discuss the chemical composition of six giant stars of the outer Halo globular cluster NGC5694, through the analysis of U...
NGC 5659 (also MCG 4-34-44, UGC 9342 and PGC 51875) is a magnitude +13.9 spiral galaxy located 206 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on th...
Very Distant Galaxy Cluster Confirmed The structures and star populations of massive galaxies appear to change as they age, but much about how these galaxies formed and evolved remains mysterious. Many of the oldest and most massive galaxies reside in clusters, enormous structures where numero...
Title: Discovery of a new PG1159 (GW Vir) Pulsator Author: S. O. Kepler, Luciano Fraga, Don Earl Winget, Keaton Bell, Alejandro H. Corsico, Klaus Werner We report the discovery of pulsations in the spectroscopic PG 1159 type pre-white dwarf SDSS J075415.12+085232.18. Analysis of the spectrum by...
Meteorites add to Tuesday sound mystery It's official now. The fire balls seen by some people in Akola district and city on Tuesday were meteorite showers spread over an area of over 200km. They travelled in eastern direction and some fell in Katol tehsil of Nagpur district. It is the first time that...
