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Alpha-Scorpiids meteor shower in constellation Scorpius ZHR: 3.2 Velocity: 32.9km/s Radiant(J2000): RA=16.5h/247° Dec=-28.8° (9h)

Sun 15.05.14: Ultraviolet Photo mosaic (hazy conditions) Sun 15.05.14: Photo mosaic (hazy conditions)

Orbital elements: 2007 VE3 = 2014 HL132 Earth MOID = 0.0163 AU Id. F. Manca Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC M 349.04891 (2000.0) P Q n 0.28868302 Peri. 325.88587 +0.63400728 +0.77329580 a 2.2673673 Node 343.45700 -0.70395340 +0.57338551 e 0.6983667 Incl. 1.39959 -0.32013180 +0....

The Tree of Life is a 2011 American fantasy drama film with experimental elements written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain. The film chronicles the origins and meaning of life by way of a middle-aged man's childhood memories of his family livin...

NGC 5351 (also IRAS 13513+3809, MCG 6-31-8, UGC 8809 and PGC 49359) is a magnitude +12.1 spiral galaxy located 166 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum refl...

NGC 5361 (also IRAS 13524+3841, MCG 7-29-15 and PGC 49441) is a magnitude +13.9 spiral galaxy located 260 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector Wi...

NGC 5380 (also MCG 6-31-28, UGC 8870 and PGC 49605) is a magnitude +13.0 elliptical galaxy located 146 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector Winds...

NGC 5394 (also Arp 84, IRAS 13564+3741, MCG 6-31-33, UGC 8898 and PGC 49739) is a magnitude +13.0 interacting spiral galaxy located 159 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with the neighbouring galaxy NGC 5395: these two galax...

NGC 5396 (also NGC 5375, IRAS 13546+2924, MCG 5-33-27, UGC 8865 and PGC 49604) is a magnitude +11.5 face-on spiral galaxy located 110 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch)...

NGC 6104 (also IRAS 16146+3549, MCG 6-36-11, UGC 10309 and PGC 57684) is a magnitude +13.3 spiral galaxy located 387 million light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum r...

NGC 6207 (also IRAS 16412+3655, MCG 6-37-7, UGC 10521 and PGC 58827) is a magnitude +11.6 spiral galaxy located 39 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector...

Title: Raman Scattered Ne VIIlambda973 at 4881 angstroms in the Symbiotic Star V1016 Cygni Author: Hee-Won Lee, Jeong-Eun Heo, Byeong-Cheol Lee We present the high resolution spectra of the symbiotic star V1016 Cygni obtained with the Bohyunsan Optical Echelle Spectrograph in 2003 and 2005, fr...

The 180 - 410 metre wide asteroid 2013 WU44 will make a close pass (63.4 lunar distances, 0.1629 AU), travelling at 11.24 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th May 2014 @ 02:45 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...

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NGC 5804 (also IRAS 14554+4952, MCG 8-27-38, UGC 9627 and PGC 53437) is a magnitude +13.1 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 specu...