NGC 5223 (also MCG 6-30-40, UGC 8553 and PGC 47822) is a magnitude +13.0 elliptical galaxy located 331 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 at Dat...
NGC 5228 (also MCG 6-30-43, UGC 8556 and PGC 47837) is a magnitude +13.3 elliptical galaxy located 353 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 at Dat...
NGC 5240 (also MCG 6-30-56, UGC 8587 and PGC 47971) is a magnitude +13.1 spiral galaxy located 103 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 at Datchet...
NGC 5681 (also IRAS 14332+0831, MCG 2-37-25, UGC 9393 and PGC 52169) is a magnitude +13.5 face-on spiral galaxy located 363 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. The galaxy was discovered by Danish-German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refra...
Scientists probe Earth's last warm phase Scientists now have a fuller picture of what happened at the poles during the last warm phase on Earth. Known as the Eemian, this time period extended from roughly 129,000 years ago to about 116,000 years before present. The poles were known to have been a few d...
The Breja (LL6 chondrite) meteorite fell in Morocco/Algeria, on the 1st May, 2010. A total mass of +11 kg was recovered. 31° 59' 35"N, 2° 59' 36"W Official classification is pending but this appears to be a LL6 OC. Source
Title: A 4-Planet System Orbiting the K0V Star HD 141399 Author: Steven S. Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Eugenio J. Rivera, Robert Kibrick, Jennifer Burt, Russell Hanson, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory W. Henry, Gregory Laughlin We present precision radial velocity (RV) data sets from Keck-HIRES and from L...
Researchers have discovered a Neptune-mass planet around the M dwarf star Gl 581 (Spectral Type M3V, 0.31 solar masses), using precise Doppler measurements with the HARPS spectrograph at the La Silla Observatory.
The observed radial velocities reveal a circular orbit with a p...
British engineers have been asked to build the payload for what will become one of the biggest commercial telecoms satellites ever launched. London-based Inmarsat signed a contract on Friday with industrialists to construct the Alphasat I-XL mission. The six-tonne satellite will deliver high...
Ukraine's Zenit rocket may launch first Azeri communications satellite The Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenne Design Bureau has submitted an application to enter its Zenit rocket in a tender conducted by Azerbaijan's Communications Ministry to place the country's first communications satelli...
NGC 1724 (also OCL 405) is a magnitude +11.7 asterism located in the constellation Auriga. The group of stars was discovered by German astronomer George Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker using a 10.16 cm (4 inch) refractor at the Hamburg Observatory on the 30th April 1864. Right Ascension 05h 03m 33.0s, Dec...
NGC 4701 (also IRAS 12466+0339, MCG 1-33-15, UGC 7975 and PGC 43331) is a magnitude +12.4 face-on spiral galaxy located 33 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum refle...
NGC 4852 (also Collinder 266, ESO 131-SC17 and OCL 894) is a magnitude +8.9 open cluster located in the constellation Centaurus. The cluster was discovered by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop using a homemade 9-foot 22.86 cm (9 inch) f/12 speculum Newtonian reflector at Paramatta, New South Wal...
NGC 4900 (also IRAS 12580+0246, MCG 1-33-35, UGC 8116 and PGC 44797) is a magnitude +11.4 face-on spiral galaxy located 44 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum refle...
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