NGC 5200 is a magnitude +13.7 double star located in the constellation Virgo. The star was discovered by American astronomer Phillip Sydney Coolidge using a 38.1 cm (15 inch) f/18 Merz refractor at the Harvard College Observatory on the 30th April 1859. Right Ascension 13h 31m 42.4s, Declination -...
NGC 5566 (also Arp 286, IRAS 14178+0409, MCG 1-37-2, UGC 9175 and PGC 51233) is a magnitude +11.1 barred spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy is gravitationally interacting with the neighbouring galaxies NGC 5560 and NGC 5569: the trio of galaxi...
NGC 5690 (also IRAS 14351+0230, MCG 0-37-19, UGC 9416 and PGC 52273) is a magnitude +11.8 edge-on spiral galaxy located 81 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy is near to the magnitude +6.45 double star HD 128563. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer W...
The Tomorrow People is a British children's science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran between 1973 and 1979. The series was re-imagined in 1992, Roger Price acting as executive producer. A third incarnation...
The 44 - 99 metre wide asteroid 2014 FR52 will made a close pass (16.6 lunar distances, 0.0427 AU), travelling at 6.77 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th April 2014 @ 04:09 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
Irish astronomer discovers supernova An Irish amateur astronomer has achieved yet another first by discovering a supernova from his back garden in Dublin. Dave Grennan discovered the new 'type 1/c' supernova nearly two weeks ago. Read more
Exploring Terrestrial Planet Formation in the TW Hydrae AssociationAuthors: F. J. Low (1), P. S. Smith (1), M. Werner (2), C. Chen, (2 and 3), V. Krause (4), M. Jura (5), D. C. Hines (6) ((1) Steward Observatory, (2) JPL, (3) NOAO/KPNO, (4) California Institute of Technology, (5...
Title: The Spitzer c2d Survey of Large, Nearby, Interstellar Clouds.X. The Chamaeleon II Pre-Main Sequence Population as Observed With IRAC and MIPS Authors: Juan M.Alcala', Loredana Spezzi, Nicholas Chapman, Neal J. Evans II, Tracy L. Huard, Jes K. Jorgens, Bruno Merin, Karl R. Stapelfel, Elv...
Melotte 66 (also OCL 739, Collinder 147 and Lund 336) is a magnitude +7.8 open (galactic) cluster located 14000 light years away in the constellation Puppis. The cluster is composed of about 200 members. The brightest star in the cluster is at magnitude +11.4 Right Ascension 07h 26m 23.0s, Declin...
New satellite sail is propelled by solar protons A tiny new satellite is propelled by repulsion. ESTCube-1, which went into orbit on Tuesday, will put proton-powered electric solar sails to the test for the first time. It could pave the way for speedy trips through the solar system. [url=http://ww...
Title: Discovery of a compact companion to the hot subdwarf star BD+37 442 Authors: N. La Palombara (1), S. Mereghetti (1), A. Tiengo (1,2), P. Esposito (3) ((1) INAF/IASF Milano, (2) IUSS Pavia, (3) INAF/OA Cagliari) We report the results of the first X-ray observation of the luminous and helium-r...
Title: Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of the Type Iax Supernovae SN 2005hk and SN 2008A Author: Curtis McCully, Saurabh W. Jha, Ryan J. Foley, Ryan Chornock, Jon A. Holtzman, David D. Balam, David Branch, Alexei V. Filippenko, Joshua Frieman, Johan Fynbo, Lluis Galbany, Mo...
The first tsunami documented by eyewitnesses transpired in Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. The wave of up to 4 meters caused considerable damage to the city of Lucerne. It was triggered by landslides caused by an earthquake with its epicentre in Unterwalden in central Switzerland. [video=http://w...
NGC 3717 (also IRAS 11290-3001, MCG -5-27-15, UGCA 238 and PGC 35539) is a magnitude +11.2 spiral galaxy located 80 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. 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 G...
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