WGS-2 F-2 Atlas 5 Launch The Wideband Gapfiller satellites will provide near-term continuation and augmentation of the services currently provided by the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) and the Global Broadcast Service (GBS) Ka services currently provided by GBS payloads on U...
Title: The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: ACT-CL J0102-4215 "El Gordo," a Massive Merging Cluster at Redshift 0.87 Authors: Felipe Menanteau, John P. Hughes, Cristobal Sifon, Matt Hilton, Jorge Gonzalez, Leopoldo Infante, L. Felipe Barrientos, Andrew J. Baker, Sudeep Das, Mark J. D...
In April, 1878, a large meteor was observed in broad daylight, passing from south to north, and falling it was supposed, about twenty miles south of Ballater. Mr. A. S. Herschel, Professor of Physics in the College of Science, 'Newcastle-on-Tyne, published a letter in The Scotsman, intimating his...
The 800 - 1800 metre wide asteroid 2000 HD24 will make a close pass (42.2 lunar distances, 0.1084 AU), travelling at 20.44 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th April 2014 @ 22:52 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 15 - 32 metre wide asteroid 2013 TT5 will make a close pass (10.8 lunar distances, 0.0277 AU), travelling at 4.52 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 10th October 2013 @ 19:56 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
NGC 5550 (also MCG 2-36-65, UGC 9154 and PGC 51108) is a magnitude +13.2 spiral galaxy located 341 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 on the 4th April 1831. Right Asc...
NGC 5655 (also IRAS 14284+1411, MCG 2-37-20, UGC 9333 and PGC 51857) is a magnitude +13.2 spiral galaxy located 239 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 on the 4th Apr...
Title: A dense disk of dust around the born-again Sakurai's object Authors: Olivier Chesneau (FIZEAU), G.C. Clayton (LSU), F. Lykou (the University of Manchester), O. De Marco (AMNH), Ch. Hummel (ESO), F. Kerber (ESO), E. Lagadec (the University of Manchester), J. Nordhaus (Princeton Universi...
A mid-level flare, an M6.5, erupted from the sun on April 2, 2014, peaking at 10:05 a.m. EDT. This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in a blend of two wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light: 131 Angstroms and 171 Angstroms, colourised in yellow and red, respectively. Re...
Tomorrow will be the earliest sunrise of the year.
Comet 9/P Tempel 1 is in the constellation Virgo .
At magnitude 9 it is within reach of most telescopes. In small scope, it is dim, small, and has a slight concentration toward the core.
Now is a good time to start tracking the target of [...
The 52 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2014 EC49 will make a close pass (34.5 lunar distances, 0.0886 AU), travelling at 8.14 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 3rd April 2014 @ 03:29 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256 A...
NGC 2820 (also IRAS 09177+6428, MCG 11-12-6, UGC 4961 and PGC 26498) is a magnitude +12.8 spiral galaxy located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflect...