Title: Primordial origins of Earth's carbon Authors: Bernard Marty, Conel M. O'D. Alexander, Sean N. Raymond In this chapter we review the astrophysical origins of Earth's carbon, starting from the products of the Big Bang and culminating with the Earth's formation. We review the measured compo...
NGC 2751 (also MCG 3-23-37 and PGC 25517) is a magnitude +14.3 spiral galaxy located 198 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point observato...
NGC 2752 (also IRAS 09028+1832, MCG 3-23-38, UGC 4772 and PGC 25523) is a magnitude +13.7 edge-on spiral galaxy located 408 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William...
NGC 2778 (also MCG 6-20-43, UGC 4840 and PGC 25955) is a magnitude +12.4 elliptical galaxy located 94 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall Farm...
NGC 2859 (also MCG 6-21-30, UGC 5001 and PGC 26649) is a magnitude +10.9 lenticular galaxy located 83 million light-years away in the constellation Leo Minor. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall...
NGC 2861 (also IRAS 09210+0220, MCG 0-24-10, UGC 4999 and PGC 26607) is a magnitude +13.7 face-on spiral galaxy located 334 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William L...
NGC 2877 (also IRAS 09231+0226, MCG 0-24-15 and PGC 26738) is a magnitude +14.3 face-on spiral galaxy located 336 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's...
NGC 2878 (also MCG 0-24-14, UGC 5022 and PGC 26739) is a magnitude +14.0 spiral galaxy located 336 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 121.92 cm (48 inch) speculum reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point obse...
NGC 5101 (also ESO 508-58, IRAS 13190-2709, MCG -4-32-8, UGCA 351 and PGC 46661) is a magnitude +10.7 barred spiral galaxy located 86 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 spe...
Chandra Observes Extraordinary Event The center of this image contains an extraordinary gamma-ray burst (GRB) called GRB 110328A, observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This Chandra observation confirms the association of GRB 110328A with the core of a distant galaxy and shows that i...
Title: The rise and fall of the Type Ib supernova iPTF13bvn - Not a massive Wolf-Rayet star Author: C. Fremling, J. Sollerman, F. Taddia, M. Ergon, S. Valenti, I. Arcavi, S. Ben-Ami, Y. Cao, S.B. Cenko, A.V. Filippenko, A. Gal-Yam, D.A. Howell We investigate iPTF13bvn, a core-collapse (CC) superno...
Title: A new distant Milky Way globular cluster in the Pan-STARRS1 3pi survey Author: Benjamin P. M. Laevens, Nicolas F. Martin, Branimir Sesar, Edouard J. Bernard, Hans-Walter Rix, Colin T. Slater, Eric F. Bell, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Edward F. Schlafly, William S. Burgett, Kenneth C. Chambers...
Title: Standard big bang nucleosynthesis and primordial CNO Abundances after Planck Author: Alain Coc, Jean-Philippe Uzan, Elisabeth Vangioni Primordial or big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is one of the three historical strong evidences for the big bang model. The recent results by the Planck s...