Mercury: at magnitude 0.8, starts the month in the constellation of Aquarius. Mercury is at inferior Conjunction on the 4th March. Mercury is Dichotomy (Half phase) on the 11th and at Greatest Elongation (27.6° West) on the 14th. The planet is at Aphelion on the 19th. (On March 2nd, RA=21h20m17s...
On March 24, 1933, a meteor fell from the sky at Pasamonte, New Mexico, in the United States. The large Pasamonte meteoroid produced a meteorite fall that totalled only 3-4 kg. The meteorites are an example of the class of fine-grained stony meteorites known as eucrites (calcic achondrites), whic...
The 31 - 68 metre wide asteroid 2014 DG80 will make a close pass (15.5 lunar distances, 0.0400 AU), travelling at 6.46 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th March, 2014 @ 05:00 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
NGC 2718 (also IRAS 08561+0629, MCG 1-23-15, UGC 4707 and PGC 25225) is a magnitude +11.8 face-on spiral galaxy located 176 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 speculum ref...
NGC 3203 (also ESO 500-24, MCG -4-25-2 and PGC 30177) is a magnitude +12.1 spiral galaxy located 112 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 Good Hope on the...
NGC 3230 (also MCG 2-27-7, UGC 5624 and PGC 30463) is a magnitude +12.8 spiral galaxy located 144 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Windsor Road, Slough, on the 24...
NGC 3305 (also ESO 501-30, MCG -4-25-31 and PGC 31421) is a magnitude +12.7 elliptical galaxy located 180 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 Good Hope...
NGC 3308 (also ESO 501-34, MCG -4-25-32 and PGC 31438) is a magnitude +11.9 lenticular galaxy located 163 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 Good Hope...
NGC 3309 (also ESO 501-36, MCG -4-25-34 and PGC 31466) is a magnitude +11.6 elliptical galaxy located 187 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 Good Hope...
Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times the...
NGC 3336 (also ESO 437-36, IRAS 10379-2730, MCG -5-25-36 and PGC 31754)is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy located about 184 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 reflec...
Title: The Parsec-scale Accretion Disk in NGC 3393 Authors: Paul T. Kondratko, Lincoln J. Greenhill, James M. Moran We present a Very Long Baseline Interferometry image of the water maser emission in the nuclear region of NGC3393. The maser emission has a linear distribution oriented at a positio...
