NGC 3122 (also NGC 3110, NGC 3518, IRAS 10015-0614 and PGC 29192) is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy located 232 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflec...
NGC 3279 (also IC 622, IRAS 10320 +1127, MCG 2-27-27 and PGC 31302) is a magnitude +13.4 spiral galaxy located 64 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer David Peck Todd using the 66.04 cm (26 inch) f/15 Clark refractor of the U.S. Naval Obs...
Title: The B and Be Star Population of NGC 3766 Authors: M. Virginia McSwain, Wenjin Huang, Douglas R. Gies, Erika D. Grundstrom, Richard H. D. Townsend We present multiple epochs of H-alpha spectroscopy for 47 members of the open cluster NGC 3766 to investigate the long term variability of its Be st...
One of the brightest stars of the storied Southern Cross isn't a star at all, but splendid cluster of young stars aptly called the "Jewel Box". This star cluster, one of the treasures of the southern sky, is unforgettable in a small telescope. [url=http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com...
NGC 5468 (also MCG -1-36-7, UGCA 384, IRAS14039-0512 and PGC 50323) is a magnitude +12.5 barred spiral galaxy located 138.94 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy has a small bright core with a short bar and two thin arms. The galaxy forms a pair with the galaxy NGC 5472. In...
NGC 5476 (also MCG-01-36-009, IRAS14055-0551 and PGC 50429) is a magnitude +12.8 spiral galaxy located 122 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 reflector at Datch...
NGC 6025 (also Collinder 296, Caldwell 95, OCL 939 and ESO 136-SC14) is a magnitude +5.1 open star cluster located 2,700 light years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe. The cluster was discovered by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille using a 1.27 cm (0.5 inch), 8x magnificatio...
Collinder 228 is young magnitude +4.4 large scattered cluster located 6523 light years away in the Carina complex. Collinder 228, has one of the major concentrations of O-type stars in the nearby Milky Way. The high-mass unevolved B1V + B1V eclipsing binary system DW Carinae is a member of the open c...
The Gao-Guenie (H5) meteorite fell in Sissili, Burkina Faso, on the 5th March, 1960. Gao-Guenie H5 chondrite was a witnessed fall. An unknown total mass has been recovered. Thousands of stones have been found and continue to be recovered from the area. 11° 39'N, 2° 11'W
Atlas V X-37B OTV-2 Cape launch set for March 4 The 45th Space Wing is set to launch an Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 on March 4, 2011. The rocket will carry an Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV). The launch window for this Air Force mission opens at 3:39 p....
The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2014 DP21 will make a close pass (10.7 lunar distances, 0.0274 AU), travelling at 6.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 5th March 2014 @ 13:39 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 22 - 49 metre wide asteroid 2014 DY110 made a close pass (29.1 lunar distances, 0.0748 AU), travelling at 4.63 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th February 2014 @ 07:02 UT ±01:42. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Title: GALEX J194419.33+491257.0: An Unusually Active SU UMa-Type Dwarf Nova with a Very Short Orbital Period in the Kepler Data Author: Taichi Kato (Kyoto U.), Yoji Osaki (U. of Tokyo) We studied the background dwarf nova of KIC 11412044 in the Kepler public data and identified it with GALEX J1944...
Title: Identification campaign of supernova remnant candidates in the Milky Way. II. X-ray studies of G38.7-1.4 Author: R. H. H. Huang (National Tsing Hua University), J. H. K. Wu (National Tsing Hua University), C. Y. Hui (Chungnam National University), K. A. Seo (Chungnam National University...