NGC 4984 (also MCG -2-34-4, 2SZ 6, IRAS13062-1514 and PGC 45585) is a magnitude +11.3 lenticular galaxy located 59 million light-years away in Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Datchet, Berkshire,...
NGC 5073 (also MCG -2-34-25, UGCA 346, FGC 1594, IRAS13167-1435 and PGC 46441) is a magnitude +12.6 barred spiral galaxy located 126 million light-years away in Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Dat...
Sun 07.02.14: The eastern limb Sun 07.02.14: The western limb Sun 07.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor Sun 07.02.14: Single image capture of Sunspot 11968 Sun 07.02.14: Single image capture of Sunspot 11967 Sun 07.02.14: Sunspot 11967 captured with a 100mm refractor and webcam...
Title: Meteors, Meteoric phenomena, February 7-22 Authors: Denning, W. F. 1894 February 8, 0:28 p.m. A fireball in sunshine observed from many places. It moved swiftly from a radiant in Hercules. Read more
Comet C/1743 C1 approached less than 0.0390 AU from the Earth on the 8th February 1743 Source This comet was discovered because of its very close approach to Earth. Although the small inclination of its orbit has caused several astronomers tp speculate that the comet might be a short-period one, the...
The 13 - 30 metre wide asteroid 2014 BP43 will make a close pass (5.5 lunar distances, 0.0142 AU), travelling at 7.43 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th February 2014 @ 12:06 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Charles Dickens statue unveiled in Portsmouth The first Charles Dickens statue in the UK has been unveiled, on what would have been his 202nd birthday. The bronze statue of the writer surrounded by books has been placed in Guildhall Square in Portsmouth, the city in which he was born. More than 100 in...
Bronze Age burial site excavated on Dartmoor An early Bronze Age burial cist containing cremated bones and material dating back 4,000 years has been excavated on Dartmoor. Archaeologists uncovered items from the site on Whitehorse Hill including a woven bag or basket and amber beads. [url=http:...
Earliest footprints outside Africa discovered in Norfolk Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of human footprints outside of Africa, on the Norfolk Coast in the East of England. The footprints are more than 800,000 years old and were found on the shores of Happisburgh. They are direc...
Alfred Merrill Worden (born February 7, 1932) is an American astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Read more
STS-98 was launched in 2001 Spoiler STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. [url=ht...
Salyut 7 (aka DOS-6) was a space station in low Earth orbit from April 1982 to February 1991. It was first manned in May 1982 with two crew via Soyuz T-5, and last visited in June 1986, by Soyuz T-15. Various crew and modules were used over its lifetime, including a total of 12 manned and 15 unmanned launch...
In 1863 John Newlands noticed that when ordered by weight, every eighth element seemed to share similar properties, such as carbon and silicon in the sequence: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, sodium, magnesium and silicon. He called this a Law of Octaves. Three years later, in 1866, he pre...
