* Astronomy

RX J1532.9+3021: Extreme Power of Black Hole Revealed Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a suite of other telescopes to reveal one of the most powerful black holes known. The black hole has created enormous structures in the hot gas surrounding it and prevented trillions o...

The Le Pressoir (H5) meteorite fell in Centre, France, on the 25th January, 1845. A total mass of 3 kg was recovered. 47° 10'N, 0° 26'E

The Zomba (L6) meteorite fell in Southern, Malawi, on the 25th January, 1899. A total mass of 7.5 kg was recovered. 15° 11'S, 35° 17'E

The Mezel (L6) meteorite fell in Auvergne, France, on the 25th January, 1949. A total mass of 1300 g was recovered. 45° 46'N, 3° 15'E

The Grefsheim (L5) meteorite fell in Hedmark, Norway, on the 25th January, 1976. A total mass of 45.5 g was recovered. 60° 40'N, 11° 0'E

NGC 1807 (als OCL 462, Lund 154, Mel 29 and Cr 59) is a magnitude +7.0 asterism located in the constellation Taurus, near the border with Orion, about 8° east of the star Aldebaran. The asterism consists of a chain of 6-7 yellow-orange stars with magnitudes between 8.9 and 10.2 lying a few arcminutes aw...

NGC 3179 (also UGC 5555, MCG 7-21-36, ZWG 211.37, NPM1G +41.0230 and PGC 30078) is a magnitude +13.1 almost edge-on spiral galaxy located 334 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered by Irish astronomer Bindon Blood Stoney, assistant to William Parsons, using t...

The Cullinan diamond was found by Thomas Evan Powell, a miner who brought it to the surface and gave it to Frederick Wells, surface manager of the Premier Diamond Mining Company in Cullinan, on January 26, 1905. The stone was named after Sir Thomas Cullinan, the owner of the diamond mine. Read more[...

Dydd Santes Dwynwen, literally meaning 'Day of Saint Dwynwen' in Welsh, is considered to be the Welsh equivalent to Valentine's Day and is celebrated on 25 January every year. It celebrates Dwynwen, the Welsh Saint of love. 25 January is the feast day of Saint Dwynwen. Read more

The 1200 - 2600 metre wide asteroid 2007 SJ will make a close pass (18.9 lunar distances, 0.0486 AU), travelling at 17.22 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st January 2014 @ 15:39 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...

Comet C/1783 X1 was first observed (many observers) on the 24th January 1784. It's orbital period is unknown. Source See more

Meteor of January 24, 1897 (Los Angeles) Dear Sir: - On January 24th, at about 3:15 p.m., I observed a very large meteor, which passed over this place and, as near as I am able to judge, in a direction nearly due east. Unfortunately, I did not note the exact time of its appearance, and am not able to state th...

Large Meteor of January 24, 1892 It is to be hoped that further observations will be forth-coming of the brilliant meteor of January 24, 10h. 55m. (described by Mr. T. Heath in your last number, p. 295), so that its real path may be computed. I think there is little doubt the meteor belonged to a shower of...

The detonating meteor of January 24, 1934 This spectacular meteor fell at about 11:00 PM, 90 meridian time. Nine observers were interviewed in and near Iowa City, Iowa, by Bemrose Boyd, Ethel Roorda, snd myself. Five observers were interviewed in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the same persons. Two observ...

Orbital elements: 2014 BZ2 Earth MOID = 0.0026 AU Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5 MPC M 248.21659 (2000.0) P Q n 0.81318102 Peri. 96.08424 -0.57904848 +0.81526399 a 1.1367838 Node 138.52961 -0.75207204 -0.53086457 e 0.5524697 Incl. 0.59616 -0.31478644 -0.23135995 P 1.21 H 25.5 G 0....