NGC 3342 (also NGC 3332, UGC 5807 and PGC 31768) is a magnitude +12.3 elliptical galaxy located 265 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm(18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecting telescope at Datch...
NGC 5125 (also MCG 2-34-11, UGC 8421 and PGC 46827) is a magnitude +12.6 almost face-on spiral galaxy located 321 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Windsor Road, S...
Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office Much later, after the hole in the roof had been fixed and the debris cleaned up, after the cause of the damage finally had become clear, Frank Ciampi wondered: What are the odds? He is a doctor. He has worked for 18 years in the two-story building in Lorton that hous...
New world record for longest echo set near Invergordon A new world record for the longest echo in a man-made structure has been set in an underground fuel depot constructed in Scotland before World War Two. Read more
Title: A deep search for CO J=2-1 emission from a Lyman-Alpha blob at z~6.595 Authors: Jeff Wagg, Nissim Kanekar We have used the Green Bank Telescope to carry out a deep search for redshifted CO J=2-1 line emission from an extended (>17 kpc) Ly-Alpha blob (LAB), "Himiko", at z~6.595....
Exploding meteor lights Bay Area skies Thursday morning The spectacular bright light in the sky that stunned Young and other Bay Area residents was an exploding meteor called a fireball, said Chabot Space and Science Centre astronomer Ben Burress. The flash of light lit up the skies about 5:25 a.m....
A Delta 2 rocket carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes just seconds after launch. More than 250 tons of flaming debris and rocket fuel rain down from the sky. GPS IIR-1 or GPS SVN-42 was the first Block IIR GPS satellite to be launched. It was to have bee...
Trolig meteor lös upp himlen Roger Svensson hade precis riktat en övervakningskamera, som han höll pĺ att testa, ut genom fönstret när himlen lös upp. Först trodde han att det var frĺgan om ett fyrverkeri. Sedan förstod han att det var nĺgot mycket kraftigare. Film: 17 januari 2009 [url=http://syd...
NGC 2149 (also IRAS 06010-0943) is a magnitude +12.6 reflection nebula located 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. The nebula is just to east of the nearby nebula VDB 66 which surrounds the magnitude +10.22 star BD-09 1310 The nebula was discovered by French astronomer Edouar...
NGC 1907 (also C 0524+352, OCL 434) is a magnitude +8.2 open star cluster located 4,500 light years away in the constellation Auriga. The cluster is located south of M38 and contains about forty stars of magnitude +10.0 or less. It is quite compact with a dense appearance. The cluster was discovered b...
NGC 841 (also MCG +06-05-101, UGC 1676, PGC 8372) is a magnitude +12.6 inclined spiral galaxy located 191.77 - 210 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecto...
This month, another anniversary has taken place, but one quite obscure except to some dealers, collectors and researchers of meteorites. Eighty-six years ago, on Nov. 9, 1923, a then-unknown, middle-aged science professor named Harvey Nininger was walking home from work in McPherson, Kan. Sud...
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