Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 - c. 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901-04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-13. Read more
Title: Discovery and Observations of ASASSN-13db, an EXor Accretion Event on a Low-Mass T Tauri Star Author: Thomas W.-S. Holoien, Jose L. Prieto, Krzysztof Z. Stanek, Christopher S. Kochanek, B. J. Shappee, Z. Zhu, A. Sicilia-Aguilar, D. Grupe, K. Croxall, J. Adams, J. D. Simon, N. Morell S. M. Mc...
Title: SNR G349.7+0.2: A gamma-ray source in the far 3 kpc arm of the Galactic center Author: W.W. Tian, D.A Leahy We analyze the HI absorption profile for TeV Supernova Remnant (SNR) G349.7+0.2 based on updated knowledge of the inner Galaxy's structure. We significantly revise its kinematic dist...
Title: The Double Contact Nature of TT Herculis Author: Dirk Terrell, Robert H. Nelson We present new radial velocities and photometry of the short-period Algol TT Herculis. Previous attempts to model the light curves of the system have met with limited success, primarily because of the lack of a r...
The man who revolutionised amateur astronomy with a cheap, easy-to-build telescope is at the Discovery Museum this week, spreading his infectious love for heavenly objects. John L. Dobson's great contribution to science was the rugged Dobsonian telescope that can be built with cast-off constr...
The 250 - 570 metre wide asteroid 2005 QZ151 will make a close pass (59.5 lunar distances, 0.1529 AU), travelling at 10.59 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th January 2014 @ 04:06 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (...
The 310 - 680 metre wide asteroid 2004 XN14 will make a close pass (65.1 lunar distances, 0.1672 AU), travelling at 14.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th January 2014 @ 00:09 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
NGC 1896 is a magnitude +12.2 asterism located 8480 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The asterism is midway between Beta Taurus and the Berk 19 Open cluster. The grouping (probably an open cluster) was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 i...
NGC 1622 (also MCG -1-12-36, PGC 15635) is a magnitude +13.1 almost edge-on barred spiral galaxy located 222 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy is close to HD 29248, and midway between the galaxies NGC 1618 and NGC 1625. The galaxy was discovered by Anglo-Irish phy...
The Great Hanshin earthquake, or Kobe earthquake, was an earthquake that occurred on Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46 JST (January 16 at 20:46 UTC) in the southern part of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Read more
The Hartley Colliery Disaster was a major Mining accident or disaster in Northumberland, England in 1862. The accident happened on 16 January 1862 when the huge beam used to de-water the mine suddenly broke, and one end plunged into the shaft of the pit. When the broken half of the beam fell, it demoli...
20000 Varuna is a large classical Kuiper belt object (KBO) and a potential dwarf planet. It previously had the provisional designation 2000 WR106 and has been precovered in plates dating back to 1953. Read more Google earth file: Kuip...
Launceston Examiner (Tas. : 1842 - 1899) Wednesday 15 January 1845 THE COMET. The Sydney Herald records as a singular circumstance that a brilliant meteor was observed upon the first appearance of the comet, a phenomenon also attendant upon the visit of the splendid comet in 1843. We are not aware th...
Meteor's Fireball Seen by Hundreds Hundreds of people in New England and New York reported seeing a meteor flash through the sky at around 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the Cape Cod Times and the American Meteor Society. Read more
ATel 5761: The symbiotic star TX CVn has entered an active state Read more RA (2000.0): 124442.08 Dec. (2000.0): +364550.3 Type : ZAND Mag. max : 9.2 Mag. min : 11.8 Mag. system : P Epoch (JD) : - Period (day) : - M-m : - Spec. : B1-B9Veq+K0III-M4
