* Astronomy

The Semarkona (LL3.00) meteorite fell in Madhya Pradesh, India, on the 26th October, 1940. A total mass of 691 g was recovered. 22° 15'N, 79° 0'E

The Kyushu (L6) meteorite fell in Kyushu, Japan, on the 26th October, 1886. A total mass of 45 kg was recovered. 32° 2'N, 130° 38'E

Satellite Data Yield New Understanding Of How Galápagos Volcanoes Are Formed And May Erupt In The Future The chance transit of a satellite over the April 2009 eruption of Fernandina volcano - the most active in South America's famed Galápagos archipelago - has revealed for the first time the mechan...

Seven-planet solar system found Astronomers may have identified one of the richest planetary systems yet. The discovery of a seventh planet around the dwarf star KIC 11442793 could be a record, according to two separate teams of researchers. The system bears some similarities to our own, but all s...

NGC 7562 (also UGC 12464, MCG 1-59-24, GWT 406.39 or PGC 70874) is a magnitude +11.6 elliptical galaxy located 166 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflecto...

NGC 1030 (also PGC 10088, UGC 2153, MCG 3-7-39, GWT 462.39 or IRAS02370 1748) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy located 393 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum ref...

NGC 38 (also MCG-1-1-47, Stephan XII and PGC 818) is a magnitude +13.3 spiral galaxy located 321 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector at the Marseille Observatory on the 25th Oc...

NGC 36 (also IRAS 00088+0606, MCG 1-1-43, UGC 106 and PGC 798) is a magnitude +13.3 barred spiral galaxy located 277 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflect...

Torontohenge: When a City's Grid Aligns with the Sun "Torontohenge" is the artificial name for the times when sunrise or sunset is aligned with the streets of Toronto. "Torontohenge" happens four times every year, around February 16-17, April 17-18, August 23-24 and Octob...

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurred at 04:55:39 (UTC) on Tuesday, January 05, 2010, in the South Sandwich Islands region, 685 km East of Bristol Island, South Sandwich Islands, at a depth of 10 km. Location 58.101°S, 14.867°W

The Zhaodong (L4) meteorite fell in Heilongjiang, China, on the 25th October, 1984. A total mass of 42 kg was recovered. 45° 49'N, 125° 55'E

The 330 - 750 metre wide asteroid 2006 HU30 will make a close pass (62.6 lunar distances, 0.1608 AU), travelling at 14.85 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th October, 2013 @ 18:51 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...

The 19 - 43 metre wide asteroid 2013 TO69 will make a close pass (20.7 lunar distances, 0.0532 AU), travelling at 7.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 24th October, 2013 @ 02:57 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...

Title: A Chandra view of NGC 3621: a bulgeless galaxy hosting an AGN in its early phase? Authors: M. Gliozzi (1), S. Satyapal (1), M. Eracleous (2), L. Titarchuk (1), C.C. Cheung (3) ((1) GMU, (2) PSU, (3) NASA GSFC) We report the detection of a weak X-ray point source coincident with the nucleus of the b...