Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson. The initial episode of the TV series (the long pilot TV movie) was broadcast on September 17, 1978. However, about 30 minutes before the end, that broadcast was interrupted by the announcement of the signing...
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published on the 18th October 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded b...
Title: MOA-2011-BLG-293Lb: A testbed for pure survey microlensing planet detections Authors: J. C. Yee, Y. Shvartzvald, A. Gal-Yam, I. A. Bond, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski, C. Han, A. Gould, J. Skowron, D. Suzuki, the MOA Collaboration, the OGLE Collaboration, the MicroFUN Collaboration Microle...
A partial lunar eclipse took place on October 17, 2005, the second of two lunar eclipses in 2005. It was visible from Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand after sunset, and in the western side of North America before sunrise. Read more
The 180 - 390 metre wide asteroid 2013 RH74 will make a close pass (20.5 lunar distances, 0.0526 AU), travelling at 12.26 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2013 @ 08:26 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
The 48 - 110 metre wide asteroid 2013 TK will make a close pass (47.2 lunar distances, 0.1212 AU), travelling at 8.58 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th October, 2013 @ 03:25 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The biggest known star in the cosmos is in its death throes and will eventually explode, astronomers said on Wednesday. Using a telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, the astronomers said they had spotted telltale signs in a star called W26. Located about 16,000 light years away i...
NGC 1137 (also PGC 10942, UGC 2374, MCG 0-8-43, GWT 389.42 or IRAS02514 0245) is a magnitude +12.5 spiral galaxy, located 140 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refra...
NGC 1129 (also PGC 10959, UGC 2373, MCG 7-7-4, 539,124 GWT, GWT VV 85 or 540.6) is a magnitude +11.9 elliptical galaxy, located 239 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum...
NGC 1122 (also NGC 1123, PGC 10890, UGC 2353, MCG 7-6-83, GWT 539 117 or IRAS02496 4200) is a magnitude +12.2 barred spiral galaxy, located 165 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch)...
NGC 1119 (also PGC 10607, ESO 546-24 and IRAS02459-1811) is a magnitude +13.8 lenticular galaxy, located 200 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Clark &...
NGC 1091 (also PGC 10424, ESO 546-16, MCG -3-8-13 or HCG 21E) is a magnitude +14.3 barred spiral galaxy, located 405 million light-years away n the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth using a 66.04 cm (26 inch) Alvan Cl...
NGC 1038 (also PGC 10096, UGC 2158, MCG 0-7-76 or GWT 388.90) is a magnitude +13.5 spiral galaxy, located 277 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Ob...
