* Astronomy

(3017) Petrovic / HIP 68705 event on 2017 May 26, 18:12 UT On 2017 May 26 UT, the 13 km diameter asteroid (3017) Petrovic will occult a 6.3 mag star in the constellation Virgo Read more

ATel 10387: ASAS-SN Discovery of A Likely Galactic Nova ASASSN-17gk on the Rise

Whitelight image of sunspot 12659 captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

ExoMars EDM Landing Site in Meridiani Planum The ExoMars Schiaparelli Lander or Entry, Descent, and landing Module (EDM) reached the Martian surface on 19 October 2016, along with the Trace Gas Orbiter. According to the ExoMars project, both the heat-shield and backshell-plus-parachute separ...

Title: Orion Revisited - I. The massive cluster in front of the Orion Nebula Cluster Authors: J. Alves, H. Bouy The aim of this work is to characterise the stellar population between Earth and the Orion A molecular cloud where the well known star formation benchmark Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is embe...

Title: This is not the feedback you have been looking for: nearby optical AGN rarely drive kpc-scale cold-gas outflows Author: Borislav Nedelchev (1,2), Marc Sarzi (1), Sugata Kaviraj (1) ((1) Center for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, AL10 9AB Hatfield, UK,...

Title: Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 - Where's the Flux? Author: T. S. Boyajian, D. M. LaCourse, S. A. Rappaport, D. Fabrycky, D. A. Fischer, D. Gandolfi, G. M. Kennedy, M. C. Liu, A. Moor, K. Olah, K. Vida, M. C. Wyatt, W. M. J. Best, F. Ciesla, B. Csak, T. J. Dupuy, G. Handler, K. Heng, H. Korhonen, J. Kova...

Judith Gamora Cohen (born May 5, 1946) is the Kate Van Nuys Page Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology. Read more

Ksudach (Russian: ) (also known as Vonyuchy Khrebet Volcano) is a stratovolcano in southern Kamchatka, Russia. The last eruption of Ksudach was in March 1907, on or around the 28, which was one of the largest ever recorded in Kamchatka, with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 5 and a volume of ejected as...

Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest"[url=http://www.geocities.com/goarana668/everest...

Massive Rock Raft Found Floating off New Zealand A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand. The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northea...

Iceland has said that they would resume commercial whaling after a nearly two-decade moratorium, defying a worldwide ban on hunting the mammals for their meat. Fisheries Minister Einar Kristinn Gudfinnsson told Iceland's parliament that his ministry would begin issuing licenses to hunt fin...

Cygnus A (3C 405) is one of the most famous radio galaxies, and among the strongest radio sources in the sky. It was discovered by Grote Reber in 1939. In 1953 Roger Jennison and M K Das Gupta showed it to be a double source. Like all radio galaxies, it contains an active galactic nucleus. [url=http://en...

The uniqueness of Australian Aboriginal people and their long association with the continent has been revealed in a landmark genetic study. Researchers analysed the DNA of more than 120 Aboriginal people and compared it with the DNA of indigenous people in the region, including Papua New Gui...

The Minoan Deities Named: An Archaeologist Gleans Goddesses and Gods from Linear A According to the online Dartmouth course "Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean", the goddess names found include Potinija or Potnia ("Mistress" in later Greek); Atana Potinija or Potnia...