The 510 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2005 JA22 will make a close pass (74.7 lunar distances, 0.1920 AU), travelling at 7.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October 2013 @ 07:08 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
The 28 - 62 metre wide asteroid 2013 SM20 will make a close pass (18.1 lunar distances, 0.0466 AU), travelling at 5.78 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October 2013 @ 18:42 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 23 - 52 metre wide asteroid 2013 TO4 will make a close pass (6.3 lunar distances, 0.0161 AU), travelling at 9.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th October 2013 @ 22:26 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
Doppelgänger is a 1969 British science-fiction film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring and Patrick Wymark. Outside Europe, it is known as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, which is now the more popular title. Read more
Did you spot a meteor shower in Stoke-on-Trent last night Strange lights were spotted over Stoke-on-Trent last night. A resident from Ecclestone Place in Chell saw "what looked like a meteor" light up the sky at about 9.50pm. Read more
Fireball Shoots Across Midnight Sky In US Hundreds of people in Indiana and neighbouring states called emergency services when a huge, bright blue flash appeared in the midnight sky. The light, which appeared like a bolt of lightning shortly before 1am local time on Saturday, is thought to have bee...
One of the thousands of minor planets orbiting the Sun has been found to have its own mini planetary system. Astronomer Franck Marchis (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and his colleagues at the Observatoire de Paris (France) have discovered the first triple asteroid system – two small as...
NGC 443 (also IC 1653, MCG 5-4-5, UGC 796 and PGC 4512) is a magnitude +13.1 spiral galaxy located 220 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at the Copenhagen...
NGC 447 (also IC 1656, MCG 5-4-6, UGC 804 and PGC 4550) is a magnitude +14.0 barred spiral galaxy located 257 ±18 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 refractor at th...
NGC 467 (also MCG 0-4-79, UGC 848 and PGC 4736) is a magnitude +12.1 elliptical galaxy located 251 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 reflector a...
NGC 533 (also MCG 0-4-131, UGC 992 and PGC 5283) is a magnitude +11.4 elliptical galaxy located 255 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Cla...
NGC 521 (also IRAS 01219+0128, MCG 0-4-118, UGC 962 and PGC 5190) is a magnitude +11.7 barred spiral galaxy located 231 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 spec...
NGC 550 (also MCG 0-4-146, UGC 1021 and PGC 5374) is a magnitude +12.7 spiral galaxy located 268 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at Clayhall F...
Title: NGC 765 - A disturbed H I giant Authors: A. M. Portas, E. Brinks, M. E. Filho, A. Usero, E. M. Dyke, P.-E. Belles We present Hi spectral line and radio-continuum VLA data of the galaxy NGC 765, complemented by optical and Chandra X-ray maps. NGC 765 has the largest Hi-to-optical ratio known to dat...
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