* Astronomy

Image captured with a 100mm f5 Helios refractor and Vesta pro webcam.

Messier 29 (also M29, NGC 6913, Collinder 422 and OCL 168) is a magnitude +7.1 open star cluster located 7,200 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The cluster was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier using a 8.38 cm (3.3-inch) refracting telescope at the Hôtel de Cluny (now t...

Google earth file: Lyra.kmz (8kb, kmz)

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

Expand The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), shown here in this artist's conception, will follow the trail blazed by the SMA and bring a depth of understand...

http://www.amtsgym-sdbg.dk/as/sky.htm http://www.darksky.org Unfortunately, an undisturbed sky is no longer an experience possible for everybody. Amateur Astronomers and Wildlife Associations worldwide regard the increasing light pollution with increasing concern. Elect...

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Pitcairn Islands get huge marine reserve The UK is to establish the largest, continuous marine reserve in the world, around the Pitcairn Islands. The Pacific zone will cover 834,000 sq km (322,000 sq miles) - more than twice the land area of the British Isles. Read more

Rare Mexican porpoise faces 'imminent extinction' An immediate extension of a fishing ban is desperately needed to save the world's most endangered marine species. Campaigners say there are only 30 vaquita porpoises left, with their population having plummeted by 90% since 2011. These dark-ey...

Inmarsat rides SpaceX Falcon into orbit Inmarsat, the UK's biggest space company, has boosted its global broadband network with the launch of a fourth high-frequency satellite. The I-5 F4, which will service the voice, video and data needs of remote and on-the-move customers, was taken into orbi...

The largest known asteroid could contain more fresh water than Earth and looks like our planet in other ways, according to a new study that further blurs the line between planets and large space rocks. Astronomers took 267 images of asteroid [url=http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/blo...

Startling new evidence from boreholes drilled into the 120-mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico indicate that the great impact, happened 300,000 years too early to have been the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. T...

Asteroid (196) Philomela is a large and bright main-belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid. Read more

Asteroid (12) Victoria is at opposition on the 11th May, 2010 Distance to Sun=2.098 AU Distance to Earth=1.088 AU Magnitude= 9.1 mag Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2010 05 01 15 21.90 -20 49.5 1.131 2.124 166.7 6.3 9.6 2010 05 06 15 17.48 -20 07.3 1.108 2.112 172.7 3.5 9.4 201...

Lyra is a constellation. Its name is Latin for the lyre, a stringed musical instrument used in classical antiquity and later. Lyra was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations recognised by the International Astro...