Gliese 667 C is a red dwarf star of spectral class of M2V. It has a mass of around 38% of that of the Sun and only 0.3% of the Sun's visual luminosity. The apparent magnitude is 10.25, giving an absolute magnitude of around 11.03. Two extrasolar planets, Gliese 667 Cb and Gliese 667 Cc, have been found orbi...
A possible magnitude 13.5 supernova was discovered by S. Howerton and the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey on the 14th March, 2012, in the spiral galaxy NGC 4790 in the constellation Virgo. The supernova is located 4" East and 2" North from the center of the galaxy.As yet the type is un...
ESO's Telescopes Uncover Super Star Cluster in the Milky Way.
Until now, super star clusters were only known to exist very far away, mostly in groups of interacting galaxies. Now, however, a team of European astronomers have uncover one within our own Galaxy.
The newly found massive structure...
Title: A snowflake's chance in heaven Authors: Mark A. Walker We consider the survival of solid H2 in the diffuse interstellar medium, with application to grains which are small enough to qualify as dust. Consideration of only the thermal aspects of this problem leads to the familiar conclusion th...
'meteor shower' pelts their Shrewsbury garden with rocks A mother-of-two told how her young children had a lucky escape - after fragments from a meteor shower rained down in their back garden. Sarah Marston-Jones was playing outside with Harry, two, and Benjamin, four, when asteroid rocks fell be...
Orbital elements:
2013 MY6 Earth MOID = 0.2087 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 31.42557 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.51013283 Peri. 10.65765 -0.64852843 -0.38441944
a 1.5512455 Node 124.48890 +0.62651942 -0.75975807
e 0.5029953 Incl. 52.85280 +0.43230115 +0.52439428
P 1.93 H 17.9 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2013 MW6 Earth MOID = 0.0503 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 3.04668 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.42974140 Peri. 191.16096 -0.97843665 +0.20654312
a 1.7391268 Node 0.76246 -0.18128684 -0.85577672
e 0.4861275 Incl. 5.54372 -0.09897876 -0.47432705
P 2.29 H 19.9 G 0.15...
First Transiting Planets in a Star Cluster Discovered It would thus seem an unlikely place to find alien worlds. Yet 3,000 light-years from Earth, in the star cluster NGC 6811, astronomers have found two planets smaller than Neptune orbiting Sun-like stars. The discovery, published in the journa...
Title: The Youngest Galactic Supernova Remnant: G1.9+0.3 Authors: S.P. Reynolds, K.J. Borkowski, D.A. Green, U. Hwang, I. Harrus, R. Petre (Version v2) Our 50 ks Chandra observation of the small radio supernova remnant (SNR) G1.9+0.3 shows a complete shell structure with strong bilateral symm...
Lares, Aedes: (delubra, Ovid): a temple of the Lares in summa sacra via (Solin. I.23), mentioned first in connection with the prodigies of 106 B.C. (Obseq. 41),º and by Cicero (de nat. deor. III.63; Plin. NH II. 16) to locate the fanum Orbonae. It was restored by Augustus (Mon. Anc. IV.7 - Grk. X.11: an...
Orbital elements: 2009 WM1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0008 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 49.84341 (2000.0) P Q n 0.74538592 Peri. 163.60933 +0.69185486 -0.60991002 a 1.2047084 Node 240.55222 +0.60260159 +0.78258974 e 0.1851285 Incl. 26.34593 +0.39775392 -0.12475203 P 1.32 H 20.4 G 0.15...
In the spring of 2004, the GOES-O spacecraft was under construction, and went through thermal-vac testing in the spring of 2005. In mid-2005, it was placed in pre-launch storage at Boeing Space Systems (BSS). As of March 2006, the GOES-O launch date was planned for 7 July 2007. As of January 2009, the...
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