* Astronomy

Orbital elements: 2013 EC68 Earth MOID = 0.0082 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 29.64422 (2000.0) P Q n 0.51355747 Peri. 340.29018 -0.82372875 -0.56523022 a 1.5443415 Node 165.03780 +0.54060351 -0.80666760 e 0.3617889 Incl. 9.93892 +0.17093504 -0.17263311 P 1.92 H 24.1 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 EG68 Earth MOID = 0.0285 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 84.42076 (2000.0) P Q n 0.81741455 Peri. 98.47517 -0.02675075 -0.99735293 a 1.1328554 Node 352.05624 +0.61005520 +0.03729371 e 0.2482617 Incl. 29.29046 +0.79190723 -0.06242040 P 1.21 H 25.0 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 ED68 Earth MOID = 0.0017 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 4.32566 (2000.0) P Q n 0.54713558 Peri. 213.95895 -0.90479215 +0.42584345 a 1.4804920 Node 351.24365 -0.38632779 -0.82367893 e 0.3493421 Incl. 1.09892 -0.17917032 -0.37444676 P 1.80 H 28.0 G 0...

French dam to be 'world's biggest sundial' Click to Play | View Details 2009 is the Year of Astronomy, 400 years after the first observations with a telescope by famed astronomer Galileo. To mark the occasion, French engineers and scientists are converting a giant dam in the Provence region of south...

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency have called for research proposals on the data to be generated from AltiKA, a payload in Satellite with ARgos and AltiKa (SARAL). [url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci...

Dr. Lawrence Ramsey is a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been at Penn State since 1976 where he pursued research in solar like activity on stars, stellar seismology and astronomical instrumentation authoring or co-authoring over 90 papers. [...

Pedro Duque Duque (born 14 March 1963) is a Spanish astronaut and a veteran of two space missions. Read more

Geraint F. Lewis (born 14 March 1969) is a Welsh-born astrophysicist, who is best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Read more

Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet Mysterious dense bodies outside the Solar System could be the remnants of ice giants similar to Neptune that wandered too close to their suns, according to results presented this week at a meeting on exoplanets at the Royal Society in London...

Orbital elements: 2013 EP41 Earth MOID = 0.2279 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 216.65271 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42917653 Peri. 172.09192 +0.93884586 +0.32964464 a 1.7406525 Node 167.23160 -0.33541083 +0.94086257 e 0.2915813 Incl. 26.76062 -0.07789751 -0.07817953 P 2.30 H 18....

Sunspots captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. Music via an Amiga 1200

THE ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, 1820 HIGH on her speculative tower Stood Science waiting for the hour When Sol was destined to endure 'That' darkening of his radiant face Which Superstition strove to chase, Erewhile, with rites impure. Afloat beneath Italian skie...

Title: High Resolution IR Observations of the Starburst Ring in NGC 7552 -- One Ring to Rule Them All? Authors: B. R. Brandl, N. L. Martin-Hernandez, D. Schaerer, M. Rosenberg, P. P. van der Werf We observed the ring galaxy NGC 7552 with the mid-infrared (MIR) instrument VISIR at an angular resolutio...

Soyuz TM-21 was Soyuz mission, a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the Russian space station Mir. Part of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on March 14, 1995. It is of note because...

'Nuisance' data lead to surprising star-birth discovery When a batch of bright cosmic objects first appeared in maps in 2008 made with data from the South Pole Telescope, astronomers at the University of Chicago's Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics regarded it only as an unavoidable nuisa...