Follow-up astrometry and recoveries are made with the ANU 40 inch (1.0-m) f/8 reflector at Siding Spring Observatory (IAU code 413). ... A routine follow-up of 2003 WY153 on 2003 Dec 15 became much more than routine when a faint object with unusual motion vector was found close to the target asteroid. ... During routine astrometry with the 1.0-m to improve the orbit of the Apollo asteroid 2004 CB, the asteroid was found on March 30 to have a short tail! ... Siding Spring Survey Main Page . ...

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... Discovery s Rainbow . ... 2.09.2009 . ... Credit: NASA , Ben Cooper ( Launch Photography ) Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery began a long arc into a cloudy sky. ... On STS-128 , Discovery docked with the International Space Station Sunday evening. ... September 2009 . ... Publications with keywords: space shuttle - launch - COLBERT . Publications with words: space shuttle - launch - COLBERT . ... Station and Shuttle Transit the Sun . ...

... There is also an edge-on view of the asteroid belt here . This video was created by Scott Manley. ... View of the solar system showing the locations of all the asteroids starting in 1980. ... Notice how the pattern of discovery follows the Earth around its orbit. ... At the beginning of 2010 a new discovery pattern becomes evident, with discovery zones in a line perpendicular to the Sun-Earth vector. ... An edge-on view of the asteroids . ... Other asteroid and comet animations by Scott Manley . ...

Here we report our discovery of a band of blue luminescence (BL) in the Red Rectangle nebula. ... The spectrum of this newly discovered BL is most likely fluorescence from small neutral polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) molecules. ... If the carriers of this near-UV/blue fluorescence are PAHs, they are most likely neutral PAH molecules consisting of three to four aromatic rings such as anthracene (C14H10) and pyrene (C16H10). ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 September 2 . Discovery's Rainbow . ... Explanation: Just one minute before midnight EDT, Friday, August 28, the Space Shuttle Discovery began a long arc into a cloudy sky. ... The 13-day mission will exchange space station crew members and deliver more than 7 tons of supplies and equipment. ... About APOD | ...

... Our recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (August 29, 2014) led to revealing a highly isolated dwarf spheroidal galaxy KKs 3 situated at a distance of 2.12 0.07 Mpc from the Milky Way. The dSph galaxy locates on the southern sky (RA=02 h 24 m 44.4 s , Dec.= ... Over the last decade, about 30 dSph galaxies have been discovered inside the Local Group through systematic search in the vicinity of M31 and more that a dozen dSphs were discovered in the nearby group around M81. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Space Flight . Human Exploration . Robot Exploration . ... Originally Discovery had been set to launch on 1 November, but this was delayed when fatigue cracks were found in the structure of its External Tank. ... A little bit of trivia is that Discovery has actually made the only shuttle-era Christmas time flight to date, this was STS-103 ,€а a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999. ...

... ASTEROID’S MOONS : DISCOVERY BY RADAR . ... Moons of known asteroids have a low position ambiguity, which makes their discovery with powerful ground-based radar much easier than the discovery of new asteroids or other objects of Solar System. ... The other technique is a direct detection of radar echo from an asteroid moon. ... However, the diameter of a ground-based fully-steerable reflector is limited by 120-150 m to make it possible to perform two different functions: focusing and tracking (fig. ...

... CBET now has an M31 novae page , M33 novae page , and an M81 novae page . ... Also, see W. Pietsch's M31 (apparent) optical nova catalogue , M33 novae catalog , and M81 novae catalog Please note that I do not keep track of galactic novae . Nova M81 2016-04a? (= PNV J09560598+6900401 ), ATEL 8904 discovered 2016/04/02.876 by Kamil Hornoch and H. Kucakova . ... Nova M31 2016-03a? (= PNV J00421695+4059098 ), CBAT TOCP discovered 2016/03/01.721 by unknown . ... other extragalactic Novae from 2016 . ...