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Variable Star Observations in Database:

33,153,828 and Counting ...
Last Observation Received:

3 min 57 sec ago by EHEA - Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein (DE)

V1687 CYG   May 21.9969   7.287B   

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Small telescopes discovered styrofoam-density exoplanet orbiting a bright star

A team from the KELT collaboration have discovered an exoplanet that is highly inflated, so that while it's only a fifth as massive as Jupiter, it is nearly 40 percent larger, making it about as dense as Styrofoam. The planet is orbiting the V = 8 Subgiant HD 93396 in the southern hemisphere.

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Submitted by stellakafka on Wed, 05/17/2017 - 11:57

New multi-wavelength images of the Crab Nebula

Optical, x-ray and radio images combined, created a gorgeous montage of this bright Supernova which was first observed by Chinese astronomers in 1054.

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Submitted by stellakafka on Wed, 05/10/2017 - 14:21

Safe Sunspot Observing

A great article by our President, Kristine Larsen, on safe observing of the Sun.

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Submitted by stellakafka on Fri, 04/28/2017 - 09:53

Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022

In 2022, a pair of stars will merge and explode, becoming one of the brightest objects in the sky for a short period. The relevant peer-reviewed paper appeared on arXiv last week (https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05502).

Submitted by stellakafka on Tue, 04/25/2017 - 09:27

Secrets of a jet: what we learned from a supermassive black hole

The nearby, giant radio galaxy M87 hosts a supermassive black hole and is well-known for its bright jet dominating the spectrum over ten orders of magnitude in frequency. Due to its proximity, jet prominence, and the large black hole mass, M87 is the best laboratory for investigating the formation, acceleration, and collimation of relativistic jets. 

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Submitted by stellakafka on Thu, 04/20/2017 - 11:14

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