Asteroid 3122 Florence Earth Flyby
Potentially hazardous asteroid 3122 (1981 ET 3) Florence (named after Florence Nightingale) was discovered back in March 1981 by American astronomer Schelte Bus at the Siding Spring […]
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New Comet ASAS-SN1 Discovered
Discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) on 19th July, 2017, Comet C/2017 O1 was shining at magnitude 15 in Cetus. The comet […]
Catch Comet Johnson while you can
Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson is visible throughout May as it moves from Hercules in to Bootes all the time picking up relative speed across the night sky. […]
650m Asteroid 2014 JO25 close approach to Earth
Discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey as part of NASA’s NEO (Near Earth Object) observations program back in May 2014, asteroid 2014 JO25 measures 650 meters […]
Comet C/2015 ER61 PanSTARRS in Outburst
Comet PanSTARRS (C/2015 ER61) has just outburst from magnitude 7.4 to 6.5 (estimated) over the night of 04-05 April. This takes the comet within easy range of standard […]
Comet Lovejoy brightens considerably
Well we did say that Terry Lovejoy’s comets are always ones to watch out for and we weren’t wrong. Comet C/2017 E4 Lovejoy discovered earlier in the […]
Comet 41P/Tuttle passes the Owl Nebula
On Tuesday 21 March, Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak passed close to the Owl Nebula (M97) and the Surfboard Galaxy (M108). The above image taken by Lee Phillips shows […]
Terry Lovejoy discovers comet C/2017 E4
On March 09, Terry Lovejoy, an amateur astronomer from Thornlands, Queensland Australia discovered a new comet with his Celestron C14 telescope and QHY9 CCD camera. This […]
Comet 41P and NGC 3198
This spectacular image of Comet 41P passing by spiral galaxy NGC 3198 was taken by Chris Schur, Payson, AZ on 14 March, 2017. This close […]
Comet 41P ready and well placed
Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak now resides in the constellation of Leo already 30 degrees above the horizon shortly after sunset. Brightening rapidly and already about to pass […]