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Observable comet count is 1169
Current exoplanet count is 5819
Current longitude II of the GRS is 66°
Today Monitor
Mars: January 16, 2025
Jupiter: January 10, 2026
Saturn: September 21, 2025
Uranus: November 21, 2025
Neptune: September 23, 2025
Evening: January 10, 2025 at 47.2°E
Morning: June 1, 2025 at 45.9°W
Morning: December 25, 2024 at 22.0°W
Evening: March 8, 2025 at 18.2°E
Morning: April 21, 2025 at 27.4°W
Evening: July 4, 2025 at 25.9°E
Morning: August 19, 2025 at 18.6°W
Evening: October 29, 2025 at 23.9°E
Morning: December 7, 2025 at 20.7°W
Evening: Febrary 19, 2026 at 18.1°E
Wednesday, 5 November
Friday, 5 December
given for 00:00 UT
Date | Size | Age | Angle | Phase |
---|---|---|---|---|
23 Feb 2025 | 30.61' | 24.48 | -6.502° | |
24 Feb 2025 | 31.06' | 25.48 | -6.683° | |
25 Feb 2025 | 31.54' | 26.48 | -6.463° | |
22 Mar 2025 | 30.16' | 21.97 | -6.602° | |
23 Mar 2025 | 30.54' | 22.97 | -7.220° | |
24 Mar 2025 | 31.00' | 23.97 | -7.497° | |
25 Mar 2025 | 31.50' | 24.97 | -7.380° | |
26 Mar 2025 | 32.03' | 25.97 | -6.841° | |
04 Apr 2025 | 31.86' | 5.54 | 6.674° | |
05 Apr 2025 | 31.40' | 6.54 | 7.159° | |
06 Apr 2025 | 30.97' | 7.54 | 7.233° | |
07 Apr 2025 | 30.58' | 8.54 | 6.935° | |
19 Apr 2025 | 30.14' | 20.54 | -6.609° | |
20 Apr 2025 | 30.49' | 21.54 | -7.247° | |
21 Apr 2025 | 30.91' | 22.54 | -7.602° | |
22 Apr 2025 | 31.38' | 23.54 | -7.618° | |
23 Apr 2025 | 31.89' | 24.54 | -7.248° | |
24 Apr 2025 | 32.39' | 25.54 | -6.459° | |
02 May 2025 | 32.05' | 4.19 | 6.908° | |
03 May 2025 | 31.53' | 5.19 | 7.524° | |
04 May 2025 | 31.04' | 6.19 | 7.652° | |
05 May 2025 | 30.59' | 7.19 | 7.335° | |
06 May 2025 | 30.21' | 8.19 | 6.642° | |
18 May 2025 | 30.56' | 20.19 | -6.624° | |
19 May 2025 | 30.92' | 21.19 | -6.950° | |
20 May 2025 | 31.32' | 22.19 | -7.010° | |
21 May 2025 | 31.75' | 23.19 | -6.758° | |
30 May 2025 | 32.13' | 2.87 | 6.436° | |
31 May 2025 | 31.63' | 3.87 | 7.137° | |
01 Jun 2025 | 31.12' | 4.87 | 7.336° | |
02 Jun 2025 | 30.65' | 5.87 | 7.064° | |
29 Jun 2025 | 31.11' | 3.56 | 6.528° | |
02 Oct 2025 | 30.80' | 10.17 | -6.602° | |
03 Oct 2025 | 31.28' | 11.17 | -6.712° | |
04 Oct 2025 | 31.79' | 12.17 | -6.413° | |
13 Oct 2025 | 32.01' | 21.17 | 6.426° | |
14 Oct 2025 | 31.60' | 22.17 | 7.017° | |
15 Oct 2025 | 31.20' | 23.17 | 7.219° | |
16 Oct 2025 | 30.83' | 24.17 | 7.068° | |
17 Oct 2025 | 30.51' | 25.17 | 6.617° | |
29 Oct 2025 | 30.28' | 7.48 | -6.622° | |
30 Oct 2025 | 30.70' | 8.48 | -7.213° | |
31 Oct 2025 | 31.18' | 9.48 | -7.461° | |
01 Nov 2025 | 31.71' | 10.48 | -7.298° | |
02 Nov 2025 | 32.24' | 11.48 | -6.672° | |
10 Nov 2025 | 32.23' | 19.48 | 7.097° | |
11 Nov 2025 | 31.72' | 20.48 | 7.804° | |
12 Nov 2025 | 31.23' | 21.48 | 8.024° | |
13 Nov 2025 | 30.78' | 22.48 | 7.808° | |
14 Nov 2025 | 30.39' | 23.48 | 7.230° | |
26 Nov 2025 | 30.27' | 5.72 | -6.459° | |
27 Nov 2025 | 30.63' | 6.72 | -7.095° | |
28 Nov 2025 | 31.05' | 7.72 | -7.447° | |
29 Nov 2025 | 31.52' | 8.72 | -7.439° | |
30 Nov 2025 | 32.02' | 9.72 | -7.008° | |
08 Dec 2025 | 32.44' | 17.72 | 6.680° | |
09 Dec 2025 | 31.91' | 18.72 | 7.561° | |
10 Dec 2025 | 31.38' | 19.72 | 7.916° | |
11 Dec 2025 | 30.87' | 20.72 | 7.788° | |
12 Dec 2025 | 30.43' | 21.72 | 7.247° | |
26 Dec 2025 | 31.06' | 5.93 | -6.615° | |
27 Dec 2025 | 31.43' | 6.93 | -6.624° |
Date | Size | Age | Angle | Phase |
---|---|---|---|---|
12 Jan 2025 | 31.85' | 12.07 | -6.565° | |
13 Jan 2025 | 31.60' | 13.07 | -6.448° | |
26 Jan 2025 | 30.57' | 26.07 | 6.621° | |
27 Jan 2025 | 30.96' | 27.07 | 6.622° | |
08 Feb 2025 | 31.60' | 9.48 | -6.682° | |
09 Feb 2025 | 31.36' | 10.48 | -6.624° | |
22 Feb 2025 | 30.21' | 23.48 | 6.703° | |
23 Feb 2025 | 30.61' | 24.48 | 6.800° | |
24 Feb 2025 | 31.06' | 25.48 | 6.559° | |
07 Mar 2025 | 31.74' | 6.97 | -6.762° | |
08 Mar 2025 | 31.39' | 7.97 | -6.766° | |
09 Mar 2025 | 31.05' | 8.97 | -6.404° | |
21 Mar 2025 | 29.85' | 20.97 | 6.665° | |
22 Mar 2025 | 30.16' | 21.97 | 6.852° | |
23 Mar 2025 | 30.54' | 22.97 | 6.721° | |
03 Apr 2025 | 32.33' | 4.54 | -6.682° | |
04 Apr 2025 | 31.86' | 5.54 | -6.784° | |
05 Apr 2025 | 31.40' | 6.54 | -6.493° | |
17 Apr 2025 | 29.65' | 18.54 | 6.506° | |
18 Apr 2025 | 29.86' | 19.54 | 6.754° | |
19 Apr 2025 | 30.14' | 20.54 | 6.698° | |
30 Apr 2025 | 32.98' | 2.19 | -6.438° | |
01 May 2025 | 32.55' | 3.19 | -6.675° | |
02 May 2025 | 32.05' | 4.19 | -6.485° | |
15 May 2025 | 29.78' | 17.19 | 6.605° | |
16 May 2025 | 29.99' | 18.19 | 6.587° | |
28 May 2025 | 32.97' | 0.87 | -6.528° | |
29 May 2025 | 32.60' | 1.87 | -6.460° | |
11 Jun 2025 | 29.82' | 14.87 | 6.526° | |
12 Jun 2025 | 30.02' | 15.87 | 6.530° | |
24 Jun 2025 | 32.85' | 27.87 | -6.457° | |
25 Jun 2025 | 32.68' | 28.87 | -6.502° | |
08 Jul 2025 | 29.84' | 12.56 | 6.561° | |
09 Jul 2025 | 30.07' | 13.56 | 6.600° | |
21 Jul 2025 | 32.45' | 25.56 | -6.493° | |
22 Jul 2025 | 32.38' | 26.56 | -6.624° | |
04 Aug 2025 | 29.76' | 10.20 | 6.646° | |
05 Aug 2025 | 29.99' | 11.20 | 6.748° | |
06 Aug 2025 | 30.28' | 12.20 | 6.541° | |
17 Aug 2025 | 32.23' | 23.20 | -6.553° | |
18 Aug 2025 | 32.11' | 24.20 | -6.755° | |
19 Aug 2025 | 31.94' | 25.20 | -6.550° | |
31 Aug 2025 | 29.61' | 7.75 | 6.661° | |
01 Sep 2025 | 29.78' | 8.75 | 6.848° | |
02 Sep 2025 | 30.05' | 9.75 | 6.733° | |
13 Sep 2025 | 32.46' | 20.75 | -6.508° | |
14 Sep 2025 | 32.22' | 21.75 | -6.794° | |
15 Sep 2025 | 31.95' | 22.75 | -6.665° | |
27 Sep 2025 | 29.47' | 5.17 | 6.540° | |
28 Sep 2025 | 29.56' | 6.17 | 6.805° | |
29 Sep 2025 | 29.74' | 7.17 | 6.779° | |
30 Sep 2025 | 30.01' | 8.17 | 6.453° | |
11 Oct 2025 | 32.77' | 19.17 | -6.687° | |
12 Oct 2025 | 32.41' | 20.17 | -6.652° | |
25 Oct 2025 | 29.42' | 3.48 | 6.651° | |
26 Oct 2025 | 29.52' | 4.48 | 6.681° | |
27 Oct 2025 | 29.69' | 5.48 | 6.423° | |
07 Nov 2025 | 33.37' | 16.48 | -6.472° | |
08 Nov 2025 | 33.10' | 17.48 | -6.565° | |
21 Nov 2025 | 29.39' | 0.72 | 6.513° | |
22 Nov 2025 | 29.46' | 1.72 | 6.567° | |
05 Dec 2025 | 33.44' | 14.72 | -6.511° | |
18 Dec 2025 | 29.42' | 27.72 | 6.502° | |
19 Dec 2025 | 29.48' | 28.72 | 6.570° |
Source: NASA/GSFC
NASA's Hubble Traces Hidden History of Andromeda Galaxy
January 16, 2025
A portion of the Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the width. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 2 o'clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble's sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the full image.
Source: stsci.edu/news
13 January 2025
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have identified two stars responsible for generating carbon-rich dust a mere 5000 light-years away in our own Milky Way galaxy. As the massive stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing past one another on their elongated orbits, their winds collide and produce the carbon-rich dust. For a few months every eight years, the stars form a new shell of dust that expands outward — and may eventually go on to become part of stars that form elsewhere in our galaxy.
Source: esawebb.org
Source: esawebb.org
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen in the foreground with the Washington Monument in the background, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Washington. The memorial covers four acres and includes the Stone of Hope, a granite statue of civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. carved by sculptor Lei Yixin.
Click to enlarge or show full screenFri, 17 Jan 2025 16:48 GMT
Source: www.nasa.gov
Image credit: NAOJ
2025-01-15 Exoplanets
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers scanned the atmosphere of the planet GJ1214 b located 48 light-years away in Ophiuchus. Instead of a hydrogen rich super-Earth, or a water world, the new data, in spite of many uncertainties, revealed concentrations of carbon-dioxide (CO2) comparable to the levels found in the dense CO2 atmosphere of Venus. Link to source 🔗
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Constellation | Leo Minor |
Distance | 14.92 parsec |
Magnitude | 5.38 vis. |
Mass | 0.97 xSun |
Radius | 1.24 xSun |
Temperature | 5610°K |
Known planet(s) | 1 |
Gamma Ursae Minorids
15 Jan - 25 Jan, Peak: 1/20
Radiant: Star Chart, Rating: medium
Alnair (Alp Gru) in Gru [HIP 109268]
Distance: 101 light-years, Magnitude: 1.73
Alnair is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Grus and rotates at a rate of 236 km/s, probably an ellipsoid.
Star Chart | DSS IR Image 🔗GJ 229 A (GJ 229 A ) in Lepus
Distance: 19 light-years, Magnitude: 8.1
Gliese 229 (Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a red dwarf about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus. It has 58% the mass of the sun, measures 69% solar radii and exhibits a very low projected rotation velocity of 1 km/s at its equator. Gliese 229 A has a companion, B, in a mean distance of over 35AU with an orbital period of over 10,000 days, plus a Neptune mass planet, b, in 0.97AU orbiting A once in 471 days.
Star Chart | DSS IR Image 🔗
M28 (Globular Cluster) in Sagittarius
Magnitude: 6.8
Compressed into a sphere measuring about 60 light-years in diameter, M28 orbits our galactic center about 19,000 light years away. In all of its thousands upon thousands of stars, M28 contains 18 known RR Lyrae variables and a W Virginis variable star.
Star Chart | DSS IR Image 🔗Antlia (southern), area rank: 62
Located opposite of Crater with Hydra in between, this constellation is merely made of 4th and 5th-magnitude stars which are difficult to glimpse in cities because of its low elevation in the south. Antlia is derived from vacuum pumps used in the 18th century for scientific experiments.
Star Chart153P/Ikeya-Zhang
Discovered in 2002, 153P/Ikeya-Zhang is a long-periodic comet with the longest known period (366.5 years) for returning comets. On March 18, 2002, the comet last passed perihelion and became the brightest comet since 1997 shining at 3.5 magnitudes. The comets aphelion distance is at over 100 AU away through the Kuiper Belt reaching into the innermost section of the Oort Cloud.
Ursula (Asteroid)
Semi-major: 3.12438 AU, Size: 216 km
Discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 18, 1893, in Nice. Rotating once around its axis in 16.83 hours, the asteroid has a mean mass of 8.45x1018kg and a density of 2.3g/cm³.
Himalia (moon of Jupiter)
Discovered in 1904, Himalia is the largest irregular moon of Jupiter's measuring 150 x 120 km wide. Himalia appears neutral in its gray color, like the other members of its group,
HD 23472 b (in Reticulum)
Mass: 0.02618 xJup
Radius: 0.178 xJup
SMA: 0.1162 AU
Period: 17.6671 days
Distance: 39.0341 parsec
Category: Hot Superterran
ESI: 0.326314