SS 433 is one of the most exotic star systems observed. It is an eclipsing X-ray binary system with the primary most likely a black hole or possibly a neutron […]
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Wolf 424
Wolf 424 is a binary star system comprising two red dwarf stars at a distance of approximately 14.2 light years from the Sun. It is located in the constellation Virgo […]
25924 Douglasadams
25924 Douglasadams is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by LINEAR on February 19 2001 and given the provisional designation 2001 DA42. It was named for novelist […]
S/2004 S 6
S/2004 S 6 is the provisional designation of a dusty object seen orbiting Saturn very close to the F ring. It is not clear whether it is only a transient […]
Polydeuces (moon)
Polydeuces or Saturn XXXIV (34) is a small natural satellite of Saturn that is co-orbital with the moon Dione and librates around its trailing Lagrangian point (L5). Its diameter is […]
Gamma Andromedae
Gamma Andromedae (Gamma And γ And γ Andromedae) is the third brightest point of light in the constellation of Andromeda. It is also known by the traditional name Almach (also […]
Kappa Aquarii
Kappa Aquarii (κ Aqr κ Aquarii) is the Bayer designation for a double star in the equatorial constellation of Aquarius. It has the traditional name Situla a Latin word meaning […]
Willman 1
Willman 1 is an ultra low-luminosity dwarf galaxy or a star cluster. Willman 1 was discovered in 2004. It is named after Beth Willman of Haverford College the lead author […]
NGC 4555
NGC 4555 is a solitary elliptical galaxy about 40000 parsecs (125000 light-years) across and about 310 million light years distant. Observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory have shown it to […]
2101 Adonis
2101 Adonis was one of the first near-Earth asteroids to be discovered. It was discovered by Eugene Delporte in 1936 and named after Adonis the beautiful youth with whom the […]