#astro ……The work encouraged many readers to study Earth and planetary sciences with its accurate depiction of celestial objects and geology."(WGSBN Bulletins Volume 4, #12)

#astro "Ao Manaka is a character in the comic/animation Asteroid in Love created by Japanese manga artist Quro. Ao and her friends enjoy Earth Science Club activities in their high school with a dream of naming an asteroid 'Ao'……

#astro How romantic! A citizen science project helps anime characters realize their dreams in the real world!

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【承認】小惑星「アオ（Ao）」命名、漫画『恋する小惑星』にちなんだアプリによる発見 news.livedoor.com/article/deta... 小惑星は『恋する小惑星』の略称にちなんだ未発見小惑星検出アプリ『COIAS』を通じて発見。「アオ（Ao）」という名前は同漫画の2人の主人公が交わした“約束” に由来しているという。

小惑星「アオ（Ao）」命名　『恋する小惑星』にちなんだアプリによる市民科学的発見

太陽系に無数に存在する「小惑星」は、一定の条件を満たすことで名前を付けることができます。命名に関するルールは比較的緩いため、フィクション作品に登場する架空の人物に由来する名称も多数あります。国際天文学

.🔭 🧪If you are interested, you can contact our director Xing Gao, who will communicate with you further, here is his email: gaoxing8888@sina.com For more details about our initiative, see: English version: xjltp.china-vo.org/tcrben.htmlxjltp.china-vo.org/tcrb.html

According to the prediction, the recurrent nova T Corona Borealis (T CrB) will outburst in the near future, and global monitoring is very necessary. We sincerely invite amateur astronomers around the world to join our initiative on monitoring T CrB, please read the initiative below.🔭 🧪

🔭🧪This is a phase plot of KH 15D (V582 Mon), which is very similar to our variable star. But our variable star has a period nearly 20 times that of KH 15D, which is very interesting and may provide new clues about planet formation. Image Credit: Aleezah Ali/University of Washington

🔭🧪 We believe it is very similar to KH 15D, which has been called as the "Rosetta Stone" for understanding planetary formation, the brightness variations may be formed by a circumbinary disk obscuring the centre binary star. This variable star has been indexed by VSX: www.aavso.org/vsx/index.ph...

Our amateur team has discovered an interesting eclipsing variable star near SH 2-241 nebula from ZTF archive data. It has a period about 830 days, more than 40% in occultation, with a bright peak at the centre of the occultation. 🔭🧪 Image Credit: DSS、PanSTARRS DR1

WNYC's Radiolab and IAU are naming asteroid 164207, Earth’s quasi-moon. Submit your favorite name now! Event Details: radiolab.org/moon-officia...www.iau.org/news/pressre...woobox.com/wc2qxd 🔭🧪

With T Coronae Borealis expected to have an outburst any day now, recurrent novae are in the news. Recently, researchers reported their investigation of a recurrent nova that brightens every year. aasnova.org/2024/05/17/s... 🔭🧪

Studying a Guest Star's Annual Appearances - AAS Nova

With T Coronae Borealis soon rising to naked-eye visibility, recurrent novae are in the news. Recurrent nova M31N 2008-12a is the subject of today's article.