We present a compilation of orientations of seven temples dedicated to the Phoenician goddess Astarte across the Mediterranean. The chronology of the earliest temple corresponds to the Early Bronze Age – temple of Baalat Gebal at Byblos, 2800 BCE – but the rest dating back to the Iron Age, from IX to IV BCE. We find that most temples follow a sun

We present a spectral analysis of the spectrum from the Hubble Space Telescope Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (HST/COS) of the southern VY Scl nova-like variable BB Doradus, obtained as part of a Cycle 20 HST/COS survey of accreting white dwarfs (WDs) in cataclysmic variables. BB Dor was observed with COS during an intermediate state with a low mass

Context. Research on supernovae (SNe) over the past decade has confirmed that there is a distinct class of events which are much more luminous (by 2 mag) than canonical core-collapse SNe (CCSNe). These events with visual peak magnitudes ≲-21 are called superluminous SNe (SLSNe). The mechanism that powers the light curves of SLSNe is still not well

I n the first decade of t h e 21 st cent u ry , the Egyptian - Spani sh Mission on Arc h a eoastronomy of ancient Egypt performed a detailed sta tistica l analysis of the orientation patterns of the temple s of Pharaonic Egypt , resulting in most interesting outcomes such as t h e justified proposal of seven families of astronomical orientations

The nature of warm, ionized gas outside of galaxies may illuminate several key galaxy evolutionary processes. A serendipitous observation by the MaNGA survey has revealed a large, asymmetric Hα complex with no optical counterpart that extends ≈8″ (≈6.3 kpc) beyond the effective radius of a dusty, starbursting galaxy. This Hα extension is