Compendium
Pluto
Pluto is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. From the time of its discovery in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh until 2006, Pluto was considered the Solar System's ninth planet; now recognised as the largest member of a distinct region called the Kuiper belt…
Korshunov, Yuri Petrovich (1933-2002)
— Yuri P. Korshunov was born on 22 September 1933 in Chernorechka Village near Novosibirsk. The family soon moved to Novosibirsk. His mother's ancestors were migrants from the Volga region, his father's ones were from the Samara region. Korshunov's first…
Grumm-Grshimailo, Grigorii Efimovich (1860-1936)
— A great contribution to Russian and world entomology was made by Grigorii Efimovich Grumm-Grshimailo, a prominent lepidopterist, traveller, geographer and ethnographer. He was born in St. Petersburg, and his interest in entomology appeared when he was…
Godman, Frederick DuCane (1834-1919)
— Frederick DuCane Godman was one of the great naturalists in the mid-Victorian epoch. As a boy he appears to have been delicate, and, in fact, was removed from Eton at an early age for this reason. Yet he lived to complete his eighty-fifth year, and enjoyed…
Fruhstorfer, Hans (1866-1922)
— Hans Fruhstorfer was born in Passau, Germany on 7 March 1866. He was a man of genial disposition and of untiring energy and his boundless entomological enthusiasm was devoted almost entirely to the butterflies. He had (during the beginning of the last…
Ring Nebula [M 57]
— The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring Nebula (M 57). In this October 1998 image, the telescope has looked down a barrel of gas cast off by a dying star thousands of years…
Retina Nebula [IC 4406]
— A dying star, IC 4406, dubbed the 'Retina Nebula' is revealed in this month's Hubble Heritage image. Like many other so-called planetary nebulae, IC 4406 exhibits a high degree of symmetry…
NGC 4414
— In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. An international team of astronomers, led by Dr Wendy Freedman of the Observatories of the Carnegie…
NGC 3132
— NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star, is known to amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere as the 'Eight-Burst' or the 'Southern Ring' Nebula…