... were announcements and presentations of all sorts-the first image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, observations through the MilkyWay's Zone of Avoidance of heretofore unobserved galaxies, tales of planet-stripping by swollen red giants, even word of ...
... These topics give me the opportunity to introduce astronomical ideas such as the solar ecliptic, solstice and equinox, zodiac, phases of the Moon, motion of planets, MilkyWay, and precession of equinoxes. ...
... His development of this instrumentation led to The Amateur Sky Survey (TASS) in which teams of amateur astronomers around the world measure vast areas of the night sky to learn more about the bright stars of the MilkyWay. ...
... NASA's Kepler spacecraft, launched in March 2009, is a mission designed to survey a slice of the MilkyWay Galaxy to identify planets orbiting other stars. ...
... The number of Lowell's preferred place for his Planet X -- in spite of stars greatly increased as I approached the MilkyWay, the fact that they were now low in the western sky... which slowed down the blinking coverage. ...
... dome audiences can be transported to the surface of Mars, to an orbit around the potentially habitable exoplanets Kepler 62e and 62f, to a neighboring galaxy for a look back at our MilkyWay, or to the first galaxies formed nearly 13 billion years ago ...