... Tonight's Sky . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Sky Guide . ... Hubble pins down age of oldest known star . ... A team of astronomers using NASAт??s Hubble Space Telescope has taken an important step closer to finding the birth certificate of a star thatт??s been around for a long time. т??We have found that this is the oldest known star with a well-determined age,т?? said Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore,...
... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Bad Astro Store . ... What's the farthest distance you can see? Looking around during the day, chances are the farthest you can see is only a few kilometers. If you are up in a tall building, you might be able to see objects as much as 100 kilometers away. ... But if you look up , you can see for about 150 million kilometers! ... That's about 20 million million million kilometers away, or a 2 followed by 19 zeroes! ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...
... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....
... NASA Sun Earth Connection Education Forum . ... Venus Transit 2004 . ... This was made possible by Johannes Kepler's understanding of the orbital behavior of celestial objects (his now famous three laws of planetary motion), careful inspection of Kepler's predictions by an English astronomer - Jeremiah Horrocks , the wisdom of Edmond Halley who not only discovered a comet but developed the first detailed plan for calculating the AU from transits of the sun, and a concept called "parallax"; . ...
... Located in the constellation of Cygnus the swan and one point of the summer triangle asterism, this star is located around 1550 light years away from Earth. ... The supernova occurred 10 billion light years away, at the time when the Universe was still young. ... Hi Zeeshan, Its difficult to determine which exact single star is the most farthest in the Universe, but astronomers using the Hubble and Spitz Telescopes have discovered galaxy MACS0647-JD, which they reckon is 13.3 billion light years...
This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1998S in NGC 3877 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. On this page you will find a list of images of Supernova 1998S in NGC 3877 . ... VSnet now has a SN1998S web page with observations and light curve. Perpignan Observatoire 's 1998S web page . ...
... Commands . Axis . ... Set . ... For example, if you specify "All" axes, you normally only affect all axes that the TCC thinks exist at the current instrument position. ... Boresight specifies the position of the object on the instrument. ... The data is read from $TCC_DATA_DIR/axelim.dat at startup, but instrument-position-related limits are modified by the SET INSTRUMENT command. ... Object returns user-specified object position and related parameters, most of which are set via the TRACK command. ...
... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...
... We have investigated the status of the EPIC thin and medium filters by performing an analysis of the optical loading in the PN offset maps to gauge variations in the optical and UV transmission of the filters. We both investigated repeated observations of single optically bright targets and performed a statistical analysis of the extent of loading versus visual magnitude at different epochs. ... DATA ANALYSIS The PN offset maps are uploaded on board at the start of each exposure. ...
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... John Stephen Young . ... These results, described in Chapters 5-8, include high-quality images of Capella and Betelgeuse, and a large number of diameter measurements of Mira variables. ... Chapter 5 describes the procedures used when observing with COAST in the infrared, illustrated by observations of the binary star Capella. ... Chapter 7 presents the results of a programme to monitor the angular diameter of the Mira variable star chi Cygni. ... Astron. ... PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995...
... Ce qui est admirable, ce n'est pas que le champ des Гїtoiles soit si vaste, c'est que l'homme l'ait mesurГї" , Гїcrivait Anatole France. ... La question reprend souvent l'image du moyen mnГїmotechnique le plus marquant, utilisГї par les vulgarisateurs pour parler de la profondeur des gouffres cosmiques : est-il vrai que nombre d'Гїtoiles visibles dans le ciel sont dГїjГ mortes ? ... La nuit risque d'Г?tre trop courte pour dГїrouler le fil d'Ariane des distances dans l'Univers ! ...
... Sidereal Times is Available as a Blog! ... David Lecther, Outreach Coordinator Bob Vanderbei Richard Gott, III On January 11, we will have our own Dr. Ken Kremer to speak on "The Space Shuttle, The Space Station, and What's Beyond for NASA." ... Credit: Ken Kremer Page 3 December 2010 Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton from historical units in which each magnitude is 2.5 times brighter than the next, and the span of all stars visible to the naked eye are 1 to 6 (1 is brightest). ...
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... STAR FIELDS Newsletter of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston Including the Bond Astronomical Club Established in 1934 In the Interest of Telescope Making & Using Vol. ... I must admit, I have always been a planetary observer/imager but I can still be wowed by looking at a deepsky object as I was when I was at the clubhouse last Friday night (March 19th). ... March Meeting Minutes . ... April 17, 18 Clubhouse Work Party Sat., ... Star parties are a great venue for recruting new members. ...