Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... Credit Copyright: Ball Aerospace, The Kepler Mission , NASA/Ames Research Center Explanation: Observational astronomy has recently provided evidence of the existence of massive Jupiter-sized planets orbiting distant suns, protoplanetary disks of gas and dust surrounding newly formed stars, and planetary bodies orbiting exotic stellar corpses known as pulsars . ... Are there nearby solar systems with Earth-sized planets as well? ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... These other worlds are the moons of our Solar System , of which there are approximately 170 in orbit around our planets.Some of these moons are very interesting, and have diverse and unique features, very different to our barren, heavily cratered Moon .Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system has the most moons of any planet with known 64 moons in orbit.The four ... Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System thought to have oceans located underneath its icy surface.( ...

Minsk bibliography on light scattering . Search the database . By default the search will be made in all sections and one will get a list of references where either paper title, author or journal name contains the keyword. ... Enter a keyword: . ... Sort by first author name Sort by date (oldest first) . ... c) 1990,2001 Victor Babenko (Bibliography compiling) . c) 2001 Serge Beletsky (Design & Programming) . ... Last updated: 2001/10/30 ...

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As the Universe expands, gravity pulls on the Universe, and slows the expansion down over time. As we look t