A team of U.S. and German astrophysicists have made the first ever detection of X-rays coming from a comet. ... Following the initial detection, the team reported repeated X-ray emissions from the comet over the next 24 hours. ... One preliminary theory is that X-ray emission from the Sun was absorbed by a cloud of gaseous water molecules surrounding the nucleus of the comet, and then were re-emitted by the molecules in a process physicists call "fluorescence." ... Comets . ...

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Image credit: Michael Nolan, Arecibo Observatory. These radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2001 SN263 were obtained on 2008 Feb 12 and 13. ... Image from Feb 12 . ... First near-Earth triple asteroid discovered by Arecibo Observatory . ... was discovered this week by astronomers at the sensitive radar telescope at Cornell University?s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. ... For example, Arecibo has discovered more than half of the near-Earth binary asteroid systems discovered since 1999. ...

... June 9, 1999 . NGC 4414: A Telling Spiral . ... the Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: How far away is this galaxy? ... Spiral galaxy NGC 4414 contains many Cepheid variable stars that oscillate in a way that allows astronomers to estimate their distance. ... NGC 4414 shows many classic spiral galaxy features, including thick dust lanes , a central region rich in old red stars, and winding spiral arms glowing with young blue stars. ... About APOD > . ...

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... Space Research Institute . Main . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2011 . An automated method for mapping of vegetation cover over Russia using Earth observation data . ... The Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences . ... P.285-302. (in Russian) . ... P.103-116. (in Russian) . ... Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2010 . Main results of the experimental and theoretical research completed in 2009 ...

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The small solids. Asteroids or the small planetes . ... The comets. ... Ceneca the Young.Procuring about the nature.63 y. The comet is a celestial body of a great size, but a rare one... transparent. Sometimes there seen a core and the medium forms a kind of a tail, beard or dishevelled looks. ... The core is an ice body - conglomeration of frosted gas and dust. ... The comet state is variable: ones have the con tails, others the dust tails, and the third have both. ... Meteors and meteorites. ...