... Star Atlas . ... Gaseous ring around young star raises questions . ... Astronomers have detected a mysterious ring of carbon monoxide gas around the young star V1052 Cen, which is about 700 light-years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. ... This new finding raises more questions than it answers about the late stages of star and solar system formation. т??Why do turbulent motions not tear the ring apart?т?? ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . ... 16.01.2008 . ... Credit: MESSENGER Teams , JHU APL , NASA Explanation: Two days ago, the MESSENGER spacecraft became only the second in human history to swoop past Mercury. ... Mariner 10 was not able to photograph Mercury 's entire surface, and the images it did send back raised many questions. ... This image was taken by MESSENGER two days ago upon approach to Mercury. ... U. Based on Astronomy Picture Of the Day . Publications with keywords: Mercury - fly-by . ...

The Chandler's Wife A tailor boy went to the chandler's shop, some candles for to buy But when he got there and looked around, no chandler could he spy So then he shouted loudly out, fit to raise the dead, When he heard the sound of a * * * , right above his head.( ... See also RAPTPTAP. Tune is Lincolnshire Poacher. @bawdy filename[ CHNDWIFE play.exe RAPTPTAP RG ===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY=== ...

... A wordlwide network of amateur and professional astronomers record and time the mutual eclipses and occultations of the Galilean satellites as accurately as possible. ... Already, the acceleration of Io is evident in the data and continued monitoring through this coming season will help pin down the acceleration of the other three satellites. ... From Dr Apostolos Christou, Armagh Observatory: . ... If you want to know the observing times from your location get it by filling in this form . ...

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... 2000 July 4 . Comet LINEAR Approaches . ... Explanation: Just possibly, a new comet may become bright enough to see without binoculars later this month. Comet C/1999 S4 LINEAR is rapidly approaching both the Earth and the Sun from the outer Solar System , and should be at its brightest around 2000 July 25 in the early evening sky of northern observers. ... The above time-lapse sequence of Comet LINEAR was taken on 2000 July 2 from Arizona and shows the comet's movement over only 19 minutes. ...

Top] [Prev] [Next] . ... The recent indirect discovery of extra-solar planets around solar-type nearby stars has been considered as the answer to a long standing conjecture, even if the physical nature of these planets was completely unexpected. Indeed several space missions have been proposed during the recent years with a possible impact on the topic of exo-planets: this includes searches by photometric transit (STARS, COROT), by astrometry (GAIA) and by direct imaging in the infrared (DARWIN). ...

For circular orbits around Earth, we found . ... The distance of a satellite from the center of Earth in meters is an inconveniently big number, even before we raise it to the 3rd power. ... SQRT (25 638 838) = 5063.5 From this . ... T= 5063.5 seconds SQRT(r') 3 = 5063 sec r'SQRT=(r') . This is the practical form of Kepler's 3rd law for Earth satellites. ... International communication satellites are in the equatorial plane of the Earth and have orbits with a 24-hour period. ...

... The delightful images from the All Around Us slipcase are now in this fun, interactive format. By lifting the big, sturdy flaps, young readers will learn new words and concepts through Eric Carle's bright, beautiful images and simple phrases. A perfect companion title for Eric Carle's ABC and Opposites. Артикул: 1470_1114 Цвет: зеленый Состав: 50% вискоза, 45% полиэстер, 5% эластан Описание: стильный брючный комбинезон зеленого цвета без рукавов. ... Коллекция: Весна-лето 2016 . ...

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ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Information & tools for observers . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ...

... High-resolution Herschel spectroscopy reveals the proto-planetary disk around the young star T Tau N . ... A study led by Linda Podio ( AstroFIt fellow at the Arcetri Observatory) with Inga Kamp (Kapteyn Institute, the Netherlands), Claudio Codella (Observatory of Arcetri) and other collaborators from Grenoble, UK and USA, makes use of high-resolution spectroscopic observations with HIFI on board the Herschel space observatory to characterize the disk around the young star T Tau N . ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Moon . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... What changed our view of Chariklo is the discovery of a ring system around it, the first such feature found around a Solar System body smaller than a gas giant planet. ... Almost certainly the rings were born when a collision with a smaller asteroid blasted millions of tonnes of debris off CharikloтАЩs surface. ... A ring system detected around the Centaur (10199) Chariklo (Braga-Rigas et al.) ...

... Remember that the experience is only a sampler for the greater journeys you can take later. ... Bon Voyage! ... As we leave Earth we look back as the Space Shuttle astronauts did when they snapped this picture. http://www.nineplanets.org/earth.html . We pass the Moon in a breath's second as we pick up speed. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/planetary/moon/gal_moon_color.jpg . ... Here's Miranda, the innermost of the planet's large moons. http://www.nineplanets.org/miranda.html . ...

Next: The SAOimage Menu (options Up: Image Display in Xwindows Previous: SAOimage for remote users . ... Menu : to select an option, click any mouse button on that option. ... Quit : Select etc and quit . New image : Select etc and new . ... select etc and raise . ... Color lookup table : to change the contrast of the display hold `r' mouse button and move cursor in main window. ... Color lookup display : to display look-up table, click any mouse button on color bar. ...

A descriptor , also commonly called a file handle is an object that a program uses to read or write an open file, or open network socket, or a variety of other devices. ... The operating system enforces a limit on the number of descriptors that a program can have open at a time. ... One is a kernel limitation, depending on your operating system you will either be able to tune the number of descriptors available to higher numbers (this is frequently called FD_SETSIZE ). ...

... With enough velocity, a spacecraft can break loose from the Earth's gravity and enter an orbit around the Sun, like that of a planet. If it then orbits the Sun with the same period as the Earth--one year--it may keep a fixed position relative to Earth. ... If the distance is just right--about 4 times the distance to the Moon or 1/100 the distance to the Sun--the spacecraft, too, will need just one year to go around the Sun, and will keep its position between the Sun and the Earth. ...

Shumaker's-Levy's comet. In July 1992 the comet went in 15 thousand km near Jupiter. ... The comet was turning not around the Sun, but around Jupiter with a two-year period. During the next approaching to Jupiter in 1994 all the fragments cut into the planet’s atmosphere with the 65km/sec speed and generated the powerful disturbance of the cloudy surface. The falling was predicted by the astronomers and was observed from the Earth and from the Space. ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...