... Exoplanets . ... Artists impression of the blue exoplanet. ... This exoplanet is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, the fox, a faint pattern inside the Summer Triangle.ТљТљ This planet is a not too distant 63 light years away so has been studied by space-based telescopes.Тљ Data collected from Hubbleт??s Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) when this planet moved behind its star showed that in the shadow of the star the light reflected from HD 189733b reduced into the blue part of the spectrum. ...

... Future Lander, the land of Blue Dreams. ... Are you ready to explore the open space? to discover new worlds? to be a peacemaker and stop the war? to contact with new civilizations? to decipher ancient texts? to find out any artifacts of lost civilization? if you are than join our new project " Future Lander" Ignition . ... Objective: Send us your personal files, names of yours spaceships. ... Connection . ... Our first planet is UPSILON . ... To receive data from the probe landed on the planet...

... Comet Hyakutake's Closest Approach . ... Comet Hyakutake's Past and Future . ... The above false-color picture of Comet Hyakutake taken just two days ago shows its rapidly developing tail. The comet now has a substantial coma with a bright center, lending it a dramatic eye-like appearance. ... Near Comet Hyakutake's Nucleus . ... This March 19th false-color picture of Comet Hyakutake from one of the most sophisticated ground based telescopes captures the area surrounding the comet's nucleus. ...

... Current . Missions . ... Data . ... Future Missions and . ... Missions Office . ... Events . ... PLANET members have access to Dutch, South African, and Australian telescopes which are widely separated in longitude, giving the possibility of nearly continuous monitoring. ... The PLANET collaboration has nearly completed the data reduction of the 1995 campaign, during which a binary event was found. A preliminary on-line reduction facility was added in 1996 at the Dutch/ESO 0.9m telescope. ...

... August 14, 1995 . Mercury: Closest Planet to the Sun . ... Explanation: This picture was compiled from images taken by the NASA spacecraft Mariner 10 which flew by the planet three times in 1974. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun , the second hottest planet (Venus gets hotter), and the second smallest planet (Pluto is smaller). Mercury rotates so slowly that one day there - "day" meaning the normal time it takes from sunset to sunset - lasts 176 days on Earth . ...

... 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...

With this knowledge of orbits, we are ready to plan a trip to Mars. ... The spacecraft will already have the 107,000 kilometers per hour (66,500 miles per hour) speed of Earth, whereas Mars moves at only 86,900 kilometers per hour (53,900 miles per hour). ... A speed of about 42,000 kilometers per hour will be enough to escape the Earth's gravity and, when added to the Earth's orbital speed around the Sun, put the spacecraft on a Hohmann transfer orbit to the Red Planet. ... 1,570,000 . ... Earth . ...