... 2010 February 16 . Dark Shuttle Approaching . Credit: Expedition 22 Crew, NASA . ... Astronauts on board the International Space Station first saw it far in the distance. ... Finally, at just past 11 pm ( CST ) last Tuesday, the object, revealed to be the Space Shuttle Endeavour , docked as expected with the Earth-orbiting space station. Pictured above , Endeavour was imaged near Earth's horizon as it approached, where several layers of the Earth's atmosphere were visible. ... About APOD | ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Solar System . ... Posted on March 1, 2016 | No Comments See you later February, youтАЩve been a wonderful month, but now it is time to welcome March. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on October 20, 2015 | No Comments New HorizonтАЩs arrival at Pluto this year, after a nine year-long traverse through the Solar System has revealed many new things about this little icy planet. ... 11 Comments Our Solar System is vast. ...

... Consequently closest to Earth, at a distance of only 33 light-minutes and 2.65 light-hours respectively, both were good targets for telescopic observers. Pacman and Hartley . ... It may become a naked-eye comet, just visible in clear, dark skies. Aurora Over Alaska . ... Are those green clouds or aurora? Photographed above two weeks ago, puffy green aurora help the Moon illuminate the serene Willow Lake and the snowy Wrangell and Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska, USA. ...

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... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

... Small asteroid to whiz past Earth safely . ... The small near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA 14 will pass close to Earth on February 15, so close that it will pass inside the ring of geosynchronous weather and communications satellites. ... Asteroid 2012 DA 14 will be closest to Earth on February 15 at about 2:24 p.m. EST, when it will be at a distance of about 17,200 miles (27,700 kilometers) above Earth's surface. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...