... The first part of the Astropark that most people see represents our own Solar System. The Sun and the nine main planets are laid out here, so that you can compare their distances and sizes. ... The Sun - the closest star to Earth, represented by a giant archway at the same scale as the planets beyond. ... They move in orbits around the Sun, also marked out in the Astropark. Moons - in orbit around nearly seven of the planets, but not represented in the Astropark. ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

... 2005 June 14 . Gliese 876 System Includes Large Terrestrial Planet . ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. The planet's small mass indicates that it is likely terrestrial in nature, similar in composition to the inner planets of our Solar System . ... The newly discovered terrestrial-like planet is depicted in the insert. ... About APOD | ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... This bizarrely shrunken planetary system was found by NASAтАЩs Kepler mission, hence the parent star has been named Kepler-11. ... Planetary scientist and Kepler science team member Jack Lissauer said ?These six planets are mixtures of rock and gases, possibly including water.тАЭ €аNone of these strange new worlds are likely to be home to any form of life; their surface conditions are simply too extreme. ...

Determination of mass of Jupiter and that of some minor planets from observations of minor planets moving in 2:1 commensurability with Jupiter Olga M. Ko chetova and Yulija A. Chernetenko Institute of Applied Astronomy, St. Petersburg, Russia September 19, 2000 Keywords: Jupiter 's mass , asteroid's masses , observations of minor planets Great numb er of observations of minor ... Hoffmann (1989) p ointed out the fruitfull of that approach. ... Table II. ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) offers unprecedented observing opportunities in the near- and mid-infrared for the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. ... Obser vations of the Giant Planets J. N o r w o o d ( N M S U ), J. M o s e s (S SI), L . ... Jupiter S a t ur n Uranus Neptune Ephemeral phenomena are fairly common in the atmospheres of the giant planets. ... Uranus/ Neptune spectra are from Spitzer/ IRS cour tesy of G. Or ton. ...

... 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. ...

... Search . ... Astrophysics Group . Research . ... Research and Instrumentation . ... While this seems an extraordinary endeavour, in light of what we have learnt about Solar System planets, only a handful of key ingredients are required to start characterising an exoplanet. ... The NGTS project is a partnership between the University of Cambridge, Queen?s University Belfast, University of Warwick, University of Leicester, Observatoire de Geneve, DLR (Berlin) and Universidad Catolica de Chile. ...

... Materials needed: Ъ At least 1 meter of paper tape per person, such as adding machine paper Ъ Pen or pencil each Just to review, the order of the planets and large objects going out from the Sun and their average distances are: Object Distance in kilometers Distance in AUе Mercury 58 million 0.39 Venus 108 million 0.72 Earth 150 million 1 Mars 228 million 1.52 Asteroid Belt (including Ceres г) 416 million 2.77 Jupiter 778 ... Fold the Sun to the Asteroid Belt mark and crease it. ...

... News . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Newly discovered planet in the Hyades cluster could shed light on planetary evolution . ... OPEN CLUSTERS | ... PLANET | ... Andrew Mann from the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues have discovered a planet in a nearby star cluster which could help astronomers better understand how planets form and evolve. ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . Mopra radio telescope . ... Australia Telescope Online Archive (ATOA) . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . Visiting Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ...

The Calendar of Bloody A.tecs. Living in Central Mexico from the XII century to the being of the XVI century warlike A.tecs devoted much time to sciences including astronomy. For needs of agriculture A.tecs, using the knowledge received from the forecomers, developed the exact calendar system. 52 years of the moon-and-the sun cycle formed the basis of it (something like our conception of "a century"). ... A.tecs year was divided into 18 months with 20 days each. ... Mesopotamian astronomy. ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics Struct Reference . ... More... #include < Planet.hpp > . ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting), if lighting is used and GLSL is supported. ... Shader used to draw the planet (with lighting and shadowing). ... Lazily initialize the data, using given renderer to create textures/shader. bool Planet::SharedPlanetGraphics::loadPlanetShaders . ...

Resonances in the Solar and exoplanetary systems I. I. Shevchenko Pulkovo Observatory Abstract Dynamical problems on the orbital resonances, including mean motion resonances (both two-body and three-body ones) and secular resonances, are considered in application to the dynamics of the Solar and exoplanetary systems. The analyzed systems include multiplanetary (those with two or more than two planets) systems and planetary systems of double stars. ... Circumbinary planets at the "edge of chaos". ...

... Multiwavelength Milky Way . Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun , the planets Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune , and Pluto . ... The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way . ... The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars . ... Earth's) . ...

... Multiwavelength Milky Way . Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun , the planets Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , Neptune , and Pluto . ... The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way . ... The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury , Venus , Earth and Mars . ... Earth's) . ...

Collins School Star Party - Oct. 5, 1999 Presented by the North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club (NSAAC) For more information: NSAAC: http://www.star.net/people/~nsaac 1.0 Using a telescope Close one eye (use your hand if it's easier) and look straight down into the eyepiece. ... Massive stars use up their fuel much faster - in some cases less than 100 million years. ... Jupiter _____. ... With the chart at left and using the brightest stars as a guide, see if you can find Uranus with binoculars. ...

... Fitting the observed dependence includes calculations of the polarization cross-sections averaged over particles orientation and size distribution, their normalization and the comparison of obtained dependencies with Serkowski's curve representing observational data for a chosen star. ... Variations of the polarization factors with wavelength are shown in Fig. 16 for homogeneous spheroidal particles with PF orientation. ... The distinction between prolate and oblate spheroids is also clearly seen. ...