Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

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... For a long time we've known that planets form and live around stars. ... When a star is born, any leftover gas and dust forms a disc around it, similar to Saturn's rings. Within this disc, small dust grains made of rock sometimes form. ... Now, for the first time ever astronomers have spotted solid grains in the gassy disc around a 'brown dwarf' an object that is neither a planet nor a star. ... Astronomers didn't expect to find these solid grains around brown dwarfs for a number of reasons. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Star Party on Planet Earth . ... 4.04.2009 . ... Credit Copyright: Babak Tafreshi ( TWAN ) Explanation: As twilight sweeps around planet Earth tonight (April 4), many amateur astronomers will set up their telescopes for a 24-hour global star party. The planetwide star party is part of 100 Hours of Astronomy (100HA) , a project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... April . ... April 2009 . ... Publications with keywords: telescope - IYA2009 . ...

... ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... ASKAP Home . ... On 17 November 2008, members of ASKAIC visited the Parkes Testbed Facility , where ASKAP's prototype systems are tested. Dr Carole Jackson's presentation to ASKAIC members, made during the visit to Parkes, is available here: . ASKAP Update - November 2008 [1.3MB PDF file] . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Research Astronomer Stefano Bagnulo has been awarded the position of research associate of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics for his research in planetary science carried out also with Italian collaborators, and Research Technician James Finnegan has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the USA-based Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). ... Prakash Atreya came to Armagh from Nepal...

... November 22, 1996 . Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula . ... But now yet another mystery has come to light: what created the fast-moving gas clouds that appear around planetary nebula ? Dubbed FLIERs for Fast Low-Ionization Emission Regions, these knots of dense gas appear to have been ejected from the central star before it cast of the planetary nebula. ... In the above false-color picture of NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula , the FLIERs are featured in the image inserts. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

Stellarium 0.12.3 . ... Classes . ... SpaceShipObserver Class Reference . An observer which moves from from one position to another one and/or from one planet to another one. ... SpaceShipObserver (const StelLocation &startLoc, const StelLocation &target, double transitSeconds=1.f) . ... Get whether the life of this observer is over, and therefore that it should be changed to the next one provided by the getNextObserver() method. ... Get the next observer to use once the life of this one is over. ...

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