... The First Image of an Extra Solar Planet . ... Credit: NaCo , VLT , ESO Explanation: It's the faint red object, not the bright white one that might be a historic find. ... Quite possibly, however, the red object is the first direct image of a planet beyond our Solar System . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet . Publications with words: extrasolar planet . ... Atmospheres Detected on Two Extrasolar Planets . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on August 20, 2014 | No Comments The good news first: a major aerospace contractor is researching how to build a reusable spaceplane that could dramatically cut the cost of accessing low Earth orbit. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on July 30, 2014 | ... Hello, IтАЩm Colin, welcoming you to Astronotes, the PlanetariumтАЩs official blog. Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

New Moons of Uranus . Brent Gladman's Home Page . ... The discovery of two probable distant satellites of Uranus was reported by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson, J. Burns and J. Kavelaars. ... This discovery was reported in the IAU Circular 6764 . ... Discovery image of S/1997 U 2 . This shows the discovery image of brighter of the two new moons of Uranus. ... This shows the discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... This shows another discovery image of faint new moons of Uranus. ... Uranus . ...

Armagh Observatory astronomers who have been using video cameras to monitor meteor activity, or shooting stars, over Armagh for the past three years, have now extended their reach to meteors on other planets as well. In work published in the European astronomy journal "Astronomy and Astrophysics", astronomer Apostolos Christou has now reported the first detected signature of a meteor shower on Mars. ... It appears to have been produced by dust from periodic comet du Toit - Hartley . ...

... Solar System . ... European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system тАФ the nearest to Earth. ... Alpha Centauri is one of the brightest stars in the southern skies and is the nearest stellar system to our Solar System тАФ only 4.3 light-years away. ... The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet [2] . ...

... 2013 April 12 . Yuri's Planet . Image Credit: ISS Expedition 30 , NASA . Explanation: On another April 12th , in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human to see planet Earth from space. ... On yet another April 12th, in 1981 NASA launched the first space shuttle . To celebrate in 2013 , consider this image from the orbiting International Space Station , a stunning view of the planet at night from low Earth orbit . ... About APOD | ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... This image is a single frame of a GREAT animation made of several images of Jupiter and its moons by Antonio Cidadao. You can actually watch the moons orbit Jupiter! ... So it surprises me that no ancient texts describe the moons of Jupiter. ... If Jupiter were painted black, the four moons would be pretty easily seen with the naked eye from a dark site. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... HST . WF/PC-1 Instrument Science Reports . ... HST Overview . Overview . ... Cycle 24 Announcement . ... Program Information . ... The effect of the spacecraft jitter on the HST Point Spread Function is analyzed, with special reference to the terminator oscillations. It is found that the jitter may substantially affect the shape of the PSF, seriously impairing the chances of accurate photometry. ... Use of high telemetry rate for proper jitter information - necessary only for "short" ( . ...

... Search . ATNF Home . About ATNF . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects . ... Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. ... The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . Forums: . ... Observation Report From Coyle 07/19/03 . ... Post Message | ... Observation report from Coyle 07/19/03 . ... The background became jet black with the bright ring just floating there in the middle. ... It looked more like a ball. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... CONTACT . ... Planned space experiments promise a considerable increase in the detections and statistical knowledge arising especially from transit and astrometric measurements over the years 2005­15, with some hundreds of terrestrial-type planets expected from transit measurements, and many thousands of Jupiter-mass planets expected from astrometric measurements. ... To request a printed copy, please contact Britt Sjoeberg (bsjoeber@eso.org) . ...

... 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. ...

... Reports . ... Space Research Institute) . Selection of the Spacecraft Constellations in Frameworks of the IACG/ISTP Campaign 2 . ... Space Based Automated Module. ... Star Pattern Identification : Application to the Presize Attitude Determination of the Auroral Spacecraft . ...

... A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System . by Bill Arnett . The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. ... T o explore the solar system offline, visit The Nine Planets Bookstore . ... O verview of the Solar System . ... U ranus . ... The Nine Planets Bookstore : explore the solar system offline . ... Copyright 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 by William A. Arnett ; last updated: 1999 May 19 . ...

Stellar astrophysics has entered a new golden age, thanks to wonderfully precise measurements being returned by NASA s Kepler mission. Kepler is a 0.9-metre space telescope that has been monitoring the brightness of more than 100,000 stars with extraordinary accuracy for more than four years. ... The mission has been spectacularly successful, with thousands of candidates reported. ... Key results include detecting gravity modes in red giant stars and characterizing stars found to host exoplanets. ...

... The bright supernova (hereafter SN) in the galaxy NGC 4527 was first sighted by S. Knight (USA) on April 13.17UT at magnitude ~14.0v. The report of the sighting was subsequently forwarded by phone to the AAVSO. ... SN 1991T. The galaxy NGC 4527 is an Sb(s)II type galaxy with an apparent Blue magnitude of 11.32 (Shapley-Ames, 1981). ... An analysis of this event utilizing visual observations by amateurs, plus a light curve is presented.. ... THE LIGHT CURVE: . ... ISN SN 1991T web page . ...

... Annual Report . ... 2011 Annual Report (pdf, 2 MB) . ... The ASP is pleased to provide a summary of our mission-based activities and events through the 2010 ASP Annual Report. ... 2009 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 2.3 MB, best for viewing online) . 2009 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 4.5 MB, best for printing) . ... 2008 Annual Report, screen resolution (pdf, 3.4 MB, best for viewing online) . 2008 Annual Report, print resolution (pdf, 5.2 MB, best for printing) . ...

PRESS-RELEASE . ... At S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia under the chairmanship of N.N. Sevastyanov, Corporation President, General Designer, took place the next session of the General Designer’s Review Board on the Russian Segment of the International Space Station (ISS). ... The Report on the status of Soyuz TMA-9 manned transport spacecraft launch processing (reporter: Yu.I.Grigoriev, RSC Energia Deputy General Designer, Director of Orbital Complex Programs); . ...

. Return to article . Martin Elvis has been with the Chandra X-ray Center since its beginning in the 1980s. For Chandra, Elvis is leading the team that has defined new software tools that enable astronomers to analyze and interpret the observatory’s detailed three- and four-dimensional images and spectra.

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