... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , UCLA , MPS,DLR,IDA - Composition: Justin Cowart Explanation: Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the Solar System's main asteroid belt , with a diameter of about 950 kilometers (590 miles). ... Two of Ceres' famous mysterious bright spots at Oxo crater and Haulani crater are near center and center right of this view. ... Bright Spots Resolved in Occator Crater on Ceres . ... Dark Craters and Bright Spots Revealed on Asteroid Ceres . ...

... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). ... Distance Radius Mass Name Orbits (000 km) (km) (kg) --------- ------- -------- ------- ------- Sun 697000 1.99e30 Jupiter Sun 778000 71492 1.90e27 Saturn Sun 1429000 60268 5.69e26 Uranus Sun 2870990 25559 8.69e25 * Neptune Sun 4504300 24764 1.02e26 * Earth Sun 149600 6378 5.98e24 Venus Sun 108200 6052 4.87e24 Mars Sun 227940 3398 6.42e23 Ganymede Jupiter 1070 2631 1.48e23 + Titan ... Extrema .. ...

Here are listed the largest , brightest and densest of the major bodies in the solar system and those with best prospects for life. ... Earth is the tiny spot between Jupiter and the Sun). This composite shows Earth and the remaining 11 large solar system objects at a scale of 100 km/pixel. ... Note : Neptune is slightly denser than Uranus. ... But even if no life exists on other bodies in our solar system, it seem to be likely that there's probably life elsewhere in our galaxy. ... Extrema .. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... 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 Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process.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 Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Exoplanets . ... Space Flight . ... Science Fiction . ... August . ... By admin August 18, 2011 Posted in: August . Artist's impressions of Kepler and the light curve of transiting planet (Image credit: NASA) . ... In 1995 we knew of only nine planets (including Pluto, how times change), but in that year the first of the extra-solar planets or exoplanets was confirmed. ... Another is one of the most Earth-like worlds yet discovered . ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... September Perseid meteors captured by the . ... Its occurrence provides astronomers with interesting new data about the hidden trails of meteoroids тАФ small bodies ranging in size from fine dust particles to objects of marble-size and larger тАФ in the solar system and their supposed sources: comets and asteroids passing through the inner solar system. ... The particular comet that created the September Perseids is unknown...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... Supernova showered Earth with radioactive debris . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The Very Large Telescope probes remains of medieval supernova . ... New detailed observations with the European Southern Observatoryт??s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the remains of a thousand-year-old supernova have revealed clues to the origins of cosmic rays. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...