... The Helix Nebula from Blanco and Hubble . ... How did a star create the Helix nebula? ... The Tarantula Nebula is a giant emission nebula within our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. ... The center of the Andromeda galaxy is beautiful but strange. ... In the center of a swirling whirlpool of hot gas is likely a beast that has never been seen directly: a black hole. ... As a present to APOD readers, digital imager Mattias Malmer offers a very high resolution view of big beautiful Saturn....

... Planets . ... The planets were found using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6m telescope at ESOтАЩs La Silla Observatory. ... A planet in orbit around a star causes the star to regularly move towards and away from observers on Earth. ... One newly discovered planet, HD 85512 b, is best hope found so far for a habitable exoplanet. ... The HARPS team so far have found that about 40% of stars similar to own Sun have at least one planet smaller than Saturn (which is 95 times more massive than Earth). ...

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... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... 2008 November 17 . HR 8799: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System . ... Explanation: How common are planetary systems like our own Solar System? In the twelve years previous to 2008, over 300 candidate planetary systems have been found orbiting nearby stars. ... Although the HR 8799 planetary system has significant differences with our Solar System, it is a clear demonstration that complex planetary systems exist, systems that could conceivable contain an Earth-like planet . ... About APOD | ...

... General information . ... Staff . Research staff . ... Information . ... Historical highlights . Historical research . ... This process is thought to occur in circumstellar disks of gas and dust around young stars on rather short timescales : infrared surveys show that the number of low mass stars with disks drops dramatically for stars older than 10 Myr, suggesting that in order to form large solids before the disk disperses, the growth process has to take place within a few million years. ...

... The Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is a conspicuous object in the night sky with a prominent place in ancient mythology . ... The stars in the Pleiades are thought to have formed together around 100 million years ago, making them 1/50th the age of our sun, and they lie some 130 parsecs (425 light years ) away. ... Data for these stars are listed in a table below. ... Yes . ... WEBDA Pleiades cluster data . ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster (2007 November 18) ...

... Abstract . ... The Ages of Globular Clusters and the Population II Distance Scale . ... HST/FGS Astrometric Search for Young Planets Around Beta Pic and AU Mic . ... Luminous and dark matter in disk galaxies from strong lensing and stellar kinematics . ... WFPC2 Imaging of Fomalhaut b: Determining its orbit and testing for H-alpha emission . ... Globular clusters are the oldest structures within the Milky Way that are directly accessible to observation. ... Past weeks: . ...

... For a timeline of the exploration of the magnetic environment of the Earth, Sun and Planets, see here . ... Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) builds the first astronomical telescope and observes for the first time craters on the Moon, satellites around Jupiter, and the way Venus goes through phases like the Moon (crescent, etc.) ... 17 December--First successful flight by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. ... 16 March--Goddard launches his first liquid-fuel rocket. ...

... This artist's impression shows the remarkable planetary system around the Sun-like star HD 10180 five planets and evidence for two more. ... Richest Planetary System Discovered . ... This remarkable discovery also highlights the fact that we are now entering a new era in exoplanet research: the study of complex planetary systems and not just of individual planets. ... The newly discovered system of planets around HD 10180 is unique in several respects. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

... About ATNF overview . ... Governance overview . Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Visitor list . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... What is a pulsar? ... Group . ... Parkes Pulsar Observing Wiki . ... Pulsar Groups . ... Main / . ... Nov 1, 2010 - Jan 31, 2011 . ... Dec 8 - 17, 2009 . ... Dec 13 - 23, 2006 . ... Dec 3, 2006 - Jan 5, 2007 . ... Aug 10 - Dec 7, 2006 . ... Dec 31, 2005 - Feb 1, 2006 . ...

... Science Activities > PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members > Thesis Topic: The dawn of planets: structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks with ALMA . ... ALMA . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... At ESO we have primary responsibility for the determination of the stellar and star-disk interaction properties using VLT/XShooter spectroscopy and for the study of the dust properties in protoplanetary disks from observations at submm and radio wavelengths with ALMA and the VLA. ...

Talk . Date of Talk . ... The Cosmic Evolution of Neutral Atomic Hydrogen Gas" . ... Power Point PDF . ... University of Sydney talk . ... Measuring the Gas in Galaxies in the Distant Past" . ... Talk at 'Galaxy Metabolism: Galaxy Evolution Near and Far' conference . ... Neutral Hydrogen Gas in Galaxies at Moderate Redshifts: Current and Future Observations" . ... Neutral Hydrogen Gas in Abell 370, a Galaxy Cluster at z = 0.37" . ... Neutral Hydrogen Gas in Star Forming Galaxies at z=0.24" . ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

Mercury - is the nearest to the Sun. Ellusive planet. ... They had several names for this star: Set and Gor (ant. ... The same surface spot with many craters, some of which has the systems of light beams only dark spots, like the Moon seas were considerably less. ... Further was the period of intensive bombing Mercury by the remains of before planet’s swarm (planetozimalies), when the ponds were founded for example Colories (diameter - 1300km) as well as craters like Copernic crater in the Moon. ...

... PUBLIC LECTURE - APRIL 12, 2016 . New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto and Planet X . ... Dr. Green will talk about "New Discoveries in the Outer Solar System: Ceres, Pluto, and Planet X". ... Beginning in 1992 planetary astronomers began to find Pluto like objects beyond the orbit of Neptune showing us that Pluto was a member of an entirely new family of objects we now call the Kuiper Belt. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

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... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

THE RELATIVE MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER ON NOVEMBER 2015 HAS MADE Wnov. = 37.1, 63.2 (new) THAT GIVES FOR 75 MONTHS (2015, APRIL) DEVELOPMENT CURRENT 24 CYCLE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY THE SMOOTHED MONTHLY MEAN SUNSPOT NUMBER W*may = 45.6; 76.0 - in new system; W*apr. = 49.3; 78.9 - in new system; - On July 1, 2015 Centre in Brussels moved to a new system of cal- culation the relative number of sunspots and practically all of the values were replaced throughout the numbered series of Wolf numbers (see link). ...