Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Posted on June 4, 2014 | 1 Comment Once we believed we lived in an absolutely typical planetary system. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on September 15, 2011 | ... Posted on August 4, 2011 | ... 5 Comments Once exoplanets, worlds orbiting other stars, were the stuff of science fiction but now we know of literally hundreds of real alien planets circling other stars. ...

... 19.10.2006 . ... Credit: Andrea Tamanti Explanation: This cosmic portrait recorded October 9th features the lovely blue-green coma of Comet SWAN posing with spiral galaxy NGC 5005 in the northern constellation Canes Venatici . ... Not actually related to a bird, Comet SWAN ( C/2006 M4 ) was so named as it was first spotted in image data from the SWAN (Solar Wind ANisotropies) camera aboard the sun-staring SOHO spacecraft. ... Publications with keywords: comet . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

... Armagh Observatory, 5 January 2016: Armagh Observatory reports that December 2015 was much wetter than average, the wettest December on record at Armagh, that is, since records of daily precipitation began at Armagh in 1838. ... The month was slightly duller than average, with 15 of the 31 days having no recorded strong sunshine at all. ... The long-term (1838-2010) average December precipitation at Armagh is 77.44 mm and the most recent 30-year (1981-2010) average precipitation is 77.23 mm. ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 October 5 . X-Ray Cygnus A . ... Central in both pictures, the center of Cygnus A shines brightly while emission extends 300,000 light-years to either side along the same axis. Near light speed jets of atomic particles produced by a massive central black hole are believed to cause the emission. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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... Australian telescopes have helped the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) find thousands of new galaxies. ... Preliminary HST results were released today by NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute , as were the results from the Australian institutions. ... Called the Hubble Deep Field South , it complements the original Hubble Deep Field , another small patch in the northern sky. ... The Anglo-Australian Telescope has measured the distances of about 75 faint far-flung galaxies in the field. ...

... GOODS unites extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories, Spitzer , Hubble , and Chandra , ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton , and from the most powerful ground-based facilities, to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the electromagnetic spectrum. ... The space-based observations are complemented by ground-based imaging and spectroscopy, including extensive commitments of ESO and NOAO observing time. ... 2010-04-10: Deep VLA 1.4 GHz data for GOODS-North . ...

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... citations = 1930 (533 on first author papers). · h-index=25 Conferences attended Multiwavelength Views of the ISM in High-Redshift Galaxies , Santiago, Chile, June 2011 (co-chair of the LOC) Galaxies , Near and Far, Villa Aureli, Perugia, Italy, May 2011 ( invited talk ) Diffuse Relativistic Plasmas, Bangalore, India, March 2011 ( invited talk ) COSPAR 2010, Cosmic Feedback, Bremen, Germany, July 2010 ( invited talk ) Powerful Radio ...

... 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. ...

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... 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 . ...

... Astrophysics Group . ... Pulsars . ... Stars ? ... The array was designed to detect compact radio sources such as these by virtue of the fact that they would scintillate (twinkle) when observed from the Earth through the interplanetary medium ? ... One of Antony Hewish?s research students, Jocelyn Bell, was set the task of operating the telescope and inspecting the daily charts for the kind deflections in the trace which occurred when a scintillating source passed over the array. ...

... 2005: . ... Orbital period of an X-ray transient source in the system CI Cam. For the first time, the orbital motion of a compact component of the X-ray transient CI Cam has been found, the orbital period (19.41 days) and eccentricity (0.62) have been determined, masses of stars of the system have been estimated. The compact component of the system is most likely to be a white dwarf. Archive . ...

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... 17 June 2015: Giulia Savorgnan, "Galaxy vivisection: black hole and host bulge affair" . 22 April 2015: Sebastain Sanchez, "Ionized gas in the CALIFA galaxies" . ... 22 December 2014: Federico Lelli, "Starbursts and Gas Dynamics in Dwarf Galaxies" . ... 20 November 2013: Leslie Hunt & Simone Bianchi, "Herschel highlights on large-scale galactic structure and nearby galaxies" . ... 23 December 2010: Emanuele Daddi, "New insights on the nature of massive galaxies in the distant Universe" . ...

The Wind spacecraft. ... 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. ... For additional details and updates, see the home page of the "Wind" mission. Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

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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" . ...

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