... Gamma Ray Earth . ... The pixelated planet above is actually our own planet Earth seen in gamma rays - the most energetic form of light. ... In visual appearance, M74 is a nearly perfect face-on spiral galaxy, about 30 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. ... A Tether in Space . ... The strange answer leads astronomers to conclude that the nucleus of the surrounding galaxy is not even visible in this image. ... Composite Crab . ... Huygens Discovers Luna Saturni . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2015 November 28 . Rosetta and Comet Outbound . ... Still, this composite of telescopic images follows the comet's progress as it moves away from the Sun beyond the orbit of Mars , from late September (left) through late November (far right). ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... Planets . ... Stars . Exoplanets . ... Most exoplanets so far discovered fall into the category of тАШhot JupitersтАЩ, these are giant planets orbiting very close to their parent star. ... Note that we have discovered so many hot Jupiters because they are the easiest type of planet to find, they are not necessarily particularly common in the galaxy. ... Subsequently several similar hot and€а fuzzy worlds have been discovered the same way, proving this that this planet is not a one-off oddball. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Risks Comparable to NEOs . ... The Increasing Rate of Discovery of Asteroids . ... Comet and Asteroid Collision Probabilities . ... Extreme albedo comets and the impact hazard (PDF Format) . ... Asteroid Impact Animations . ... Workshop on Scientific Requirements for Mitigation of Hazardous Comets and Asteroids - 2002 . ... The Spaceguard Survey Report, 1992 (PDF) . Tsunami from Asteroid/Comet Impacts . ...

... ESO Science Newsletter November 2015 . 18 Nov 2015 . ... This newsletter is a summary of recent ESO Science Announcement items. Follow the links or visit ESO Science Announcements to read more. ... An integral part of the commissioning of a new instrument at the VLT is the Science Verification ( SV ) phase. ... Joint ESO, ALMA, NAOJ, NRAO Workshop: . ... Science Operations 2015: Science Data Management . ESO/ESA Workshop, ESO Headquarters, Garching, Germany, 24тАУ27 November 2015 . ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

Program Number . ... The frequency and chemical composition of rocky planetary debris around young white dwarfs . ... SNAPshot observations of gravitational lens systems discovered via wide-field Herschel imaging . ... Verifying the White Dwarf Mass-Radius relation with Sirius B and other resolved Sirius-like systems . ... The present program aims to test the predictions of those models by determining accurate masses and radii for a sample of white dwarfs in resolved binary systems. ... Past weeks: . ...

The AstroGuide . ... AstroGuide | ... AstroGuide Listing . Login . See many more Astronomy Listings by: Category or Alphabet . Serving Greenbelt Maryland near the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Formally called the Greenbelt Astronomy Club. ... Greenbelt, MD 20768 . ... Web Site . ... Web . ... Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2016 John Huggins All Rights Reserved . dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . are trademarks of John Huggins ...

... 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 > . ...

These images from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) show the nearby spiral galaxy M101 before and after the appearance of SN 2011fe (circled, right), which was discovered August 24, 2011. At a distance of 21 million light-years, it was the nearest type Ia supernova since 1986. ... Right: The supernova was so bright that most UVOT exposures were short, so this view includes imagery from August through November 2011 to better show the galaxy. ...

3) Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... By its nature, this method is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting close to their stars. ... That means that some of the more massive extrasolar planets could actually be brown dwarfs (although the statistics of the finds suggest that most of them are not). ... Another possible difference between brown dwarfs and massive planets is how they are born. ... They would base the fundamental definition on the mode of formation: a planet is built from planetesimals. ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

SN 1999aa - A Third Supernova Discovery . Just 9 weeks after the discovery of SN 1998ey a suspect was found 1" east and 28" north from the centre of NGC 2595 on Feb.11.0166 U.T.. ... Further inspection of 6 images of NGC 2595 taken during Feb. and March 1998 showed no object at the position of the suspect. ... Beijing Astronomical Observatory recorded SN 1999aa on Feb. 11.6 and 12.6 UT, the first obervation being only 14 hours after the discovery. ... Back to Supernova 1999aa in NGC 2595 . ...

ARCSAT ID NUMBER: AS03 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Search for Short-Period Planets Orbiting Bright White Dwarfs PI: Brett Morris (UW) OBSERVER(S): Brett Morris (UW) UNCERTIFIED/UNTRAINED OBSERVERS: Two students from the University of Washington's Pre-MAP (Doug Branton + One unknown student) COLLABORATORS: Doug Branton (UW/Pre-MAP) CONTACT INFORMATION: bmmorris@uw.edu, 631-860-5116 TIME REQUESTED: Weeks ...

delay-doppler image of the Maxwell Montes region of Venus, taken using the S-Band (2380 MHz or 12.6 cm) radar transmitter and the 305m dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in June of 1988. The horizontal resolution is about 2 km. ... This delay-doppler radar image shows craters near the North pole of Mercury. The resolution of this image is about 15 km. ...

The apparent path of the Sun across the sky. ... The path of the Sun across the celestial sphere is very close to that of the planets and the moon. ... In one year, as the Earth completes a full circuit around the Sun (drawing above), the Earth-Sun line and its continuation past Earth sweep the entire plane. ... Since the Sun and Earth are in the plane of the ecliptic, the line is automatically in that plane too; if the moon is also on the same line, it must be in the plane of the ecliptic as well. ...

... of the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, . at 14 00 on Friday, November 1 , 1996 . 2-nd seminar) . ... A.V.Toporenskij (SAI) . ... 30 min.) ... Planet around PSR B0329+54" . ... News (S.B.Popov) . ... News (K.A.Postnov) . ... The secretary of the seminar - Dr. M.E.Prokhorov . Access free . ...

... AMPLE (Adaptable Minor Planet Ephemerides) is integrated software package to deal with a number of problems concerning minor planets with the aid of IBM-type personal computer. ... compiling a list of all numbered minor planets which can be seen at certain moment within specified sky region and visualization of their mutual positions; . ... As AMPLE is able to reproduce virtually any table of "the Ephemerides of Minor Planets" , it may be considered as computer version of the EMP. ...

... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset . Description: It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ...

2014 May version . ... Green D. A., 2014 , Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India, 42 , 47-58. ( .pdf , or arXiv.org:1409.0637 ) If you make use of the detailed version of the catalogue, then plaese also cite: . Green D. A., 2014, `A Catalogue of Galactic Supernova Remnants (2014 May version)' , Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, United Kingdom (available at "http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/surveys/snrs/" ). ... Copyright D. A. Green 2014. 25872nd access to this version of the catalogue. ...