Astronomy Picture of the Day . The First Explorer . ... The cylindrical 30 pound satellite was launched (above) as the fourth stage of a Jupiter-C rocket (a modified US Army Redstone ballistic missile) and achieved orbit on January 31, 1958. ... Instead, the panels show a strikingly similar system on a much larger scale - a ring around the young, Vega-like star, HR 4796A, located about 200 light-years from Earth. ... A Galactic Mushroom Cloud . ... Welcome to Planet Earth . ... First page ] Prev. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on April 2, 2014 | ... Continue Reading.. ... No Comments Astronomy is a science that knows no borders. ... 1 Comment Comets are frozen lumps of ice (often called volatiles) and rock that come from distant parts of our Solar System. ... Newer Entries . 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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... News Feed . Dull, Wet November, Much Warmer Than Average . 2015 December 7th . ... Cold, wet August, a little sunnier than average. coldest summer for 29 years . ... New space weather research grant awarded to Armagh Observatory . 2015 August 14th . ... Coldest July for 22 years, duller and wetter than average . ... Bright Fireball on 25th March 2015 . ... Sunny but Cool January, Wetter than Average . ...

... November 22, 1996 . Fliers Around the Blue Snowball Nebula . ... But now yet another mystery has come to light: what created the fast-moving gas clouds that appear around planetary nebula ? Dubbed FLIERs for Fast Low-Ionization Emission Regions, these knots of dense gas appear to have been ejected from the central star before it cast of the planetary nebula. ... In the above false-color picture of NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball Planetary Nebula , the FLIERs are featured in the image inserts. ...

Statistics of sunspot activity . The sunspot indices . ... NGDC's observations . The solar regions . ... Average annual indices . ... August . ... August, 2013 . Visual indices of solar activity by National Geophysical Data Center . ... Average . ...

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... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

... 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. ...

... Travel . ... Parkes Radio Telescope , Parkes (Australia) . Project P837, May September 2013 . ... 100-m Radio Telescope , Effelsberg (Germany) . ... Workshop H?? in Dwarf Galaxies . 15 16 July 2015, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... Conference The Periphery of Disks . 3 6 November 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 21 October 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 19 21 June 2013, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 11 November 2011, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ... 9 13 July 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia . ...

This section of AMPLE makes it possible to find all those numbered minor planets which can be seen at the given moment in certain part of the sky (e.g. covered by photographic plate or by CCD frame), to calculate their coordinates and to display their mutual positions and diurnal motions. ... If the center of the mapped sky region is situated not far from the opposition point and its angular dimensions are not too great, positions of minor planets are found with account for perturbations. ...

... 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) ...

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... Harry Teplitz, California Institute of Technology . ... Abstract . ... Carole A. Haswell, Open University . ... Binaries in the Kuiper Belt: Probes of Solar System Formation and Evolution . ... Planet formation occurs in circumstellar disks around young stars. ... Most of the targets are early-type stars, with spectral types ranging from late-B to mid-G. 7 231 . ... Star-star interactions can lead to truncation of nascent disks, disruption of binary systems and even ejection from the cluster. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2012 > Star and Planet Formation Workshop . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... On 14 May 2012 we held a one-day workshop in the ESO Auditorium with the aim of bringing the star and planet formation community from ESO-MPE-USM together. ... J. Ascenso (ESO) Star formation in giant complexes . ... C. Manara (ESO) The role of accretion in the formation of stars and planets: a VLT/X-Shooter perspective . ...

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... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... Company's History . ... ISS Russian Segment . ... News . ... Russian logistics spacecraft Progress M-04M, after two days in free flight, docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... All the dynamic operations were performed by mission control specialists under the supervision of the Technical Management (The Technical Manager is the President and Designer General of the S.P. Korolev RSC Energia V.A. Lopota). ...

... 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. ...

... Here some data observed on the 6m telescope with IFP installed in the OLD focal reducer are presented. ... Mkn 3: velocity field . ... NGC 5252: [OIII] image . ... NGC 5252 was observed 23 Feb. 1998 in the [OIII]5007 emission line with CCD TK1024 as detector. ... We observed the ionized gas velocity fields of the spiral galaxies with two purpose. ... Restored velocity field of NGC 157 in the reference frame rotating with the pattern speed overlaid on the Ha image of the galaxy . ... NGC 4100 . ...

... Sun images . ... Active areas . February : 2016 . ... The following regions with sunspots can be now observed on the Sun's surface . Group number . ... Group length (in degrees) . ... Beta . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT The following H-alpha plages without spots can be currently observed on the Sun's surface . ... Coordinates and other characteristics of active regions are issued for February 09, 2016 00:31 UT . ...