... On September 26, a large solar coronal mass ejection smacked into planet Earth's magnetosphere producing a severe geomagnetic storm and wide spread auroras. ... Cocoon Nebula Wide Field . ... AR 1302 first came around the Sun's edge last week and is so large it can be seen without a telescope. Flying over Planet Earth . ... During 2006, a large solar flare from an Earth-sized sunspot produced a tsunami-type shock wave that was spectacular even for the Sun. ... September s Aurora . ... September . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2008 September 3 . 31 Million Miles from Planet Earth . ... Still cruising through the solar system, earlier this year the robotic spacecraft looked back to record a series of images of its home world 31 million miles (50 million kilometers) away. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Search Results for ?stellar nursery? Posted on February 21, 2013 | No Comments A new image from the European southern ObservatoryтАЩs Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy €а(VISTA) telescope reveals the glowing clouds of gas and filaments of dust surrounding hot young [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on March 2, 2016 | ... Posted on November 12, 2015 | ... Posted on July 28, 2015 | ...

My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

... Like a last gasp of breath, Sun-like stars puff away their outer layers of gas at the end of their lives. This gas floats away into space and forms beautiful and striking clouds, which are called planetary nebulae (although they have nothing to do with planets). ... Yet, astronomers looking at 100 planetary nebulae in the bulging centre of our Galaxy, the Milky Way have found that most of the bipolar planetary nebulae in this region are acting in the same, strange, way. ...

... Warped passages: Thursday 16 October 2008 . ... Catch a Falling Star: Thursday 9 October . A stronomy Ireland Colm J. Cannon Memorial lecture: " Searching for Planets Around Other Stars - From Galway " by Gregg Hallinan, at 8 pm, Monday 13 October, in the Physics Building, Trinity College Dublin. ... The techniques used to detect these planets requires the use of very sensitive and expensive equipment. ... Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:23 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... 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) ...

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. ...

... We still have a long distance to cover before we leave the Milky Way Galaxy -- tens of thousands of lightyears, as a matter of fact -- so let's stop by some interesting objects on the way. ... But we have reached the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... We don't know, but we do know that there are countless voyages left to take. To continue the virtual voyage beyond our galaxy, go to Kent Cheatham's "A Walk in the Stars" at http://www.ionet.net/~cheatham/astro/astrotour.shtml . ...

... More on 51 Peg: . The discovery of a Jupiter--mass planet in orbit around the solar--type star 51Peg has been reported by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (Geneva Observatory) on October 6th at the 9th Cambridge workshop on "cool stars, stellar systems, and the sun" held at Florence (Italy). ... Recall that the measurements of radial velocity only yield v sin i which in turn gives us M sin i. For most values of i, sin i will be greater than 0.5 and this gives a mass estimate of 0.5 Jupiter masses. ...

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... B. Vicini, A. Natta, A. Marconi, L. Testi, D. Hollenbach, B.T. Draine . 1998, A&A, in press . ... 1998, ApJ, in press . ... L. Testi, F. Palla, A. Natta . ... Francesco Palla . 1998, The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, eds. C.J. Lada and N. Kylafis, in press . ... 1998, in "The Molecular Astrophysics of Stars and Galaxies - A Volume Honouring Alexander Dalgarno", edited by T. W. Hartquist and D. A. Williams, Oxford University Press, in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

... Here is a brief outline of the current theory of the events in the early history of the solar system: . A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. ... The gas cools off enough for the metal, rock and (far enough from the forming star) ice to condense out into tiny particles. (i.e. some of the gas turns back into dust). ... Once the larger of these particles get big enough to have a nontrivial gravity, their growth accelerates. ...

Testing the Automatic Detection of Directly Imaged Exoplanets Using Wavelet Analysis Chris Merchantz Introduction · Challenges associated with direct images of planets Distinguish planets in the following way: (1) a minimum flux threshold is from speckles maxima, anddefined for the features that are identified as local (2) the "Exoplanet Recognition Using a Wavelet Analysis Technique" Fig. ... This spectrum is used as template spectrum to recognize planets in a deep image. ...

Harvest Moon . ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. Depending on the year, the Harvest Moon can fall anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after the equinox, which arrives annually on or near September 23. ... It was once common knowledge that at the vicinity of Full Moon, the Moon rises around sunset, shines all night long and sets around sunrise. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

... The first of these, of the HL Tau protoplanetary disc, revealed a striking series of concentric rings but oddly, no spirals, as one might expect if the gaps in the disc are being carved by newborn planets. In this talk I ll show how the rings in HL Tau can be beautifully and convincingly explained as being caused by protoplanets, but only when the interaction between gas and dust in the disc is accounted for. ...

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