... Hale-Bopp and Andromeda . ... Which is closer: the comet or the galaxy? ... In its trek through the inner Solar System, Comet Hale-Bopp has passed nearly in front of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), seen on the lower left. ... Presently, for denizens of the Earth's northern hemisphere, this bright comet is certainly a lovely and inspiring sight -- visible here crowning the sky above Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on March 20. ... A comet as bright as Comet Hale-Bopp is very rare indeed. ... The Weather on Mars...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

. Home . News . Gallery . Events . Twitter . Press Releases . Links . Contact Us . Calendar . Press & Web Coverage . Previous . Next . List . Another shot t aken 30th November by John McConnell. It shows the planetary conjunction of Venus and Jupiter at their closest, with the Moon below. Friday, 2 January 2009 23:14 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . [Back To Top] .

... Jupiter without its Southern Equatorial Belt . The Southern Equatorial Belt (SEB) started to fade during the latter part of 2009 and completely disappeared around May of 2010. It is believed that bright ammonia clouds obscure the dark belt at irregular intervals. The SEB previously vanished in 2007. The belt returned around November 2010. ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

Galileo Crosses Boundary Into Jupiter's Environment . NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Space History Galileo . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

Finding Himalia, The Fifth Brightest Moon Of Jupiter . Articles | ... Himalia is the only moon other than the Galilean moons of Jupiter that is visible in an amateur size telescope. ... I normally use “The Sky” from Software Bisque for planning my observing sessions and in helping me find objects, but it only has the Galilean moons for Jupiter so I used Red Shift (version 3 at the time) which I also had on my computer. ... www.astronomy.net . ... dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE DAILY REPORT #931 PERIOD COVERED: 0800 EST Daily Status Report as of 198/1200Z. 1.0 ACTIVITIES SCHEDULED AND ACCOMPLISHED: 1.1 Completed FGS 5056 (High Speed Astrometry - A Search for Planetary Companions to Low Mass) The Fine Guidance Sensors were used to make astrometric observations of Bernard's star to look for the presence of a Jupiter sized planet in orbit around the target star from the position perturbations caused by the planet. ... Both observations were received. ...

... 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. ...

. Sydney, December 3 4, 2009 . Venue . People . Register . Program . Rationale . Home . Sorry, the deadline for registration and abstract submission was 15 November 2009 , and registration is now closed . Last updated: 25 November 2009

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. Dnepr Cluster Mission 2014 6 November 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . Baikonur Cosmodrome Yasny launch base Downloads . ... Preparations for the Dnepr-DubaiSat-1 launch are well progressing at Baikonur Cosmodrome. ...

AO 50th Address Yervant Terzian Cornell University October 2013 It was in early November 1964 that I first saw the magnificent Arecibo 300 meter radar/radio telescope. Thomas Gold, then Director of Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, had invited me to visit the observatory, then named the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory, in order for me to decide whether to accept an offer to be a research Associate at the observatory and use the telescope for radio astronomical research. ...

... Auroral Currents . ... 25b. Io Dynamo . ... Aurora from Space . ... The giant planet Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo and visible through good binoculars. ... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing)....

... 8) Why does WolfEdit crash when I fill a large area? ... Use one of the four "man pointing a gun" icons in the top left corner of the palette. ... Use the Lift Control Panel item. You can only have a control panel which faces east or west - the north or south face will appear as a lift side panel, although it will work as a control panel. Similarly, a lift side panel viewed from the east or west will appear as a control panel, but won't work as one. ... Because you used the Get Info... box. ...

... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

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