... 2000 February 8 . Rings Around Beta Pictoris . ... Explanation: An unusual dust disk surrounds nearby star Beta Pictoris . ... Recent images and computer simulations indicate that the disk contains several elliptical dust rings larger than our own Solar System . The above image taken with the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered evidence of these rings as apparent knots in the edge-on disk . ... These rings might have been formed when a nearby star passed Beta Pic about 100,000 years ago. ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Virginia Explanation: What has created a large dust ring around Saturn? At over 200 times the radius of Saturn and over 50 times the radius of Saturn's expansive E ring , the newly discovered dust ring is the largest planetary ring yet imaged. ... A leading hypothesis for its origin is impact material ejected from Saturn's moon Phoebe , which orbits right through the dust ring 's middle. ... Publications with keywords: dust - Saturn - Phoebe . ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. February 9, 1999 . A Supernova Star-Field . Credit: Hubble Heritage Team ( AURA / STScI / NASA ) . Explanation: Bright stars don't last forever. ... The above picture is a composite of recent images taken over several years. The explosion originated from a bright massive star that ran out of nuclear fuel . ... About APOD > . ...

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... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Have you ever looked at pictures of Saturn's rings and noticed what look like gaps in the rings? ... Gian Domenico Cassini discovered a large gap in Saturn's rings in 1675. Later, an astronomer named Encke discovered a smaller gap near the edge of the rings. ... It was found long ago that an orbit in the Cassini Division, as the large gap is named, has a period almost exactly one-half that of one of Saturn's moons named Mimas. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...