... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Several tiny moons have been discovered recently, most from ground based imagery! With these discoveries, Uranus joins the jovian planets in having a number of small moons in irregular orbits. ... Two new moons of Uranus , provisionally known as Uranus XVI (S/1997 U 1) and Uranus XVII (S/1997 U 2), have been discovered. ... Caliban was discovered by Brett Gladman , Phil Nicholson, Joseph Burns, and JJ Kavelaars using the 200 inch Hale telescope ; the first images were taken 1997 Sept 6 and 7. ...

... Credit Copyright: NASA , ESA , Mark Showalter ( SETI Institute ) Explanation: Pluto's newly discovered moons now have names. ... The small moons were discovered in 2011 and 2012 by the Hubble Space Telescope in preparation for the close passing of the New Horizons spacecraft by Pluto in 2015. ... Publications with keywords: Pluto - Pluto moons . Publications with words: Pluto - Pluto moons . ... Fifth Moon Discovered Orbiting Pluto . Pluto s P4 . ... Eris: More Massive than Pluto . ...

... Pre-university education . ... Samara region . ... Scientific Publications . ... Events All-Russian Youth Scientific Reading Conference named after S. P. Korolev . ... On the 27th - 29th of January in SSAU will be held the All-Russian Youth Scientific Reading Conference named after S. P. Korolev, dedicated to the 55th anniversary of space flight by Yu. ... The conference will be held with the support of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Samara Region. ...

... Satellites of the planets are assigned a provisional designation (indicating year of discovery) by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams ( CBAT ) upon satisfactory demonstration of the existence of a new object. ... In the past, Comets were first given a provisional designation, consisting of the year and a lowercase letter indicating the order of discovery in the year (e.g., 1994a was the first comet discovered or recovered in 1994, 1994b the second, etc.) ... Names .. ...

... Send your name to the Moon on LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter): the deadline is 27 June 2008 . Send your name in search of a habitable planet on the Terrestrial Planet Finder mission, KEPLER; the deadline is 1 November 2008. On the KEPLER mission you can write some words as well. ... KEPLER is linked to International Year of Astronomy 2009. ... Tuesday, 10 June 2008 19:27 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . News | ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder . Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . Australia Telescope Compact Array . ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... In a local community event, CSIROтАЩs first six ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder) antennas have officially been given Wajarri Yamatji names. ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on August 30, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment тАЬMars is red, Earth is Blue, WeтАЩve discovered lots of new worlds, And one of them is blue too!тАЭ So IтАЩm not a poet and I definitely know it! ... The Universe [ ] . ... Posted on July 31, 2013 | ... 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. ...

... James Webb . ... The space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope, named after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. ... As a result, we're rewriting the textbooks today with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and, in 2010, the James Webb Telescope." ... The Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., manages the James Webb Space Telescope for the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters in Washington. ...

... Donate to Support Science Literacy . ... 2016 Annual Awards . The ASP is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach. ... Shop the AstroShop . ... The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) is accepting nominations for the organizationтАЩs national annual awards which recognize special achievements in astronomy research, technology, education, and public outreach.. ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science and Technical Meetings > Conferences 2016 > AGN: what's in a name . ... Science Users Information . Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... Science Data Products Forum . ... ESO Data . ... Different bands employ different methods to identify these sources but, most importantly, provide different windows on AGN physics. ... 1. the different types of AGN selected in the various bands . ...

... Subject: G.08 How are stars named? Can I name/buy one? ... The Supernova of 1987 (Supernova 1987A), one of the major astronomical events of this century, was identified with the star named SK -69 202 in the very specialized catalog, the _Deep Objective Prism Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud_, published by the Warner and Swasey Observatory. These procedures and catalogs accepted by the International Astronomical Union are the only means by which stars receive long-lasting names. ...

News archieve . ... The YSC congratulates you with New Year! ... The representatives of the YSC made a presentation there and video presentation as a workshop report as well. ... We suggest you taking part in our annual summer students workshop "Space development: theory and practice." ... 26 July, 2006, Wednesday . ... The 9th International Students Workshop "Space development: theory and practice" was carryed out by Youth Space Center (BMSTU) with the support of the Russian Federal Space Agency. ...

Amalthea . Jupiter V . Amalthea [am-al-THEE-uh] is one of Jupiter's smaller moons. ... These four images of Jupiter's moon, Amalthea, were taken by Galileo's solid state imaging system at various times between February and June 1997. ... Amalthea, whose longest dimension is approximately 247 kilometers (154 miles) across, is tidally locked so that the same side of the satellite always points towards Jupiter, similar to how the near side of our own Moon always points toward Earth. ...

JSC scientists have their names in the stars By Cathy Watson and Kendra Ceule M arilyn Lindstrom is #5281, David McKay is #6111 and Mike Zolensky is #6030. ... Several past and present Johnson Space Center employees have been among those people honored with asteroid names, including the following: Don Bogard: asteroid name `Bogard,' #4794 Bogard, Chief Scientist for Research on Astromaterials for the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) office, has worked at JSC since 1968. ...

... 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. ...

... Конференц?я "Р?внодення 2016". ... Киевский клуб любителей астрономии "Астрополис" > . ... Астрофотография (Модераторы: LifeIsGood , MaxMan ) > . Best Astronomy Photos of 2011 Named . ... 10 Апрель 2016, 03:15:19 . ... Бердянское общество любителей астрономии "ОРИОН" . ... предыдущая тема следующая тема . ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110909-best-astronomy-pictures-2011-space-photos-jupiter-aurora-borealis/?fb_ref=.Tm4RgScigOY.like&fb_source=home_multiline . ...

Present section contains two Tables: the first one lists the names of all minor planets in alphabetic order as of the last updating of the Table. ... For each minor planet the Table, apart from number represents also the name of minor planet, if any, and its principal preliminary designation. ... Apart these preliminary designations special ones are used for minor planets discovered in the course of special surveys, undertaken between 1960 and 1977. ... Survey . ... Second Trojan Survey (1973) . ...

Communications For Your Astronomy Event . ... For many years two-way radios had a feature called by many names including Motorola's Private Line, GE/Ericsson's "Channel Guard", E.F. Johnson's "Call Guard", RCA's "Quiet Channel." ... Some call it by the most correct name (probably) of Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS). ... Since most radios seem to have adopted a 1 - 38 sub-channel system we at last have a way to express what CTCSS tone we all wish to utilize with a simple number. ... Tone . ...

... StarCalc Home Page - Downloads . ... File . StarCalc (English version) . ... With minimal configuration, version 5.72 of StarCalc includes the next interfaces: "Horizon", "Horizontal coordinategrid", "Equatorial coordinate grid", "Constellation boundaries", "Constellation lines", "Constellation names", "Star proper names", "Bright Star Catalog", "Deep-sky objects", "Sun", "Moon" and "Planets and satellites" . Plugins for StarCalc . ... Interface to NGC 2000 (plugin + catalog file) . ...