... Venus and Jupiter at Dawn . ... On Monday morning, Venus and Jupiter gathered close in dawn skies, for some separated by about half the width of a full moon. ... Reaching the comet.. ... Taken on August 12, near the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower the exposure also captures a bright and colorful perseid streak above the shady tree in the foreground. ... Big, bright, and beautiful, a Full Moon near perigee, the closest point in its elliptical orbit around our fair planet, rose on August 10. ...

... August 14, 1995 . Mercury: Closest Planet to the Sun . ... Explanation: This picture was compiled from images taken by the NASA spacecraft Mariner 10 which flew by the planet three times in 1974. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun , the second hottest planet (Venus gets hotter), and the second smallest planet (Pluto is smaller). Mercury rotates so slowly that one day there - "day" meaning the normal time it takes from sunset to sunset - lasts 176 days on Earth . ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on January 19, 2012 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 1 Comment A new image of the Omega Nebula reveals amazing detail in a cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars.€а Captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the [ ] . ... Welcome to our annual guide to what the Universe has waiting [ ] . ... The furthest you can travel from home across the [ ] . ... This local school has its own observatory and astronomy club for the students [ ] . ...

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... The package includes a new ``hybrid'' symplectic integrator capable of handling close encounters, described at the conference: The Impact of Modern Dynamics in Astronomy , Namur, Belgium (Chambers 1998). ... NRC Research Associate, NASA/Ames Research Center , Moffett Field CA, USA, planetary accretion, formation of the asteroid belt and extra-solar planets. ... G.Laughlin and J.E.Chambers (2002) Astronomical Journal, , in press. ... American Astron. ... Home page of planet hunters Marcy and Butler ....

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... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

... NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a long-sought population of comets dwelling at the icy fringe of the solar system . The observation, which is the astronomical equivalent to finding the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, bolsters proof for a primordial comet reservoir just beyond Neptune , currently the farthest planet from the Sun . ... The comet-disk lies just beyond Neptune and might stretch 500 times farther from the Sun than Earth . ... Comet Introduction Kuiper Belt Objects . ...

Pulkovo NEO Page . ... The main publications are: the Minor Planet Circulars, containing astrometric observations, orbits, ephemerides, new numberings and namings of asteroids and comets; the Minor Planet Electronic Circulars, supplying information on unusual minor planets (including NEOs) and new discoveries. http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov . ... Plenty of information on all NEAs, including their observations at numerous world observatories. http://spaceguard.iasf-roma.inaf.it/ . ...

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The basic problems of the Laboratory are connected with researches of dynamics of minor planets and comets. ... THE ORBIT IMPROVEMENT of minor planets from optical and radar observations, . the utilization of minor planet observations for THE DETERMINATION OF ORIENTATION OF STAR CATALOGUES and DETERMINATION OF MASSES OF MINOR PLANETS BY DYNAMICAL METHOD, . THE ESTIMATION OF COLLISION PROBABILITY of minor planets with other bodies and with each other, . ...

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. ...

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... In addition to the planets and their satellites the solar system contains a large number of smaller but interesting objects. T here are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ones. ... There are also some asteroids whose orbits carry them closer to the Sun than the Earth (Aten, Icarus, Hephaistos). Most comets have highly elliptical orbits which spend most of their time in the outer reaches of the solar system with only brief passages close to the Sun. ...

... 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) ...

... Below is a preliminary schedule for the meeting "Planets Beyond the Solar System and the Next Generation of Space Missions," to be held at STScI in Baltimore on October 16, 17, and 18, 1996. ... A workshop to bring together scientists searching for extrasolar planets with those planning a new generation of space instrumentation. ... New programs for the detection and study of planets (interferometry, photometry, microlensing) . ... K. Sahu, STScI: Detecting planets with microlensing . ...

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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! ...