... Credit Copyright: ESA / Hubble NASA Explanation: Does the closest star to our Sun have planets? ... The closest star, Proxima Centauri, is the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri star system. ... The brightest star in the Alpha Centauri system is quite similar to our Sun, has been known as long as recorded history, and is the third brightest star in the night sky. The Alpha Centauri system is primarily visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere . ... Alpha Centauri: The Closest Star System . ...

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... 2016 January 18 . Proxima Centauri: The Closest Star . Image Credit: ESA / Hubble NASA . Explanation: Does the closest star to our Sun have planets? ... The closest star, Proxima Centauri , is the nearest member of the Alpha Centauri star system . ... The brightest star in the Alpha Centauri system is quite similar to our Sun, has been known as long as recorded history, and is the third brightest star in the night sky. ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices . ...

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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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Armagh, 2nd May 2002. Saturn and Mars are at the top left, Venus is the very bright object and Mercury appears through the clouds. ... All five planets visible to ancient astronomers can now be seen in alignment in the western sky. ... Next is Venus, the brightest planet or "Evening Star", followed by Mars, a much fainter red planet, then Saturn (near the red star Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus), and finally, slightly higher in the sky, the largest planet Jupiter. ...

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... The European HST Archive has been moved to ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre ( ESAC ), Spain, where most of ESA's Space Science Archives are located and operated from. ... The Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), jointly operated by ESA and the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) was, until the end of 2010, the European HST science facility, supporting the European astronomy community in exploiting the research opportunities provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. ...

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... STScI-PRC99-27 A CLOSER ENCOUNTER WITH MARS Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. ... In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. ... Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. ...

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Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Sun . ... Stars . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 3, 2011 | 9 Comments To observers on Earth, the great bull of Taurus has a fiery red eye. This is Aldebaran, an old red giant star which dwarfs our Sun. ... Continue Reading.. ... Posted on December 3, 2010 | ... No Comments Imagine that once the Sun sets, rather than a dark sky sprinkled with a few thousand dim stars, we had a sky blazing with ten thousand or so stars blazing [ ] . ...

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... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... It's semi-common knowledge that stars twinkle and planets don't. By semi-common, I mean that a lot of folks know that, but I also mean it isn't strictly true. Stars twinkle because we see them from the bottom of a sea of air. ... These small bundles of air act like little lenses, bending light as it passes through them. ... What we see is the light from the star flickering. ...

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home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Following the Martian Coastline . ... It seems scientists and laypeople alike have wondered for quite a long time whether or not water exists on Mars. ... A second reason we should determine the sites of ancient Martian seas is that if water once existed on Mars, it is possible that conditions for life obtained on the planet in the past and possibly even persist into the present. ...

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... Research . ... GPI Data Pipeline . ... GPI . ... My research focuses on high contrast imaging of circumstellar material: disks, envelopes, jets, and substellar companions. ... The second, harder challenge is achieving sufficiently high contrast: scattered light from circumstellar dust is faint, usually less than a percent of the total flux, sometimes far less. ... In addition to planet detection, GPI will also feature a polarimetric imaging mode for studies of circumstellar dust disks. ...

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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" . ...

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B?rbel Koribalski (ATNF) + HIPASS and ZOA teams . The HI properties shown below have been measured with the miriad program mbspect assuming a point source model (FWHM = 15.5 arcmin). About 100 sources, particularly the nearby galaxies, are extended and will be re-measured asap. ... Displayed here are the HI peak fluxes of all sources up to 0.7 Jy/beam (bins are 10 mJy/beam). ... Displayed here are the HI systemic velocities of all sources from -300 to +8000 km/s (bins are 100 km/s). ...

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. Go Here for Hubble Ultra Deep Field . ___________________________________________________________________ The Electronic Universe Project e-mail: nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

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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. ...

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... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

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... Research . ... Contact . The Terra Hunting Experiment (Official website) . Project Share-site (members only) . ... Terra Hunting Experiment at the Isaac Newton Telescope . ... Please follow the links on this page to find out the latest information on the project. I am the Project Manager and Chief Systems Engineer on THE@INT, so please contact me if you would like any further information. ...

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... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

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