... Spiral Eddies On Planet Earth . ... Credit: STS 41G Crew , NASA Explanation: Can you identify this stellar nebula ? How many light-years from Earth did you say? ... Imaged by the Challenger space shuttle crew during the STS 41G mission this eddy is dramatically visible due to the low sun angle and strong reflection of sunlight. ... Publications with keywords: Earth - ocean - space shuttle . Publications with words: Earth - ocean - space shuttle . ... Pangea Ultima: Earth in 250 Million Years . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. October 20, 1997 . Spiral Eddies On Planet Earth . Credit: STS 41G Crew , NASA . ... Looking like a twisting cloud of gas and dust between the stars this wispy nebulosity is actually close by - a spiral eddy formed near the North Atlantic Gulf Stream off the East coast of the US. ... About APOD > . ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

... Armagh Planetarium . ... Universe . ... Posted on October 28, 2013 | ... Continue Reading.. ... 3 Comments New research and findings are coming to light suggesting that that we Earthlings might just all really be descended from Martians instead of€а that fell down to Earth on a [ ] . ... Posted on September 27, 2013 | ... 6 Comments So, last year I compiled a top 10 list of the best Space/Astronomy gifts which you can view by clicking here.€а I was so looking forward to receiving my Sheldon [ ] . ...

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... 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 . ...

... 2000 October 28 . Moonrise, Planet Earth . Credit: STS-35 Crew, NASA . ... In the foreground, towering clouds of condensing water vapor mark the extent of the troposphere, the lowest layer of the planet's life-sustaining atmosphere . ... Moon and clouds are strong visual elements of many well known portraits of planet Earth , including Ansel Adams' famous "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" , photographed in 1941. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Publications of the ASP (PASP) . ... The Universe in the Classroom . ... Astronomy Beat . ... Mercury Magazine Contents and Select Excerpts . ... September/October 2006 . ... Only two planets have orbits that carry them between Earth and the Sun, and Mercury?s occasional passages across the Sun?s face have punctuated critical times in the evolution of our knowledge of the Universe. ... Sky Events, Richard Talcott . ...

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... Warped passages: Thursday 16 October 2008 . ... Catch a Falling Star: Thursday 9 October . A stronomy Ireland Colm J. Cannon Memorial lecture: " Searching for Planets Around Other Stars - From Galway " by Gregg Hallinan, at 8 pm, Monday 13 October, in the Physics Building, Trinity College Dublin. ... The techniques used to detect these planets requires the use of very sensitive and expensive equipment. ... Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:23 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

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... What is a planet? ... When they finally came up with an answer it had big consequences: The number of planets in our Solar System went from nine to eight! ... Then, in 2005, astronomers found an object in the outer Solar System, called Eris, which they thought was bigger than Pluto. ... However, recently astronomers were able to measure the size of the dwarf planet Eris more accurately and they have discovered that it isn t bigger than Pluto after all they re actually about the same size. ...

... Telescopes . ... The International Conference "Dark Ages and White Nights (Spectroscopy of the CMB)" (June 20-24, 2016) . ... The International Conference "Stars: from collapse to collapse" (October 3-7, 2016) . The traditional annual competition conference of scientific and scientific-engineering papers of the Observatory staff members . ... A session of the Dissertation Council (October 16, 2015) . ... International scientific conference "Large Optical Telescopes" (October, 10-13, 2011) . ...

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... 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. ...

In this presentation I will recap what we know about the dwarf planet Pluto its companion moons, including some recent results from the Division of Planetary Sciences October 2014 meeting (Tucson, AZ). Next I will describe NASA s New Horizons mission, launched in January 2006, who has been traveling across the solar system and will reach the Pluto system in July 2015. ... I will end the presentation with the latest news from the New Horizons mission and its plans after the July 2015 Plutoflyby. ...

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General Information . ... The conference is organized by the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) of Moscow University and the IAU Working group "Site-testing Instruments" . ... Use of site data in telescope operation and adaptive optics. ... Recent conferences on this subject (2007, 2008) demonstrated great interest of the community, hence the need for a new meeting. ... Unlike previous recent conferences, this meeting will cover all aspects of site monitoring for optical/IR astronomy. ...

... 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. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. ... The success of PICARD launch re enforces our high level of appreciation of the quality of the DNEPR launcher and of the professionalism and efficiency of ISC Kosmotras. ... The distinguishing feature of the THEOS launch by a converted SS-18 ICBM (Dnepr LV) is that it was the first ISC Kosmotras mission from the Yasny launch site that headed southward to its Sun-synchronous target orbit. ...