... Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Credit: Stefan Seip and Steffen Bruckner Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Publications with keywords: comet - M57 . ... Comet Holmes Over Hungary . ...

... 2006 May 11 . Comet Meets Ring Nebula: Part I . ... Explanation: As dawn approached on May 8, astronomer Stefan Seip carefully watched Fragment C of broken comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 approach M57 - the Ring Nebula, and faint spiral galaxy IC 1296 . ... At a distance of 200 million light-years, IC 1296 (between comet and ring) is beyond even the Milky Way's boundaries. ... Tomorrow's picture: part II . ... About APOD | ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Last week's Snack talked about how black holes can affect the environment around them in such a way as to be very bright . ... It's a common misconception that black holes always have matter swirling into them. ... As this matter gets closer and closer to the black hole it piles up and a large, fairly flat disk forms. This is called the accretion disk , because matter from this disk accretes (that is, falls in) on the black hole. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . Annual Meeting . ... Registration . ... Online pre-registration for Astronomical Society of the Pacific Annual Meeting is closed. Those wishing to attend the conference proper on Sep. 13-16 can register on-site at the Westin SFO, the conference hotel, at the ASP conference registration table. ... Registration for the meeting includes automatic general membership (at the $55 rate) with the ASP and the new ASP Conference Series publication. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

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SMOV STATUS PLANNING MEETING - 11 APR. ... The spacecraft entered "zero-gyro" safemode at 099/1717z (9Apr97, 1:17 pm EDT), about 85 minutes after the apparent failure of gyro 4. ... SSR diagnostics were run and all remaining science data recovered from the recorder. ... WFPC2 Status - Proceeding nominally with Cycle 6 science and remaining SMOV monitors. ... It was noted that the FOM is not used much at all in the rest of SMOV, but will be used heavily with the onset of NICMOS science. ...