... The Case of the Very Dusty Binary Star . ... Credit Copyright: Lynette Cook Explanation: For astronomers , close binary star system BD+20 307 originally stood out because it is extremely dusty. A substantial amount of warm dust surrounding it causes the system to appear exceptionally bright at infrared wavelengths. ... Publications with keywords: binary star - dust - planets . Publications with words: binary star - dust - planets . ... Stars in a Dusty Sky . ... Orion in Gas, Dust, and Stars . ...

... 2008 September 25 . The Case of the Very Dusty Binary Star . ... Explanation: For astronomers , close binary star system BD+20 307 originally stood out because it is extremely dusty. A substantial amount of warm dust surrounding it causes the system to appear exceptionally bright at infrared wavelengths. ... The large amount of warm dust is likely the debris from a relatively recent collision of planet-sized objects on the scale of, say, Earth and Venus, in the BD+20 307 system. ...

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... The newly discovered ?mega-Earth? ... Its sibling, the lava world Kepler-10b, is in the background (the two planets? proximity is grossly exaggerated) .€а Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 29 000 km, 2.3 times as large as Earth, and weighs 17 times as much. ... The first mega-earth to be discovered is Kepler-10c which orbits a star lying about 560 light years from the Sun in the constellation Draco. ... Astronomers Find a New Type of Planet: The ?Mega-Earth? ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . An artistтАЩs impression of the binary UZ For and planet . ... A team of astronomers, including Dr Gavin Ramsay of the Armagh Observatory, has found evidence that suggests the existence of an extraordinary planetary system. Two giant planets appear to be revolving at some distance around a compact, interacting stellar binary known as UZ For, which comprises two small stars orbiting very closely one about the other. ...

... B. Vicini, A. Natta, A. Marconi, L. Testi, D. Hollenbach, B.T. Draine . 1998, A&A, in press . ... 1998, ApJ, in press . ... L. Testi, F. Palla, A. Natta . ... Francesco Palla . 1998, The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Evolution, eds. C.J. Lada and N. Kylafis, in press . ... 1998, in "The Molecular Astrophysics of Stars and Galaxies - A Volume Honouring Alexander Dalgarno", edited by T. W. Hartquist and D. A. Williams, Oxford University Press, in press . ... Star Formation Group . ...

My research efforts have focused on three areas which are: . More than 200 extrasolar planets have been discovered around relatively nearby stars, primarily through the Doppler line shifts owing to the reflex motions of their host stars, and more recently through transits of some planets across the face of the host stars. ... Gravitational microlensing provides a novel technique to look for planets around lens stars, and this is the only technique currently capable of detecting Earth-mass planets. ...

Harvest Moon . ... The Harvest Moon refers to the Full Moon that comes closest to the autumnal equinox, or the first day of autumn. Depending on the year, the Harvest Moon can fall anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after the equinox, which arrives annually on or near September 23. ... It was once common knowledge that at the vicinity of Full Moon, the Moon rises around sunset, shines all night long and sets around sunrise. ... Re-published on Astronomy Net with permission of the author. ...

The stability of planetary systems after stellar mass loss : Prospects for White Dwarf planets and pollution Alexander James Mustill1*, Dimitri Veras2, Eva Villaver3, Amy Bonsor4, Boris GДnsicke2, Mark Wyatt 1 2 5 Lund Observatory ... 1TL, United Kingdom 5 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, CB3 9ET, UK *alex@astro.lu.se Stars lose mass as they evolve to become white dwarfs ( WDs ), and this mass loss can induce ...

... Running Rings Around a Planet . ... Saturn's delicate rings have caught human eyes for over three centuries. ... Now we know, thanks to the Voyager space probes, that Saturn's rings consist of thousands of "ringlets," each made of chunks of ice ranging in size from dust to boulders [see "Rally Around the Ring," March/April 1995, p. 10]. ... The appearance of Saturn's rings to us ground-hugging Terrans is changing constantly. ... Saturn's diameter is 120,000 kilometers, so how large are the rings? ...

ATNF Home . ... About ATNF overview . ... Australia Telescope Steering Committee . ... Australia Telescope User Committee . ... Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory . ... Parkes radio telescope . ... ATCA | ... Visiting Parkes radio telescope . ... Parkes radio telescope webcam . ... The Australia Telescope National Facility Colloquium . ... Binaries consisting of a magnetic white dwarf in near synchronous rotation . ... white dwarf planetary systems and present a simple model to predict radio flux . ...

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K?nigl, A. & Salmeron, R. 2010. ... K?nigl, A., Salmeron, R. & Wardle, M. 2010. ... Wind-driving protostellar accretion discs - I. Formulation and parameter constraints . ... Magnetorotational instability in protoplanetary discs: The effect of dust grains . Salmeron, R., K?nigl, A. & Wardle, M. 2007. ... Magnetorotational instability in protoplanetary discs . ... Magnetorotational instability in dusty protostellar discs. ... Magnetorotational instability in protostellar discs . ...

... Dept. for Physics of Stars&Galaxies . ... Astronomical Calendar . ... History of MAO . ... БЂ“ 2013. ... Zakhozhay O. and Vorobyov E.I. The signatures of disk fragmentation in spectral energy distributions // Proceedings of the conference Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, November 12-16, 2012. ... Zakhozhay O.V., Vorobyov E.I. Spectral energy distributions of fragmenting protostellar disks // Formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets Proceedings IAU Symposium No....

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/ . ...

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, . ...

T he Nine Planets is a collection of information about our Solar System intended for a general audience with little technical background. ... T his document consists of about 90 WWW "pages", one page for each major body in the Solar System. ... if the object has satellites then its page has a table of data on them and links to their pages, . ... To visit the next body in an ordered traversal of the solar system choose the link immediately to the right of the name of the current page. ...

... R1930 Date Received: 2004-Feb-02 18:39:45 Technical Page Proposal Type: General Category: Observation Category: Total Time Requested: Prop osal Title: ABSTRACT: Regular Planetary Radar Solar System 24 Hours Radar Observations of Mercury during the Summer 2004 Conjunction This is a prop osal to conduct a short campaign of S-band radar observations of Mercury in the summer of 2004. ... Part of the observing run. ...

The Database of Close Binary Systems . ... Team . ... This web-based interactive database is being developed and maintained by a team at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of the Moscow State University . The project is an on-line extension of our catalogue on "Highly Evolved Close Binary Stars" (volumes I, II) published by Gordon and Breach in 1996. As of September 2009, the database (both the software and the content) is in its development/testing phase. ...