... 2015 November 26 . Planets of the Morning . Image Credit Copyright : Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN ) . ... Taken before dawn it traces the ecliptic with a line-up familiar to November's early morning risers. ... Of course the planets are immersed in the faint glow of zodiacal light, visible from the dark site rising at an angle from the horizon. Sometimes known as the false dawn, it's no accident the zodiacal light and planets both lie along the ecliptic . ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Planets of the Morning . ... 26.11.2015 . ... Credit Copyright: Yuri Beletsky ( Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory , TWAN ) Explanation: Planet Earth's horizon stretches across this recent Solar System group portrait, seen from the southern hemisphere's Las Campanas Observatory. Taken before dawn it traces the ecliptic with a line-up familiar to November's early morning risers. ... November 2015 . ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Aurora . ... Corona . Fireballs . ... Zodiacal Light . ... The first thing to do is get acquainted with what the night sky looks like. ... The National Schools Observatory web site has very good horizon views of the sky for the current night. ... If the object is moving slowly across the sky then it may be one of the larger satellites. ... Cloudbait Observatory - October 2002 . ... October 2003 Aurora at Armagh . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 2, 2016 | 6 Comments For those of you that are still bearing the psychological scars from PlutoтАЩs demotion from planet to dwarf planet a decade ago, here is news that may add salt to [ ] . Continue Reading.. Posted on December 1, 2015 | ... 2 Comments It is widely accepted that our Solar System was created about 4.6 billion years ago based on dating of meteorites. ...

... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horтАж . Sidebar Left . ... Title: The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset . Description: It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ... The Zodiacal light seen above the western horizon nearly two hours after sunset It is produced by light scattered from interplanetary dust near the plane of rotation of the planets around the Sun. ...

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... Kepler is a mission designed to detect and characterize Earth-sized planets around solar-like stars. The sizes of the planets are determined from the decrease in light from a star that occurs during planetary transits, and the orbital period is determined from the repeatability of the transits. ... These goals are accomplished by continuously and simultaneously monitoring a single field of 140,000 stars for evidence of brightness changes caused by transits of Earth-sized or larger planets. ...

... 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) ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : "We're light years more advanced than our competition!" ... Even the closest astronomical object, the Moon, is 400,000 kilometers away! ... A beam of light will travel 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers in one year. This distance is defined as a light year ; the distance light travels in a year. ... This is another example of Bad Astronomy; like a light year, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time (to be specific, it equals 3.26 light years) . ...

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... NASA's Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, reached its "First Light" flight milestone during the early morning hours of May 26, when the aircraft's telescope and attached infrared camera collected light from celestial . targets for the first time at altitude. ... the Faint Object infraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST). ... For comparison, the human eye sees light with wavelengths between 0.4 and 0.7 microns.) ...

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