... 2015 November 12 . Kenya Morning Moon, Planets, and Taurid . ... Explanation: On November 8, a waning crescent Moon joined the continuing parade of planets in Earth's early morning skies. Captured here from Amboseli National Park, Kenya, even the overexposed moonlight can't washout brilliant Venus though, lined up near the ecliptic plane with faint Mars and bright Jupiter above. As if Moon and planets aren't enough , a comparably bright Taurid meteor also streaks through the scene. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Our Galaxy . ... Weird and Fun . ... It came from another galaxy: This artistтАЩs impression shows HIP 13044 b, an exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our galaxy from beyond. ... HIP 13044 is one of tens of millions of stars in the тАЬHelmi streamтАЭ, stars that belonged to a dwarf galaxy consumed by our own Milky Way galaxy, some six to nine billion years ago. ... Tweets that mention ESO finds weird doomed planet from another galaxy | ...

... Tracking Saturn's Moons . ... Credit: P. Nicholson ( Cornell ) and NASA Explanation: These five pairs of Hubble Space Telescope images track some of Saturn's moons as they orbit the ringed planet. ... In the top pair, the large bright moon Dione hangs above center while the smaller moons Pandora, Prometheus , and Mimas (top right image) appear near the planet's disk close to the outer ring. By the second and third pair of images, moons Rhea and Epimetheus have joined the dance. ... Neon Saturn . ...

Geotimes -- November 2005 -- Two more moons for "planet" Pluto http://www.geotimes.org/nov05/WebExtra110305.html Web Extra Thursday, November 3, 2005 Two more moons for Pluto When the New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto in July 2015, researchers will have more objects to study than previously thought. In addition to Pluto's confirmed moon Charon, astronomers have detected two more orbiting celestial bodies, which could help reveal how the planet and moon system formed. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Last week, our tour outwards made a stop at our own home planet. Permit me to hold our tour a bit longer, to linger and gaze upon the Moon. ... Complex molecules floated in the water, but the concentration of these compounds wasn't high enough for them to get any further along than making amino acids and the like. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ... Subscribe to the Bad Astronomy Newsletter! ...

God Science Forum Message . ... God and Science | ... Pluto Is Not A Planet, But A Moon Of Neptune. ... Pluto Is Not a Planet, but a Moon of Neptune . 60 years ago, at 1947, the late Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Hilly, said in his book: (The Universe and the Quran), that Pluto is not a planet but a moon of Neptune. ... He said: " Astronomers, however, think that Pluto is a planet, but I say it is merely a moon of Neptune, and actually it is not a planet. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ...

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... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. November 19, 1999 . Mercury And The Sun . ... TRACE Project . Explanation: Just days before the peak of the Leonid meteor shower , skywatchers were offered another astronomical treat as planet Mercury crossed the face of the Sun on November 15. Viewed from planet Earth, a transit of Mercury is not all that rare. ... About APOD > . ...

... Venus, the brightest planet, and Jupiter the second brightest (apart from Mars on very rare occasions) will appear very close together in the Eastern morning sky! ... Venus will be magniute -4.0, and Jupiter mag. ... Callisto, Jupiter's outermost Galilean moon, will then be 7' to the West of Jupiter, so Venus will be just about 4.5 times further away. ... The Last Quarter Moon will be 55 degrees away to the upper right of Venus, with Saturn (mag 0.1) another 16 degrees beyond the Moon. ...

... Go directly to the moons of: . Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto . Go directly to the surface features of Earth's Moon and Mars . Planet & Moons . Pronunciation . ... Mercury . ... Mars: . 2 moons . ... Jupiter: . ... Neptune: . ... 1 moon . ...

Notable changes to The Nine Planets : . ... 1997 Nov 17: added Galileo images of Jupiter's 4 inner moons . ... 1997 Oct 23: added 253 Mathilde page . ... 1996 Nov 17: images of Phobos from Phobos 2 . ... 1996 Jul 10: new info and links to Galileo images of Ganymede . ... 1996 Mar 25: added amateur images to the seeing the solar system page . ... 1995 Jul 28: added a page about possible new satellites of Saturn (including an HST image) . ... 1995 Apr 21: What's New page . ...

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Michele Bannister . Other research . ... The mutual events of Haumea . The dwarf planet Haumea is the parent of a collisional family that includes its two moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka. ... The arid and windswept McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are carpeted with the polygons of patterned ground , a geological formation that is also seen on the northern plains of the planet Mars. ... I worked to understand the influence that buried masses of ice have on the development of patterned ground. ...

... Come to Fiske Elementary School from 7:00 to 9:30 PM on Monday, Nov. 3 2003 if you love astronomy, space, or just looking at the moon and stars with your fellow Fiske friends. ... We will arrange briefing discussions and activities in the Fiske Gym and viewing stations in Fiske Field, providing a look at - and through - telescopes trained on objects ranging from the Moon to planets and galaxies. ... ATMoB members will bring telescopes for viewing of the Moon, Mars, and other spectacular sky objects....

Crater Gassendi . ... I made this drawing was made on the 26th of november 2001. If you compare this one with the previous drawing of Gassendi (below) the differences are clear. ... This drawing was made on the 28th of september 2001. After nearly a full month without observations I had a one hour gap between the thicker clouds. ... This drawing was made on the 29th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 27th of august 2001. ... This drawing was made on the 25th of august 2001. ...

... It was designed to observe the solar wind approaching Earth, from a position near the Lagrangian point L1, and it is part of the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) Initiative . ... The original plan called for "Wind" to approach its final station over two years, undergoing two close encounters with the Moon to boost its speed. ... If however the object is moving , the encounter is not symmetric, and in the end the spacecraft may have gained or lost speed, depending on its trajectory. ...

Four NASA spacecraft and spacecraft from Japan and Europe are planned to be in operation at Mars in early 2004. In addition to the three tracking stations of NASA's Deep Space Network, located in Australia (which CSIRO oversees on behalf of NASA), Spain, and the USA, NASA has enlisted the 64-m Parkes dish of the ATNF to help track these spacecraft during the busy period, November 2003 to February 2004. NASA's Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey probes are already orbiting the planet. ...

... Home Education Classes AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . ... AAA Fall Astronomy Class: Astronomy Basics тАУ October-November 2015 . AAA Winter Astronomy Class: Measuring Distances in Space тАУ Dec 2015 тАУ Feb 2016 . AAA Spring Astronomy Class: The Physics of Astronomy тАУ February - March 2016 . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ...

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION . Seasons, phases of the Moon, eclipses, configurations . 2015: Seasons 2015: Coefficients of the Tchebyshov polynomials, the Moon 2015: Phases of the Moon , perigee and apogee 2015: Eclipses 2015: Configurations of the Sun, Moon and planets ------- 2014: Seasons 2014: Coefficients of the Tchebyshov polynomials, the Moon 2014: Phases of the Moon , perigee and apogee 2014: Eclipses 2014: Configurations of the Sun, ...

... Other planets also have mantles. ... From Lava Lamps to Lava Flows . The urge of the mantle to lose heat can also cause rock to bubble up toward the surface in blobs. ... Because blobs carry hot rock from the interior of the planet toward the surface, they supply volcanoes with lava. ... Convection cycles can be tens of thousands of miles tall, as they are in stars; hundreds of miles tall, as they are in planets; or just a few inches tall, as they are in tea kettles. ...