... Expansive Comet Holmes . ... The spherical coma of Comet Holmes has swollen to a diameter of over 1.4 million kilometers, making the tenuous, dusty cloud even bigger than the Sun. ... Some auroras can only be seen with a camera. ... M45: The Pleiades Star Cluster . ... This gorgeous image of Orion shows off the constellation's young stars and cosmic clouds of hydrogen gas and dust. ... M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules . ... The Inner Coma of Comet Holmes . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2010 November 8 . 700 Kilometers Below Comet Hartley 2 . Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech, UMD , EPOXI Mission . Explanation: What kind of comet is this? Last week, NASA's robotic EPOXI spacecraft whizzed past Comet 103P/Hartley , also known as Comet Hartley 2, and recorded images and data that are both strange and fascinating. ...

Galileo Crosses Boundary Into Jupiter's Environment . NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Space History Galileo . ...

NASA's Galileo spacecraft radioed confirmation late this week that it has entered Jupiter's environment, crossing over the boundary from interplanetary space into the giant magnetic cocoon around Jupiter called the magnetosphere. ... On Thursday, December 7, Galileo's previously deployed atmospheric probe will plunge into Jupiter's cloud tops at 5:56 p.m. EST and descend into the giant planet on a parachute. ... Jupiter's magnetosphere is like a giant bubble around the planet. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Comets and Asteroids . ... Space Flight . ... April . ... Posted on January 7, 2016 | ... Continue Reading.. Posted on June 29, 2015 | ... No Comments In November 2014, the European Space AgencyтАЩs washing-machine-sized investigation and analysis lander lab Philae, did something that no other automated probe had ever done before, it successfully landed on a [ ] . ... No Comments Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) was discovered in August 2014. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft images Comet 103P/Hartley . The rendezvous with the comet is the third mission for the Deep Impact spacecraft. ... Images from the Deep Impact flyby revealed a peanut-shaped Comet 103P/Hartley belching jets of poisonous gases. ... The Ball Aerospace-built Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft successfully completed another т??firstт?? for NASA November 4 when its onboard cameras captured spectacular images of Comet 103P/Hartley as part of the EPOXI mission. ...

... Comet Ikeya-Zhang, designated C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang), is named after Kaoru Ikeya of Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, and Daqing Zhang of Henan province, China, who independently discovered it on the night of 1 February 2002. A preliminary orbit reported the following day indicated that it would come moderately close to both the Earth and the Sun and that it might become visible to the naked eye during late March and April 2002. ... Bailey, M.E., Clube, S.V.M. and Napier, W.M. The Origin of Comets . ...

... Close What Happened to Comet Holmes? November 15, 2007 by J. Kelly Beatty Click here to get a sky chart and simple instructions for finding Comet Holmes in the sky. ... The tiny black square indicates the area around the nucleus imaged three days later by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... Acquired on November 4, 2007, this Hubble Space Telescope view of Comet Holmes's nucleus is 10 wide, about 7,500 miles at the comet's distance. Even HST's powerful camera cannot resolve the 2-mile-wide nucleus. ...

Vega Stamps . International project VEGA was managed by Space Research Institute (IKI) . ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 spacecraft were developed by Babakin Space Center and fabricated by Lavochkin Association in Khimki, Moscow region. ... VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 have been the part of the international fleet to Halley's comet, that also included Giotto mission of European Space Agency (ESA) and Sakigake and Suisei by Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan. ... Vega 1 . ...

... The awsome spectacle of a brilliant comet, with its long ghostly tail streaming behind it, is a rare event. ... Only one other comet, Comet Halley, was seen so far from the Sun, giving scientists an opportunity to watch it as it slowly warmed up and sprouted a tail. ... Comets are the Rip Van Winkles of the solar system -- mini-worlds that have changed little during their 4.5-billion-year nap far from the Sun. ... Observing Comets . ... Once, comets inhabited the entire solar system. ...

Asteroid 2005 YU55 was listed on NASA's "Sentry Risk Page" as having as small (about one in 10 million) chance of hitting the Earth in the next century. We observed this asteroid with the Arecibo Planetary Radar system on April 19-23 2010. ... We obtained radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 at 11 PM local time on 2011 Nov 9 using the Arecibo Observatory Planetary Radar System in Puerto Rico and the Robert W. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. ... Last modified 2011 November 14 . ...

MAIN PAGE . ... Nova Cygni August 1975! ... 1975/76: Comet West! ... Dr. Richard West (4th from left) & AAL members visiting SES Betzdorf on occasion of our club's 25th anniversary - October 1996 . Comet West Information . ... It was the brightest comet visible from Earth since Comet West in 1976. ... 1997: Comet Hale-Bopp! ... Thus Comet Hale-Bopp never got closer to Earth than Earth gets to the Sun. ... Comet Hale-Bopp JPL Page . ... 1999: Total solar eclipse over Luxembourg! ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... Astronomers have captured this amazing new space photograph showing the birth of a Solar System! Earth and the other seven planets of our Solar System are not alone in the Universe. Over 1800 planets have been discovered around distant stars so far, and this number is rising! Stars and planets form when a giant cloud of cosmic dust in space collapses in on itself. ...

... Comments, Opinions Publications Dnepr Program . Dnepr launch record 17 August 2011. Cluster Launch of Dnepr LV 22 August 2013 KOMPSAT-5 Launch 21 November 2013. ... The Sych-2 satellite is being developed as a part of the space optical-range Earth observation system by the State Design Office of Yuzhnoye and built by the Industrial Association Yuzhny Machine Building Plant in cooperation w ith other space industry entities upon the state order of the National Space Agency of Ukraine . ...

... John Herschel Glenn, Jr. ... Glenn also holds the Navy Unit Commendation for service in Korea, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the China Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy's Astronaut Wings, the Marine Corps' Astronaut Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. ...

... S.P. KOROLEV ROCKET AND SPACE CORPORATION ENERGIA . ... OAO RSC "Energia" . ... News . ... A manned transportation spacecraft Soyuz TMA-11M has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). ... The final flight operations in the course of the spacecraft rendezvous and docking with the space station were supervised by the State Commission for manned systems flight tests and the Technical Manager for flight tests of manned space systems, the RSC Energia President and General Designer V.A. Lopota....

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... Research . ... The major problem in HVC research is the unknown distance towards most of the HVCs. ... Thilker et al. (2004) used the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) to map an area of $7^{\circ} \times 7^{\circ}$ around M31 in H i . They discovered a population of HVCs located within a projected distance of about $50~\mathrm{kpc}$ from M31. ... 2004). ... The remaining HVCs around M31 are isolated in position and velocity and may represent primordial, dark-matter-dominated clouds. ...

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