... 2011 September 20 . Kepler-16b: A Planet with Two Suns . Illustrated Video Credit: NASA , JPL-Caltech , T. Pyle; Acknowledgement: djxatlanta . ... Such might be a common adage from beings floating in the atmosphere of Kepler 16b , a planet recently discovered by the space-based Kepler satellite. ... The frequent eclipses have given Kepler 16b the most accurate mass and radius determination for a planet outside our Solar System. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

... Globular cluster NGC 2808, elliptical galaxy NGC 2986, and the Sextans Dwarf . ... Astronomers recently discovered brown dwarfs of only a few hundred degrees fahrenheit, which seems about the same temperature as some planets. So what is the difference between a brown dwarf and a planet? ... RELATED TOPICS: BROWN DWARFS . This is an excellent question, and it s one that even astronomers have a hard time agreeing on. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Discover | ...

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. ...

... Kepler 16b: A Planet with Two Suns . ... 20.09.2011 . ... Credit Copyright: NASA , JPL-Caltech , T. Pyle; Acknowledgement: djxatlanta Explanation: If you stay up long enough, you can watch both suns set. Such might be a common adage from beings floating in the atmosphere of Kepler 16b , a planet recently discovered by the space-based Kepler satellite. ... Publications with keywords: extrasolar planet - kepler . ... APOD: 2011 December 7 Kepler 22b: An Almost Earth Orbiting an Almost Sun . ...

Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 . This page is devoted to information on Supernova 2002fk in NGC 1309 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main page . Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the updates and links web pages. ... 2002/09/19.848 . ... JM Llapasset image . ... 13.0 . ... Josep M. Bosch . ... Josep M. Bosch image . ... vsnet-campaign-sn 476 ] SN 2002fk in NGC 1309 . ...

Dr John Butler making adjustments to the recently restored . Calver 18-inch telescope at the Armagh Observatory. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center recently named an asteroid after Armagh astronomer, Dr John Butler. ... Christopher John Butler (b. 1940) has worked on cool stars, the effects of solar variability on climate, and preserving Armagh Observatory's scientific heritage for future generations. ... John Butler was born in Cambridgeshire. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Well let me tell you the link?. there is a dwarf planet out there in our Solar System which could claim to have a similarity to rugby. That dwarf planet is Haumea which is in the shape of an ellipsoid (oval like a rugby ball). ... Haumea (pronounced how-MAY-ah) is the fifth dwarf planet coming after Pluto, Eris, Ceres and Makemake. ... Named after the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth Haumea had quite a controversial discovery. ...

Mercury Spring 2011 Table of Contents . ... This artist's concept shows the recently discovered planet Gliese 581g. It has a 37-day orbit right in the middle of the star's habitable zone, is only three to four times the mass of Earth, and has a diameter 1.2 to 1.4 times that of Earth. Artwork courtesy NASA / Lynette Cook. Two years after the launch of NASA s Kepler mission, the discovery of extrasolar planets has turned from a trickle into a torrent. ...

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... The study of extra solar planets will be one of the most important areas of research in astronomy in this century. ... The first planets outside the solar system were found in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR B1257+12 by Alex Wolszczan at the Arecibo Observatory . ... Three space missions based on this principle (MOST, COROT and Kepler ) have already been launched or approved, and have the last one at least has the potential to find Earth-sized planets. ... SIM ( NASA ) is one of such missions...

... It contains: electromagnetic radiation (photons); hot plasma (electrons, protons and other ions) a.k.a. the solar wind ; cosmic rays; microscopic dust particles; and magnetic fields (primarily the Sun's). W hile the Sun 's radiation is obvious, the other components of the interplanetary medium were not discovered until very recently. ... Within a few solar radii of the Sun the magnetic field determines the flow of the solar wind; much of the flow is trapped in magnetic loops. ... Sun .. ...

... By means of deep optical images obtained at the Special Astrophysical Observatory 6-m telescope it was discovered that some Seyfert galaxies that were earlier considered to be non-interacting objects displayed signatures of elongated tidal envelopes belonging to satellite debris. ... Our results suggest that statistic studies based on popular imaging surveys (for example SDSS) can lead to an underestimation of the fraction of minor mergers among galaxies with active nuclei (AGN). ...

Orange Pulsar Meeting . ... All talks were scheduled for 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes discussion time . ... Discovering Radio Pulsars in Fermi Gamma-ray Sources . ... Discussion . ... Detecting the Gravitational Wave Background with Pulsar Timing . ... Gravitational wave science with pulsar timing . ... Observation of radio loud pulsars with the Fermi-LAT telescope . ... Linear acceleration emission in radio pulsars . ... Timing solutions for 177 Parkes pulsars . ... The ANDS-ATNF Data Archive . ...

... Deutsch . ... When a woman is pregnant, she's has to go for an ultrasound, where doctors look into her womb to check on the baby growing inside. Astronomers recently performed similar observations on a nearby star by accident! While looking into the gassy disk surrounding the star, they were surprised to see a baby planet growing inside! For the first time a planet has been seen at such an early stage of its life. ... This giant planet is over 10,000 times larger than Earth! ...

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Signs Constellations Of The Zodiac . Articles | ... The band of the zodiac is some sixteen degrees wide, extending about eight degrees north and south of what's called the ecliptic -- the Sun's path through the stars. ... Since that time, the March equinox Sun has shifted about thirty degrees westward through the constellations of the zodiac. ... While signs neatly extend eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic, aligning with the borders of the zodiac, constellations do no such thing. ...

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... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Regularity and chaos for planetary orbits in binaries D. Benest Observatoire de Nice, Nice, France 1. ... Previous papers showed that stable planetary orbits, around either the lightest or the heaviest component of several nearby binary systems, exist up to distances from their primary of the order of more than half the binary's periastron sep­ aration. ... Chaos: bounded or sticky? It is now well­known that planetary dynamics may include some proportion of chaos. ...

... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... The drawing is not to scale. ... The Hubble Space Telescope , using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. ...