... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... NASA , NSF Explanation: Is our Earth unique? In continuing efforts to answer this question, astronomers have now discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant normal star. ... Slight, fast, but regular wobbles of nearby small M - dwarf star Gliese 876 showed evidence for a planet with a likely mass slightly higher than a minimum six times the mass of Earth. ... Publications with keywords: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . Publications with words: planets - Earth - Gliese 876 . ...

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 | ...

Astronomers are proposing that there are now twelve planets in our solar system. ... In particular, the fact that the object designated 2003 UB313 is larger than Pluto dictates either that there are more than nine planets or that Pluto should not count as a planet at all. ... Soon after, in August that year, images of the new "planet" were obtained with the Faulkes Telescope in Hawaii, controlled remotely from Armagh by Observatory summer student Elizabeth Connolly. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... This page has images and links that George Noory and I discussed on the Coast to Coast AM radio show on Friday night, July 29, 2005. ... Two new objects were announced today, and both are big, maybe as big as Pluto. One is almost certainly bigger than Pluto! ... I've been saying for years that we will almost certainly find something bigger than Pluto out there in the dark, cold reaches of our solar system (I've said so on Coast to Coast several times, actually). ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Sky this Month . ... Star Atlas . ... exoplanets . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Fluffy" exoplanet raises questions . Astronomers ponder how a newly discovered low-density super-giant planet formed. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

Your First Telescope . Articles | ... Next to "What telescope should I buy?" this is the most common question I usually get asked. ... What you can see depends on a lot of factors, including the type of telescope you bought, the quality of your local seeing conditions, and your level of skill. ... As a result, an experienced observer might enjoy deep sky objects in an 80 mm refractor, while a beginner with a light bucket next door is still struggling to find the Orion Nebula. ...

... Neptune is smaller in diameter but larger in mass than Uranus . ... An international dispute arose between the English and French (though not, apparently between Adams and Le Verrier personally) over priority and the right to name the new planet; they are now jointly credited with Neptune's discovery. ... A t the time of the Voyager encounter, Neptune's most prominent feature was the Great Dark Spot (left) in the southern hemisphere. ... more Neptune images . ... What happened to the Great Dark Spot...

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 . ...

... CREO plans to produce an optical tape storage system with a capacity of 1000 GBytes per tape. ... The drive fits in one rack and average power consumption is 1000 W single phase. ... Hence the drive will just do the job if we store raw data, and with a moderate amount of data compression before storage, we will get a comfortable margin. ... We were concerned about drive reliability. ... The Exabyte 8 mm drives currently available write 2 GByte at a maximum data rate of 0.25 MByte/second. ...

Class 1 Introduction, Background History of Modern Astronomy The Night Sky, Eclipses and the Seasons Kepler's Laws Newtonian Gravity General Relativity Matter and Light Telescopes Class 2 Solar System Characteristics Formation Exosolar Planets Class 3 Stars The Sun Stellar Evolution of Low and High Mass Stars Deaths of Stars Exotic Stars Class 4 Galaxies Galaxy Classification Formation of Galaxies Galactic Evolution ... So far, one planet has been studied by this method. ...

I'm glad you're interested in collaborating on the ConcepTests for Astronomy WWW database project! ... Paul . ... a) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . b) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, low temperature . c) high luminosity, low temperature to low luminosity, high temperature . d) high luminosity, high temperature to low luminosity high temperature. ... Back to Paul Green's Peer Instruction page. ... Back to Paul Green's HomePage . ...

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Next: SDFITS: A Standard for Storage and Interchange of Single Dish Data . ... Previous: On-line Access to Very Large Catalogues . ... The services developed by the Centre de Donn?es astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS) will play a major role in the cross-identification of objects from large surveys. ... The ESO/CDS data mining project, and the AstroGLU discovery tool, aim at providing advanced tools for cross-identification and access to distributed, heterogeneous information. ... 2000). ...

... Contact A Problem of an estimation of accuracy of the asteroid CCD observations . The Minor Planet Center supported by the Interntional Astronomical Union is the main office for keeping observational data of the small Solar System bodies and their investigations. ... At Pulkovo Observatory we are estimating an accuracy of the CCD asteroid observations obtained by amateurs and professional astronomers all over the World using the MPC database. ...

... Catalog . Publications . ... Koposov, S., Glushkova, E., Zolotukhin, I. 2008: Automated search for Galactic star clusters in large multiband surveys. ... BibTeX entry ] . ... Glushkova, E.V., Zabolotskikh, M.V., Koposov, S.E., Spiridonova, O.I, Vlasyuk, V.V., Rastorguev, A. S. 2010: Photometry of the poorly studied galactic open star clusters King 13, King 18, King 19, King 20, NGC 136, and NGC 7245 , Astronomy Letters, 36, 75 . ...

... Over the first 4 years, its X-ray telescopes eROSITA and ART-XC will survey the whole sky with a record sensitivity in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. ... The goal of the second international Spectrum-RG conference is to discuss the different scientific topics addressed by the mission, synergies with surveys at other wavelengths, and requirements to follow-up observations.Contributed talks and poster presentations are invited on the topics related to the SRG science goals. ... Active galactic nuclei . ...

... Освоение космоса (Модератор: Chepurny ) > . E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope) . ... Благодарностей: 0 . ... 13 Май 2010, 12:14:53 ? Европейский чрезвычайно большой телескоп" (European Extremely Large Telescope - E-ELT) будет построен в горах пустыни Атакама, объявила на днях Европейская южная обсерватория. ... Ответ #1 : 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 ? ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 12:29:34 Field of view: 10 arcminute diameter . ... Цитата: ds40a от 13 Май 2010, 13:28:02 И я о том-же. ...