Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Inner Coma of Comet Holmes . ... Credit Copyright: Gianluca Masi (The Virtual Telescope) Explanation: What's happening to Comet Holmes? The rare comet remains visible to the unaided eyes of northern observers as an unusual small puff ball in the constellation of Perseus . ... The above image of Comet Holmes was made with a small automated 0.38-meter telescope hirable over the web for a small fee. ... Publications with keywords: comet Holmes - Coma . ...

. True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . Images show regions used to extract spectra . Regions with red strikes are excluded . Background was subtracted from a region around or close to the SNR. Back to SNR J0509.5-6731 Index . Chandra Supernova Remnant Catalog . Main Page | Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR . True Color Image Gallery: Galactic SNR | Magellanic Cloud SNR .

... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

Closest to Jupiter (inward of the Galilean moons) are the four small moons: . Metis , . ... Metis ( "MEE tis" ) is the innermost of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit : 128,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 40 km mass : 9.56e16 kg . ... Metis and Adrastea lie within Jupiter's main ring. ... Galileo "family portrait" of Jupiter's 4 inner moons . ... Adrastea ("a DRAS tee uh") is the second of Jupiter's known satellites: orbit : 129,000 km from Jupiter diameter : 20 km (23 x 20 x 15) mass : 1.91e16 kg . ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... Basically, they were being shed in two phases: a slow dense wind, which was shaped like a squashed sphere, and a fast lower density wind, which swept up the slower wind. ... When we got the Hubble images, we were pretty surprised to see a ring of gas around the supernova. ... I have heard people refer to it as ``Plait's star'' which I'll admit is pretty cool. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

Supernova 1987A in LMC . One day in 1987, an astronomer by the name of Ian Shelton was making observations of the Tarantula Nebula in Large Magellanic cloud at Las Campanas Observatory, and he noticed something strange on his image. ... SN 1987A got as bright as 2.7, the only other recent SN even to come close was 1885A in M31 which got up to mag 6. ... Mag 4.5 . ... IAUC 4318 2/25/87 Type II? ... IAUC 7354 2/1/00 New structure in the inner ring . ... IAUC 7360 2/7/00 HST observation of new spot . ...

Apr 13 2015 Scutum - The Shield IC 1287 31mmT5 Nebula R W/ OIII ,EF,EL, NEB DET AROUND BRTER *,SOME NEB SUSP FURTHER OUT, OIII HELPS,R=F Sep 05 2007 31 IC 1295 12mmT4 17mmT4 Planetary Neb 3b+2 MF,PL,OVAL,PATCHY,NO C*,SEVERAL F*'S IN NEB ,SOME CLOSE TO CENTER, OIII HELPS,DARK INNER HOLE,BREAK IN EDGES,PAIR=SAND2-374,R=F W/ OIII ,MB,ML,OVAL,PATHC,SHISB,PARCHY AREAS,FEW F*'S IN NEB ,R=E Aug 23 2009 31 Sep 05 ...