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... 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 . ...

... 2010 January 26 . Annular Eclipse Over Myanmar . ... The event on January 15 was actually an annular solar eclipse, and the hole was really Earth's Moon, an object whose dark half may appear even darker when compared to the tremendously bright Sun . ... Pictured above was a complete solar annular eclipse sequence as seen above the Ananda Temple in Bagan , Myanmar . ... The next solar eclipse will be a total solar eclipse during 2010 July. ... About APOD | ... A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . Planets . ... December . ... By admin February 15, 2011 Posted in: Planets . Eris with its small moon Dysomnia are portrayed in this artist's impression which also includes Arcturus, Antares and the Zodiacal Light around the Sun. ... On August 24 2006, it happened: Pluto the ninth planet in our Solar System, was relegated, demoted, downgraded, basically was no longer classed as a planet. ... Posted December 4, 2013 at 11:47 AM . ...

... Hot Gas In Hydra A . ... But individual galaxies are too cool to be recorded in this false-color Chandra Observatory X-ray image which shows only the 40 million degree gas that permeates the Hydra A cluster. ... This false-color radio wavelength picture of an expanding stellar debris cloud is the product of one of the largest radio astronomy experiments ever. ... The Q-shaped cloud seen in this false-color X-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory is big ... about 40 light-years across. ...

Top] [Prev] [Next] . ... Last year we have identified a common proper motion companion to the nearby star Gliese 229. This companion has very peculiar colors (blue in the near-IR and very red in the optical). ... We conclude that this is a brown dwarf with an effective temperature of 900 K. Strong bands of refractory oxides and hydrides (TiO, VO, FeH) are conspicuously missing from the Keck optical spectrum - similar to the situation in Jupiter. ... Last update: 10/22/96 11:00:29 ...

... Science . ... Science Users Information > Science Publications > Science Announcements > Real Time Follow-up of Transient Objects From PESSTO . ... Observing Facilities . ... Observing with ESO Telescopes . ... Data Handling and Products . ... ESO Data . ... The Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects ( PESSTO ) provides high-quality, time series optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of optical transients covering a broad range of luminosity, host metallicity and explosion mechanisms. ...

This page gives the name and meaning of the various parameters which can be queried in HyperLeda through SQL requests . ... real . ... actual error on t . ... log 10 of apparent major axis diameter d25 at 25 mag.arcsec -2 (d25 in 0.1') . ... actual error on logd25 . ... Apparent maximum rotation velocity of gas . ... log 10 of apparent corrected diameter (dc in 0.1') . ... total apparent corrected B-magnitude . ... total apparent corrected U-B color . ... Questions: leda@univ-lyon1.fr ...

... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

General Forum Message . Forums: . ... Post . ... How To Find Any Naked-Eye Object . ... The way it works is that you can enter your zip code and an object in the night sky (e.g. 'mars') to get instructions for where to look to find it in the night sky from your location (if the object is currently visible), calculated in real time. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... Asteroid . ... In case you didn't hear about it, which you probably didn't: On Jan. 7, an asteroid 1,000 feet across -- nearly three times the current diameter of Marlon Brando -- barely missed the Earth, which is most likely your planet of residence. ... What if this asteroid had hit the Earth? ... As it happens, the American Astronomical Society was holding a conference in Washington AT THE VERY SAME TIME as the asteroid nearly hit the Earth. ...

... October 4, 1995 . The Sun Spews X-rays . Credit: Yohkoh Soft X-ray Telescope , ISAS , Japan . Explanation: Our Sun is really very hot. The Sun's outer atmosphere is so hot that it emits much light in the X-ray band, which was unexpected. X-rays are usually emitted from objects having a temperature in the millions of degrees, not the mere thousands of degrees of the Sun's surface. The above X-ray picture shows the Sun one particularly active day in August of 1992. ...

Y ou don't need your own Voyager to see the solar system. ... Refer to Sky Telescope or a similar magazine for up to date positions or check one of the several Web sites that show planetary positions. ... You can see 99.99% of the mass of the solar system with no instruments whatsoever. ... Jupiter . ... Mars . ... For $200 you can get a far better optical instrument than Galileo or Newton had. ... Date . ... William Herschel . ... O f course, the solar system has more than just planets and moons. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this magnet object POV file . This is two objects, one is the magnet, and the other is the paint around the magnet. ... The real magnets I based this on had thick paint, and several of them had chips around the edges. ... This is shown in the top magnet in the picture above. The magnet body is 0.75 units in diameter, and protrudes 0.22 units in the -Z direction from the "wall". ... WARNING: This POV object is based on a real object. ...

Next: The BeppoSAX Low-Energy Concentrator Spectrometer Archive at the Space Science Department of ESA . Up: Archiving . ... The Integrated Data Archive System . ... This paper shows aspects of the development of a prototype application to test the feasibility of near real time distribution of Telemetry Packets to the different instrument control centers. ... The FIRST ground segment will be based on the object oriented FIRST Integrated Network and Data Archive System - FINDAS. ...

... We have measured this "redshift" for the pink black holes, and allowed for it in our calculations. ... We see this effect in the emission from gas around these pink black holes, but it is far too small an effect to account for the pinkness. Thus the swirling motions of gas around or into the black holes cannot produc the colour. ... At first we thought that these things were normal blue black holes hidden behind clouds of interstellar dust, that absorbed the blue light and made them appear pink. ...

Astronomers Detect Coolest Radio Star . ... The new radio-star is much smaller and colder than our Sun.€а With a surface temperature not much higher than that of a giant planet, and a size comparable to JupiterтАЩs, it is scarcely visible in optical light.€а Yet the radio flares seen at Arecibo show it must have a strong magnetic field, implying that the same could be true of other similar stars. ...

... Latest Supernovae . ... Sorted by Name For the years covered, 7501 supernovae and 114 extragalactic novae were reported. 378 of these supernovae were named by CBAT, 1714 were given possible supernova designations, and 5409 were not reported to CBAT. 220 supernovae were found in NGC/IC galaxies, 875 were found in named galaxies 343 objects were discovered by amateurs 4 were brighter than 13th Magnitude 208 were brighter than 16th Magnitude 1080 were brighter than 18th Magnitude 1349 ...