... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Weekend Visits to the ALMA OSF . ... ESO Acronyms . ... Images . ... Usage of ESO Images and Videos . ... The Comet€аMcNaught€а2007 . ... Annotated image from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) showing the dust trap in the disc that surrounds the system Oph-IRS 48. The dust trap provides a safe haven for the tiny dust particles in the disc, allowing them to clump together and grow to sizes that allow them to survive on their own. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... ALMA discovers comet factory . The dust trap found around a young star solves the mystery about how dust particles can grow in size. ... But in the near future, ALMA will be able to observe dust traps closer to their parent stars, where the same mechanisms are at work. ... 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. ...

... Earth, Clouds, Sky, Comet . ... Does a comet's dust tail always orbit behind it? ... Hale-Bopp and Andromeda . ... Which is closer: the comet or the galaxy? ... Presently, for denizens of the Earth's northern hemisphere, this bright comet is certainly a lovely and inspiring sight -- visible here crowning the sky above Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy on March 20. ... Undaunted by the artificial glow from one of the most famous urban skylines on Earth, comet Hale-Bopp shines above the city of New York, USA. ...

... April 3, 1997 . Earth, Clouds, Sky, Comet . ... Explanation : Does a comet's dust tail always orbit behind it? ... Small ice and dust particles expelled by the comet, however, are literally pushed around by sunlight. ... When the comet is headed inward, sunlight slows down small particles so they orbit behind the comet. When the comet is headed back out though, sunlight speeds them up, so small particles orbit in front of the comet. ... About APOD > . ...

... An estimate the rotation period of cometary nuclei is important for understanding and describing the physical processes of the cometary activity. Unfortunately, the measurements of the rotation periods of the comet nucleus depend on the model assumptions and it is one of the main reasons for the scatter of the estimates given in various articles for a given comet. ... Right: the image of the comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 obtained at the 6-m telescope. ...

Various types of stars have dust around them. In the well known case of the Pleiades the dust around the stars is unrelated to the stars, and is instead dust from an interstellar cloud that the Pleiades cluster has drifted into on its way through the galactic disk. ... The dust in interstellar space is observed in a variety of ways: due to its passive absorption of starlight ("extinction"), by its production of polarization in starlight, and then at long wavelengths due to its thermal radiation. ...

The Leonid meteors are set to make their annual return over the interval from 13th to 22nd November. ... During each close approach to the Sun, the comet sheds a stream of dust and small particles. ... This year is rather unusual, though, in that the Earth will come close to the edges of two of the more coherent dense dust trails, resulting in two main meteor showers, one on the Thursday, 13th November and the other on Wednesday, 19th November. ... See also: Leonid Meteors Site . ...

... Solar System . ... Comets and Asteroids . ... 8 Comments Newly discovered small Solar System body V774104 may seem just another tiny, cold and remote world beyond Neptune but this is an important finding as its mere existence suggests that [ ] . Continue Reading.. ... 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 [ ] . ...

Classroom Activity: A Viewgraph Comet . ... This will simulate the Earth's orbit around the Sun. ... Draw several comets along the path with their tails pointing away from the Sun. ... You can create other viewgraphs that have a smaller scale and show several comet orbits or constellations. ... Show how the Earth's orbit is almost circular compared to the comet's. Explain that the Sun is at the focus of the orbits of the planets, asteroids, and comets. ... Actually, comets have two tails. ...

Comets are small, fragile, irregularly shaped bodies composed of a mixture of non-volatile grains and frozen gases. ... Most become visible, even in telescopes, only when they get near enough to the Sun for the Sun's radiation to start subliming the volatile gases, which in turn blow away small bits of the solid material. ... Nearly 100 known comets have periods (the time it takes them to make one complete trip around the Sun) five to seven Earth years in length. ...

. This color image was obtained with Fuji color film (Super Plus 400) in focal plane of the 70-cm reflector (F = 27 m) at Lisniki Observatory by A.M.Evtushevsky. Data and time of observation: April 27, 1997, 21:25 LT. Comet-Earth distance: 1.7 a.u. Time of exposure: 10 min. Field of view : 3 minutes of arc. Distance between shells, in average: 15 000 km. Diameter of bright coma in the picture center: of about 5 000 km. Last updated: January, 2005.

... Comet Animation . ... Comet structures are diverse and very dynamic, but they all develop a surrounding cloud of diffuse material, called a coma, that usually grows in size and brightness as the comet approaches the Sun. ... As comets approach the Sun they develop enormous tails of luminous material that extend for millions of kilometers from the head, away from the Sun. ... The evaporated molecules boil off and carry small solid particles with them, forming the comet's coma of gas and dust. ...

NATIONAL ASTRONOMY AND IONOSPHERE CENTER . ... Astronomy . ... Visitor Center . ... Comets . ... Observing conditions were favorable at Arecibo July 5-15 2001, and observing time for both spectroscopy of 18-cm OH lines and S-band radar observations were arranged. The comet nucleus was observed to split into two pieces on April 30. ... Because the comet passed within 0.25 AU of the Earth in early July, when it was visible from Arecibo Observatory, it was fairly well suited to radar observation. ...

... Prof. J. Hough, dean of Physical Sciences Dept. ... Dr. T. Gledhill . ... PDF file ] . Gledhill T.M., Takami M. (2001) Scattered light models of the dust shell around HD 179821. ... Hough J.H., Aitken D.K. (2003) Polarimetry in the infrared: what can be learnd? Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer , v.79-80, p.733-740. ... Lucas P.W. (2003) Computation of light scattering in young stellar objects. ... 2003) Scattering of light from atmospheric ice analogues. ...

Check out the new images (Jan 18-25) and (Jan 26-Feb 05) of the comet by Rob McNaught. ... Every few years a comet becomes bright enough to be easily seen with the naked eye but only every decade or so are these comparable with comets like Halley. ... Before Jan 13, the comet is not visible in the Australian sky after sunset. ... SOHO images . ... On Jan 12 at approximately 09:00 UT (8pm NSW time), comet C/2006 P1 McNaught appears at the 11 o'clock position in the images. ... STEREO images . ...

... Copyrightї1997 Bob Yen (byen@ix.netcom.com) (http://www.comet-track.com/hb/hb.html) . ... Information on Comet Hale-Bopp for the Non-Astronomer Hale-Bopp rotates about twice a day (3/14/97) . ... The Comet Observation Home Page was been selected to receive the Griffith Observatory Star Award for the week of February 2 - 8, 1997 for excellence in promoting astronomy to the public through the World Wide Web. ... Typically, about 1,000 individual users/computers access this page every day. ...

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